Example sentences of "that i [modal v] not have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is to the great credit of the editors that I would not have known if they had not stated this in the preface . |
| 2 | I found myself questioning many of their beliefs in a way that I would not have dared to do at the beginning of the study ; I could question them in their own terms and in doing so , test the boundaries of their beliefs . |
| 3 | I was so relieved to see the fear had left him that I would not have minded had he asked me to get into bed with him . |
| 4 | I have to admit that if I 'd known that I would n't have asked to have you seconded to Carlisle Flint … ’ |
| 5 | ‘ And do n't forget , I was by then dominated by my aunt to such an extent that I would n't have dared . |
| 6 | But I can assure you that I would n't have lasted five minutes in what , by any standards , is a very tricky and difficult market if I had n't been able to cope with the work . |
| 7 | He had such a talent for self-dramatisation that I would n't have put it past him , on finding that plunger , to have invented the whole thing — except that I had watched in horror as he deliberately forced the wretched mestizo over the edge , thrusting at his face with that dummy hand until he had disappeared into the gorge below . |
| 8 | No I mean it may be , you know you i it may be reasonably busy straight through but I would have thought even there you 're probably talking about four not a lot higher than that I would n't have thought . |
| 9 | When I look back on the long friendship , I realize that I need not have had certain misgivings about troubling Eliot or taking up his time — misgivings due to temperamental diffidence rather than to genuine modesty , I am afraid — because he was both generous of his time and solicitous about the welfare of those in whom lie took an interest . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's not terribly easy to go away with that sort of thing ringing in your ears , but for all that I could n't have chosen a more marvellous or rewarding life . ’ |
| 11 | You could have — I know that now , and I also know that I could n't have coped with it then . ’ |
| 12 | He described a life so different from my own that I could not have imagined it — ‘ She loved me for the dangers I had passed , and I loved her , that she did pity them . ’ |
| 13 | I spent a perplexing evening in a Georgia bar some years ago endeavouring to persuade a local that I could NOT have driven from London . |
| 14 | In retrospect , I know now that I could not have chosen a more co-operative species than the chub with which to begin a vocation in big-fish angling . |
| 15 | It was not that I eventually doubted that the Almighty responded to faith , but that because I had been so bound up by the desert , so full of self-interest , so neglectful of the God I was supposed to serve , that I could not have expected any co-operation from him . |
| 16 | But , even there I knew that I could not have rejoiced . |
| 17 | Many people in the black community , people that I had thought of as friends , said to me that I should not have worn the flag that night . |
| 18 | Councillor Buchanan , therefore , is confused in imagining that the board is a committee of the council , on which he bases his argument that I should not have remained in office . |
| 19 | However , my enquiry was met with the response that I should not have entered the competition if I was not prepared to travel etc . |
| 20 | ‘ I told him I did and he gave me a look which suggested that I should n't have kept it from him ! ’ |
| 21 | I knew that I should n't have felt sorry for them . |
| 22 | That I should n't have swept you straight off to the church ? |
| 23 | A lot of people said last year that I should n't have had a factory bike , so I was happy that my early results demonstrated I was worthy of an NSR . |
| 24 | I can ask you to accept that I should n't have come to you like this if I did not believe that the matter may turn out to be very grave indeed . |