Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [modal v] [verb] [vb pp] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And if it were all true , do you really think I would have admitted it ? |
| 2 | And even if I had , I do n't think I 'd 've paid it much attention . |
| 3 | I do n't think I 'd have spotted it myself if I had n't seen the way he reacted the day we found Wolfgang Klein , when Gebrec got so upset . ’ |
| 4 | I do n't think I could have handled it if I 'd been given a sentence . |
| 5 | I would have written far sooner , only — to be quite frank — I feared a snub , and I do n't think I could have borne it … |
| 6 | I do n't think I could have stood it crying for hours on end . |
| 7 | But if I 'd had eight months of thinking , I do n't think I could have taken it . |
| 8 | I mean I could have made it up it was that easy . |
| 9 | Erm and I may have slowed down a little today , I do n't know I should have timed it again . |
| 10 | ‘ Whatever happens I shall have enjoyed it no end . |
| 11 | Only one : nose ( for noise ) which seems worse than it is , because the misspelling has produced a rather comic word , and we may feel she ought to have recognised it as the word it is , rather than the word she meant it to be . |
| 12 | Halfway through dressing , wearing his shirt and underpants , he looked for Moda in the workroom , where he assumed she would have thrown it on their pile of magazines ; he wanted to gaze at Bella Kropotkin again , but he could n't find the magazine . |
| 13 | It was farcical to suggest that we were conspiring — if we were , I hope we would have done it more elegantly . ’ |
| 14 | It was farcical to suggest that we were conspiring — if we were , I hope we would have done it more elegantly |
| 15 | He says he would have liked it to continue this way . |
| 16 | He says he would have burnt it if he could have afforded to buy it . |
| 17 | ‘ You do n't think she might have sold it ? ’ |
| 18 | Had he been around at the time of my capture I do n't believe I 'd have made it very far . |
| 19 | As a standalone machine I would 've given it a fourth star . |
| 20 | I would n't have thought you could have afforded it so soon . |
| 21 | I wondered where all that confetti came from ; knowing Mum I guessed she must have supplied it , but none of us children were given any . |
| 22 | He stared at the signature , wondering who could have sent it ? |
| 23 | Oh , Jay , I 'd have thought she 'd have done it by now , if she was going to . |
| 24 | It was a big relief because everyone could see we should have won it . ’ |
| 25 | If would have thought we should have had it two years ago , if we 'd got moving , but we have n't . |
| 26 | Milan can be circumspect about visiting conductors , but on this occasion even the orchestra was stamping its approval for Lorin Maazel , a phenomenon I was told the Scala had not witnessed for over two decades ( you would have thought they might have managed it in the recent past for Muti , watching with no evident rancour from the box : but apparently not ) . |
| 27 | Well I think , I would have thought they could have done it a bit quicker , the bathroom , if they wanted to . |
| 28 | Though you 'd have thought they 'd have taken it off before bringing in their things . |
| 29 | The Duke and Duchess of Windsor would have been marvellous and I suspect they might have done it , too . |
| 30 | Well , he might have kept one as a spare , but I rather suspect he 'd have handed it to a friend with strict instructions to thrash it to death and to return it in five years ’ time … |