Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [modal v] have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Colleagues fear someone may have used his coded authorisation to operate the machine . |
| 2 | Well erm I mean I might have said |
| 3 | So presumably he 's actually believing these ideas I mean I would 've thought he , he if he came back and said there 's tension , there 's , you know it was , between the two classes and we go in and we direct them in a certain way , put the right ideas in their mind , that we can harness the revolution . |
| 4 | Well , he need n't , I mean I would have stayed in bed . |
| 5 | So I mean I would have thought they 've got ta comply with the same |
| 6 | ‘ You mean I should have guessed he 'd come prepared to blackmail us ? ’ she enquired with mock sweetness . |
| 7 | ‘ You mean I should have offered Dunedin also to Earl Siward ? |
| 8 | I mean I could have made it up it was that easy . |
| 9 | I REALISE everyone must have suffered from the saturation coverage of the election regardless of which party they support . |
| 10 | I expect I would have gone anyway ; it was something of an event . ’ |
| 11 | Now I realise I must have looked awful . |
| 12 | As I say I ought to have had savvy enough , Edgeware Road , the first part of it , is purely commercial as you know , er er erm but I had n't realized that at the time . |
| 13 | ‘ I make it quite clear anything I say I would have said regardless of the result of this present case , ’ he told the court . |
| 14 | I say I would have found you the cheapest ones , and they were good quality ones as well , you know you go to some of these garden centres and |
| 15 | Reck'n ye could 've fried the eggs on the cylinder heads it 's so bright and clean and polished . |
| 16 | Gordon Strachan OBE is simply unbelievable , and if HRH has been shown highlights of the game yet , I expect she 'll have popped the hereditary peerage in the post for him . |
| 17 | alright , well then building on that I do n't quite understand it , if you 're , you 're saying that those provisions that allow agents to pull for whatever funds are necessary are what , void to what extent to the extent that the funds are or are said to be erm needed to satisfy claims on policies which had you known that which you say you ought to have known , you would not have er authorised the agents to write , type rather long that , but I |
| 18 | ‘ They say you should have gone to the very top in the army after the war but you were stopped . |
| 19 | At another time and place she could have helped me in no uncertain manner . |
| 20 | He walked with a limp , and had you not known better you could have mistaken the sores and scabs on his face for the kind of wounds worn by down-and-outs in Cardboard City . |
| 21 | The Billeting Office found us accommodation , but no one appeared to be responsible for us otherwise , though I expect we could have gone to our administrative chief Harold Fletcher , if we had been in any serious trouble . |
| 22 | ‘ I still say we should have called the police . ’ |
| 23 | If they had dominated I expect they would have had at least a few more ( in 20 mins ) . |
| 24 | Very big and brave they must have looked in their new NATO camouflage suits , and absolutely dead they were when they were taken out of the vans . |
| 25 | British and American scientists say they would have preferred to wait longer before restarting ROSAT . |
| 26 | ‘ First you claim that the family is collaborating with the kidnappers , then you say they must have used their influence to have me sent here . |
| 27 | I say they must have got the knowledge from him somehow , by what manner of deception I know no more than you . |
| 28 | The authority spent twenty thousand pounds on the eviction , half what the squatters say they 'd have paid in rent over the two years |
| 29 | His determination to deny them the ‘ improved living and working conditions , proper social protection , dialogue between management and labour ’ aspired to by the Maastricht social chapter suggest he may have had a different community in mind from the sort outside the gates of Timex . |
| 30 | Well , maybe they were n't his exact words , but I expect he would have come up with something like that had he been asked for his thoughts on Carter 's ‘ Only Living Boy In New Cross ’ . |