Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [modal v] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway I realized I 'd have missed you at the Club , so I turned round and set off back . |
| 2 | As the days passed I might have been telling him the truth , for I lost weight far more successfully than on any diet I have ever attempted . |
| 3 | But the doctor said that when I recovered I would have to practise less and go out more often . |
| 4 | Richard needs his nose wiped I 'll have to go upstairs and get some more tissues , who needs they 're nose wiped ? , |
| 5 | Well I know I know is the only one that realised I would 've been more shocked if had yeah I would have been out on the pavement here whistling with a banjo whistling Dixie there you are that one no not yet no . |
| 6 | British Aluminium own the land , and as soon as I realised I would have to trespass with a car , my imagination started its fevered travail . |
| 7 | So , when I found I wanted to write a book that would reflect a little on whether we should strive to be perfect or settle for the second-best but practical , I realised I would have to have a murder that was in some way imperfect . |
| 8 | If all else failed I would have to write to the Pope . |
| 9 | which reminds me , yeah , the last block I got I 'll have to take it back , it was the wrong colour , we 've got some silver got some , got |
| 10 | The programmers who designed them may have been any of these things , but that is irrelevant . |
| 11 | While I was on bail and Stephen was still with foster parents , they promised I could have Stephen for Christmas . |
| 12 | But should it be that anyone ever wished to posit that I have attained at least a little of that crucial quality of ‘ dignity ’ in the course of my career , such a person may wish to be directed towards that conference of March 1923 as representing the moment when I first demonstrated I might have a capacity for such a quality . |
| 13 | Crossing again to the fireplace , I gazed at it with awe , and had I been of a religious bent I would have fallen on my knees and prayed that the water would meet Nigel 's requirements so that on winter evenings , when we were doing our Darby and Joan bit , we could sit and worship the spirit of the fire , the hearth , the very essence of our home . |
| 14 | and as I cooled I could have been |
| 15 | When I got to Holloway I found I would have been entitled to take most of the things she would n't let me take , like a hairbrush . |
| 16 | It was difficult to make sure I had taken the right things but not too much and I found I could have done with less . |
| 17 | J. was one of these in his capacity as fitter/armourer , and he was there when an accident occurred which could have escalated into absolute disaster . |
| 18 | They looked out for Barbara Coleman on the way , but there were taxis about and no one doubted she would have called one . |
| 19 | Isabel lay very still , her muscles so rigid with tension that she doubted she could have moved anyway . |
| 20 | I found we used to have them mixed with sweet almond oil and soya oil , which I find this one brings out their aroma much more the grapeseed oil . |
| 21 | If that occurred we would have the option to pull them out . |
| 22 | Since the Wilson Committee reported there may have been some improvement in the availability of bank finance for small businesses . |
| 23 | Erm if I tried they would have caught me so I just stand still and do n't scream or cry because I 'll get some more . |
| 24 | But according to the common understanding of neutrality , Uruguay would have been breaking its neutrality if in the circumstances described it would have started supplying one of the parties with militarily useful materials after the outbreak of hostilities . |
| 25 | She maintained he should have got the chance to give the facts of ‘ the very complicated case ’ from his own point of view . |
| 26 | Whitlock doubted he would have another gun but he still approached the warehouse with professional caution . |
| 27 | ‘ The man who used it must have thought so . ’ |
| 28 | But being unqualified for anything more taxing than preparing meals and cleaning rooms , it seemed I might have no alternative but to go into service . |
| 29 | Over these last nine years , I have had opportunities to participate in the exercise of more power than I ever imagined I would have . |
| 30 | I imagined I would have a lot of spare time , but my diary is always full . |