Example sentences of "[prep] [subord] it [modal v] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | I turned my head away quickly , but I had had time to take in another feature — his rather sharp , small nose that looked as if it might have been broken in a boxing match . |
| 2 | It had a sort of changing-room summer house , and a brick building that looked hopefully as if it might have something to do with heating the water . |
| 3 | And the Ode to Duty , with its opening lines sounds as if it might have been written by an Old Testament Prophet . |
| 4 | He was thankful she was n't wearing boots but her hair had disappeared again under an awful black felt hat that looked as if it might have been her father 's , and when she handed her coat in at the cloakroom she kept the hat on . |
| 5 | The river immediately floated my free legs away as if it would have them , and I had to grab the wire fiercely to avoid going with the current . |
| 6 | In a feeble effort at self-preservation , I put up one arm to ward off a blow , but the arm fell down as if it would have nothing to do with such an idea . |
| 7 | The best new piece of equipment at the Royal Welsh Show this week suitable for upland farming conditions sounded as if it should have four legs rather than four wheels . |
| 8 | It looked as if it should have broken , amongst the pebbles in Adam 's bag . |
| 9 | It sounds as if it should have a K usually most words if you 're not sure and they start with a c sound put a C . |
| 10 | My head rang with that particular vibration of accidental pain , a tintinnabulating effect that always feels as if it should have preceded its cause — by way of a warning . |
| 11 | Looks as if it should have been done hours ago , if you ask me . |
| 12 | MITI had hoped to get the legislation through by next month , but it now looks as if it will have to wait until autumn before the ministries have talked it over . |
| 13 | Maybe what I did was an act of complicity , or looked as if it could have been . |
| 14 | The cost of each accident was then assessed and a judgement made on whether it would have been cost effective to prevent it . |
| 15 | There 's no point deliberating on whether it should have happened or not . |
| 16 | It gave the name of a contact point to follow up information , although some of us had reservations about whether it should have been the person who was actually quoted in the press release |
| 17 | There was no danger : the crowd would have blown his car across if it could have . |