Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [adv] have [vb pp] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should never have extended credit to you then , and I wo n't do it again . |
| 2 | Hells bells , I should never have quit abstinence . |
| 3 | Sometimes it is the Had I But Known what grim secret lurked beneath the smiling exterior I would never have set foot within the door ; Sometimes the Had I But Known then what I know now , I could have saved at least three lives by revealing to the Inspector the conversation I heard through that fortuitous hole in the floor . |
| 4 | If the lunar curves in Figure 6.9 can roughly be applied to Mercury then crater erasure took place before about 4000 Ma ago , and most of the present craters , which may also have given rise to the smooth plains , were in place by about 3000 Ma ago , and little has happened on the Mercurian surface since except for the effects of tidal slow-down and interior shrinkage . |
| 5 | Similarly , the reference to the barge really refers to an account in a play of a scene which we do not and in some ways could not witness , a scene which may never have taken place in those terms . |
| 6 | Let it not be forgotten that in the years leading to the war the Tories were so scared of Russia that they missed the chance to establish a partnership which might well have prevented war . |
| 7 | The current South African team is still a long way from emulating the 1960s side which could well have claimed World Championship status if they had been able to test their strength against Garry Sobers ' West Indies . |
| 8 | The court which would normally have taken cognizance was that over which the lord presided ; and although it was in the lord 's court that the vassal made his defiance , it was usually done , not in person , but by messenger or herald , and the vassal could not at that stage accept any ruling of the court . |
| 9 | Proposals for a Defense Industrial Base Revitalisation Act , which would also have provided cash for retooling over a wide range of American industry , had widespread support from Democrats and Republicans . |
| 10 | An amendment which would effectively have outlawed abortion , by extending the provisions of a clause on the right to life to include life from the moment of conception , was defeated . |
| 11 | An overseas individual subscriber not registered for VAT , who may previously have incurred VAT through the member state 's post office collection system , will now benefit from a VAT-free magazine , simply because the UK legislation specifically zero-rates those goods — at least for the time being ! |
| 12 | If you 're a composer , you may already have composed music for an AV production of some sort . |
| 13 | You may also have paid Class 3 voluntary contributions at some point in your life in order to maintain your contributions record . |
| 14 | You may possibly have heard talk to the effect that I was a damned good scrum half . |
| 15 | Advice and support at this time could aim to minimise the chances of a girl returning to an unhappy discordant home and to parents with whom she may largely have lost touch . |
| 16 | She may also have anticipated trouble with her school managers . |
| 17 | What good was this love that she should never have given birth to ? |
| 18 | Through its network the Red Cross manages to connect people who might otherwise have lost touch forever . |
| 19 | Actually , not one of its members is a day over 50 ( although all of them are coming close ) but you might reasonably have expected age to leave Daltrey , Townshend , and Entwistle looking worse than well-travelled . |
| 20 | I appreciate that you might recently have sent information on your sponsorship opportunities to the Advisory Service on the old-style pink forms but I would ask you to provide the information again on the new form . |
| 21 | At least I did not recognize her ; but then she was such a shrinking , washed-out-creature — when later I had lunch with one of Eliot 's former doctors he described her as ‘ an ugly little thing ’ , which was rather unkind and hardly accurate — that she could easily have escaped notice . |
| 22 | She 'd rather have caught pneumonia and died . |
| 23 | But she admits her first experience of birth has n't put her off — she 's just glad they live so close to the hospital otherwise she 'd probably have given birth in the car ! |
| 24 | You 'd never have caught Spoonie Gee wearing Dunlop Green Flash . |
| 25 | If your bitch is not neutered , you should be aware of the possibility of this behavioural change occurring soon after the time when she would normally have given birth , just over two months after her last heat . |
| 26 | ‘ I do n't think she would have submitted — I would n't have done in that position — but she would definitely have lost consciousness and that would have given me the title . ’ |
| 27 | Mr Justice Laws , said in the High Court if she had known there was a risk of pregnancy she would never have had sex with her lover . |
| 28 | ( Guardian 25.6.90 ) since he now feared , that as with previous alternatives to custody , the new measures would be used instead for people who would previously have avoided jail . |
| 29 | This is not so much because John Hart , the Malvern College schoolmaster , and his nine colleagues would have otherwise found themselves paying a hefty tax bill on the concessionary school places given to their sons eight years ago ; nor is it so much because of the thousands of other employees who would also have faced tax bills for other concessionary benefits . |
| 30 | Accordingly , it is evident that a gift of such significance could have been of no small value to a freeholder or councillor who would otherwise have found difficulty in endowing a relative so generously at the commencement of his career . |