Example sentences of "[vb past] [that] [pron] [modal v] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | He nevertheless maintained that it would have been irresponsible of him to have gone forward without warning colleagues of his reservations . |
| 2 | If he 'd broken her arm , she doubted that it would have altered his tone or his attitude in any way . |
| 3 | Fortunately the rain held off , but walking with Ven , his knowledge of the area seemingly limitless , Fabia doubted that it would have bothered her all that much had the heavens opened . |
| 4 | You mentioned that you used to have to go to Helliwells down at Beskett |
| 5 | It seemed to me that he was colder now , disappointed that I should have been found to have anything so hostile as escape equipment in my pockets . |
| 6 | But then she found that she must have been without noticing , for she discovered that there was writing everywhere which she could read without even trying . |
| 7 | The Law Lords found that she should have been fully informed by the bank that she was risking her whole house by guaranteeing a loan to her husband 's business , not the limited amount she believed at the time . |
| 8 | The teller then offered to accept their count , but the Zuwaya objected that he might have stolen more than a hundred votes . |
| 9 | The walls were lined with layers of raincoats of a uniform dun , as though their colours had run together ; they went back years — some had even belonged to her father and were so stiff and cracked that they could have stood unsupported . |
| 10 | Of course , we all realized that everything might have changed . |
| 11 | But even with the camera occasionally disconnected we realized that we would have to be incredibly lucky to overpower a guard in our room without alarming whoever was upstairs . |
| 12 | Well I mo moved because promotion was in the line for me , I was in the Royal Marine Police in island depot in Plymouth and er I 'd been put on plain clothes work and I 'd been doing acting sergeant you know when the sergeant was off sick and all that business and er I 'd put , been put in for this to move because we had a two bedroom bungalow but the twins were getting big and I realized that we 'd have to have another bedroom you know , very soon and er , this seemed an opportunity to get a house and also in Plymouth , that Plymouth was a naval town , you see , there was still those days there was still kind of a , a lower deck of sons , what they call lower deckers , in other words you know people in the lower deck of the navy , their sons did n't really have much , ever have much chance of getting into places like Dartmouth College or Cramwell to do as cadets , well the headmaster at Regent Street School had said to me that Keith was very keen on flying , he was aeroplane mad you see , and , he wanted to go in the Royal Air Force , well he said to me he said oh no put him in the Navy and as a chief art as an artificer , so I said oh no , I said if he goes in the Navy or the service I want him to go in the front door not like me the back door , I had ambition for him |
| 13 | Having lost their serfs , they realized that they would have to alter not only the basis on which they conducted their money-raising activities , but also perhaps the activities themselves . |
| 14 | Although he mistrusted the policeman , he realized that they could have both died if the Citation had crashed . |
| 15 | She had n't thought about how much of her hour remained , until bells started ringing , and she realized that they must have gone for her . |
| 16 | This confused Benny at first , until she realized that they must have been going deeper into the complex , while Froebe would have assumed she was making for the outside . |
| 17 | With regret Stirling realized that he would have to abandon offensive action that night and decided to withdraw without placing any bombs , so as not to jeopardize a future visit . |
| 18 | Leopold realized that he would have no further influence over his son 's career . |
| 19 | The more Marcus thought about it , the more he realized that he would have to seek help from Fanshawe . |
| 20 | Long before it was time to fire he realized that he would have to pull out or crash ; below fifty feet there would be no recovering , not from this angle , not at this speed . |
| 21 | I realized that I could have been in deep trouble there : I came close to inflicting a serious injury on Frank Dick . |
| 22 | In any case , the DES realized that it would have been unrealistic to insist on the receipt of fully-fledged regional plans before giving its blessing to well-founded initiatives being undertaken by institutions in the context of developing regional plans for the training of full-time staff . |
| 23 | At the time I thought little more about it , but later I realized that it must have been caused by some powerful pain-killing drug . |
| 24 | She realized that she might have made the same mistake as Joan Durbeyfield . |
| 25 | But when he surmised the attack was due that night , Tom Ingledew agreed that they would have to sacrifice some fighting capacity on that front — and even some lives — in order to gain the maximum advantage from keeping the sloop as a decoy . |
| 26 | But erm happily erm we managed to deal with the matters primarily because management agreed that we would have a meeting on a Monday and a meeting on a Thursday , both held in the afternoon , in the last hour of the working day . |
| 27 | The Watch Committee agreed that we should have , not we , the force , should have a motorbike combination . |
| 28 | The Watch Committee then , this was what , round about nineteen thirty perhaps , then agreed that we should have a police car . |
| 29 | He met Frank , liked him and agreed that he should have the job . |
| 30 | Although she was not suicidal the therapist agreed that she might have been feeling as if she wanted to die at the time of the overdose . |