Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [vb pp] i [adv] " in BNC.

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1 The commonest and most visible indices of field officer performance are negative , as an agency head explained : ‘ An area supervisor will sit there and say , ‘ So and so has let me down again .
2 ‘ His jailers were certain he intended to have me killed , or they would not have treated me thus . ’
3 Were I her honoured guest , she could not have used me more generously . ’
4 ‘ This was equally true of the teachers , since they , together with the headmaster , could have decided to stop my research whenever they felt it threaten them ; equally , if they had accepted me with open arms it would have meant that the boys would not have trusted me greatly . ’
5 It could not have suited me better .
6 There was a sense of the primeval about the place , and it would not have surprised me unduly to see a pterodactyl alight clumsily , or a dinosaur emerge from behind the rocks .
7 Yet fear it I did , so greatly did the idea come to me that if I took her up to the cave to meet Elsbeth , she would somehow have trapped me instead of I her .
8 Trouble closer home has sent me out
9 She said , ‘ I think you would probably have scolded me just as hard , Mr Langley , ’ and then she gathered up her handbag and rose to her feet .
10 If he really loved me he could n't have sent me away .
11 ‘ Are you trying to tell me that if I 'd come to you you would n't have sent me away with a flea in my ear ? ’
12 ‘ If you wanted that you should n't have sent me somewhere tame , ’ Maggie pointed out , nearly laughing as she said the word .
13 ‘ Wild horses would n't have kept me away , my dear Angharad . ’
14 A tank unit would n't have kept me away .
15 ‘ Lady , if I 'd known I was dealing with a certifiable lunatic wild horses would n't have dragged me here . ’
16 Certainly if I had been doing all the restoration work myself it would n't have cost me so much because I am the cheapest worker in this outfit .
17 Not that it matters — your detective would n't have found me anyway .
18 I used to babysit before but for older ones , and coming here 's got me more used to younger babies .
19 Being there has changed me completely . ’
20 The eyes alone could never have given me so profound a sense of Spring , of Maytime and the blossoming of hawthorn upon the heaths and wild cherry at the border of the beech copses .
21 ‘ In that case , you should never have taken me out sailing in the first place ! ’
22 You should never have brought me here .
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