Example sentences of "[vb mod] n't [verb] [vb pp] [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm to deal with Mr 's point about denying a problem of affordable housing , I think er he must n't have heard what I said properly , because I 've never sought to deny that there 's a ho a problem of access to housing . |
| 2 | Suddenly , for some inexplicable reason , it seemed important that he should n't have heard what Terry Lewis had just said . |
| 3 | I was feeling pretty fed up but I should n't have said what I did . |
| 4 | Well , he 'd had a few — I mean , he probably should n't have said what he did . |
| 5 | I think Miss should n't have said what she said because Jay has n't got a problem . |
| 6 | In the one that we should n't have had which we did have . |
| 7 | Second , I thought Braden certainly should n't have laid what he did with ladies present , even if Mrs. Favor had started it . |
| 8 | Though he could n't have said what that purpose might be . |
| 9 | And , as I met her eyes , I did have a memory of something , although I could n't have said what . |
| 10 | " Jane , you could n't have done what I told you " |
| 11 | ‘ The bastards who planted it were hiding in the trees , so Donald did n't see them and could n't have expected what was about to happen . |
| 12 | It 's a useful way of getting a perspective on the present , to realize that people think and feel in such different ways , in totally alien ways , that are completely unsympathetic , which is why feminism is an interesting development , because the ability to read something written in a totally patriarchal tradition , and to make the sympathetic adjustment , giving him his due , recognizing that he could n't have thought what you think , because people did n't think like that then … . |
| 13 | ‘ I could n't have known what would happen , could I ? ’ |
| 14 | Fatal experiment : ‘ Danny could n't have known what he was doing ’ |
| 15 | Philip reckoned he was n't as big as him but you could n't have told what age he was . |
| 16 | You would n't have believed what a bright and with-it little woman she was when I first started here . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I would n't have achieved what I have , if it was n't for my dad . ’ |
| 18 | Things would n't have kept what you would have had a totally different kind of eating habits ? |
| 19 | deFries , being a straight guy , would n't have known what was going on . |
| 20 | Even when he saw it being done he still would n't have known what was going on but unless you try it yourself , you do n't know what physical effect , or mental effect , it has on you and how speedy and intolerant it makes you of other people . |
| 21 | I am totally computer hostile so I would n't have known what to do with the damn thing . |
| 22 | Sport , erm , I remember when I learned badminton , that the teacher would show us the high smash shot down , until we saw it being done properly , if he told us the theory of it without showing us what it looked like when it was done properly , we would n't have known what we were aiming at . |
| 23 | Otherwise we would n't have known what it looked like . |
| 24 | I would n't have known what to do if you 'd cried , but you did n't . |
| 25 | I would never have taken anything out of that book that you had put in because I would n't have known what it was about . |
| 26 | he ca n't have known what he was doing — it was just like putting his head in a gas oven . |