Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] i [modal v] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here in embryo is not only the issue of moral relativity , about which I shall have more to say in my next chapter , but also the sentimental concept of the Noble Savage . |
| 2 | At present , many new nation states are being created in Eastern Europe , and alongside this process there is also the development , perhaps , of a new kind of ‘ European nationalism ’ , about which I shall have more to say in the next chapter . |
| 3 | It was a perfectly serious prophecy , for which I would have paid good money had I gone to one of the Haleiwa psychics . |
| 4 | To me ‘ positive'/ ‘ negative ’ seemed too sharp a distinction , for which I should have preferred the category ‘ included'/ ‘ excluded ’ . |
| 5 | Slightly towards one end , on the surface that was now uppermost on the table , rested a long , unevenly shaped darkish slab of what I might have thought was rough-faced granite . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's no good thinking of what I might have done , Carrie . |
| 7 | When he 'd gone I lay and thought for a long time about poor young Mr Vickers , and of what I should have told Doone , and had n't . |
| 8 | He has reminded me of what I should have said in my supplementary answer to the hon. Member for Pontypridd ( Dr. Howells ) . |
| 9 | My driving on was not a blind impulse , for I had reasons to stop with which I would have justified myself had I done so , but I discounted them in favour of other reasons for continuing . |
| 10 | ‘ Then I catch up with what I should have been doing all day . |
| 11 | But in the course of developing our case we have found no grounds upon which I could have validly chosen my present ends except that they are the ones to which I spontaneously tended when most aware ; on what grounds then could I persist in preferring these ends to a further advance in awareness which would undermine them ? |
| 12 | You did not tell me what you had been doing , or where you had been , and you were not interested in whatever I might have been doing . |
| 13 | Erm on the seventeenth of June I was told that there was gon na be a meeting on the eighteenth erm to which I would have to appear concerning my drink driving . |
| 14 | I believe that it will be updated as the new computer takes on additional information , but when and at exactly what point is a matter on which I shall have to get back to the hon. Gentleman because I do not know ACPO 's plans . |
| 15 | Happiness , I knew , was not something she thought much of as an end : it was as if she had said , I 'm glad you do n't mind being poor , and , although when I replied to her , it was only to tell her about the baby , Thomas , and how he had put on five pounds and had cut his first tooth , I brooded over what I might have said while I stood at the sink or pushed the pram , making great , windy speeches in my mind , venting on my absent aunt the curious , unreasonable anger that seemed to rise up before me like a dark pit , bottomless and frightening . |
| 16 | A foolish heart ( mine ) betrayed me , blinding me to what I should have seen . |
| 17 | Apartment 28A in the Alcade Apartments was about what I would have expected . |
| 18 | I 've thought of going to my GP about this , but when I run through what I 'd have to say in my mind . |
| 19 | I 've been racking my brains for what I could have done , then it struck me . |
| 20 | Such an object is not so very different from a table or a cow , concerning which I can have similar information of where they are and what they are doing . |
| 21 | He was quite aware of my childish misdemeanours , but I had n't been to confession since I returned from Egypt , and I thought he would be profoundly shocked by what I should have to tell him . |