Example sentences of "it [modal v] [verb] [vb pp] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , but the thing is right , they , that 's because they 're criminally insane any way , it may have given them an idea but it does n't mean that that women or whoever it might not of died any way . |
| 2 | We feel it may have upset her mentally . |
| 3 | It may have told him that although 2 per cent . |
| 4 | It may have helped us if we had had such an organisation to fall back on . |
| 5 | It may have helped us if we had had such an organisation to fall back on . |
| 6 | It may have taken me a long time to find out about him . |
| 7 | After all , it may have taken them quite a lot of courage to criticize you in the first place . |
| 8 | Now they 're blaming the government , saying it should have warned them against transferring their pensions into Maxwell 's hands . |
| 9 | It should have frightened her — she felt so weak by comparison — but instead she wanted to cling , to soften , to yield . |
| 10 | Yes , they will go , but the government should do two things , and it should have done them in the White Paper announcement ; it should have said ‘ we are proposing to get rid of all advantages for company cars in tax terms and we are proposing to make sure that people pay by paying more road tax or more petrol costs if they have high gas-guzzling cars ’ . |
| 11 | The only Excuse me , er no , we even had Abbot , A double B , er did n't always get in front but I think it should have done you know , you take the first letter and then you take the . |
| 12 | It should have made him feel more imprisoned than ever , but instead brought an unexpected breath of freedom . |
| 13 | It should have calmed her , gazing down at the burbling river , should have helped her to think about the problem uppermost in her mind ; but it was impossible to concentrate , knowing that he was close by . |
| 14 | If a conventionalist thinks that the Court should have disregarded Plessy in Brown because racial segregation is especially immoral , he will insist that the Court should have made plain to the public the exceptional nature of its decision , that it should have admitted it was changing the law for nonlegal reasons . |
| 15 | It should have brought us closer together , but instead it was like we did n't know each other any more , as if we were complete strangers . |
| 16 | It should have convinced you of the importance of proceeding beyond bivariate relationships to considering systems in which three or more variables are operating together . |
| 17 | It should have told them something , but it has not . |
| 18 | What it should have told them is that terrorism makes it harder , not easier , to gain a hearing in a democracy . |
| 19 | Yeah , it must 've cost him that to take them over there . |
| 20 | The clock chimed in the hall : it must have done it several times but I had n't heard . |
| 21 | If it has a mental map , it must have inherited it . |
| 22 | First , it must have enabled him to consolidate his hold on Anglian territories north of the Humber , establishing himself securely now not only in Deira but also presumably over the more outlying regions of his kingdom . |
| 23 | It went some way to repairing their damaged pride after their defeat by Swindon Town at the weekend , Mickey Inotta was there ; Mickey it must have cheered you up a bit . |
| 24 | It must have cost her over a quid . |
| 25 | It must have cost her quite a bit too , taking on a man who looks like I look , his fat shoulders and heavy head tensed over the spectacle of her lost or twisted sisters . |
| 26 | Yes , even with her strong round face and unimpeachable teeth and her rectitude , it must have cost her something . |
| 27 | Dad said , and it must have cost him a lot to say so little after he 'd been put down by me , ‘ I 've decided I want to be with Eva . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ But it must have cost you more than you could afford , ’ Faye accused . |
| 29 | It must have lulled me into a day dream . |
| 30 | It must have threatened him not only with disillusionment , but with a despair verging on the suicidal ; and if he persists in disseminating the message , he does so almost somnambulistically , as a means of distracting himself from his uncertainties . |