Example sentences of "'ve [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The controls are slow and unresponsive — let's face it , with the amount of platform beat-'em-ups around you 'd have thought the programmers would 've given a bit more care and attention to this aspect , not to mention the graphics , presentation … the game in general really . |
| 2 | You could 've heard a critic smile ! |
| 3 | All the money we spent on this stuff , ’ she indicated her drink , ’ could 've floated a battleship over the years . ’ |
| 4 | I would 've picked a good one . ’ |
| 5 | I hear you 've come a long way . " |
| 6 | Maxie Carlo must 've cracked a joke . |
| 7 | Erm I 'm just calling because I hear you 've written a book on Irish water spaniels . |
| 8 | You know communications is a very big area there 's a lot to be talked about erm certainly rapport and leading and things like that you asked for that we could 've done a lot more with , the type of language people use we could do a lot more with but when we 've got a limited time we 're gon na have to take a limited snapshot and I hope that what we 've done so far today you found useful and I hope when we put it into practice tomorrow maybe you can understand a little bit more of some of things that we 've been talking about today . |
| 9 | It would 've saved a lot of agonizing . ’ |
| 10 | She must 've made a mistake — Marie said she 'd write to me . |
| 11 | ‘ I can see I 've made a fool of myself again . |
| 12 | I could 've made a fortune flogging beads to hippies . ’ |
| 13 | I mean I thought you 'd 've made a note about oh I must come back to that later |
| 14 | See you 've made a mess on the board as well . |
| 15 | Five frilly nightdresses straight from mail-order , their labels still attached — I 'd 've nicked a couple only I did n't know what disease they might be carrying . |
| 16 | ‘ Had that not happened we would 've had a lot more people at the rally . |
| 17 | ‘ Watch it for Christ sake , ’ Billy bawled into the wind , ‘ ca n't you see I 've had a hard night . ’ |
| 18 | I did n't lose her till she was over twenty but So but I think it was desperation because if I 'd had money I should 've had a house full of children because I loved them , you see , I 've always loved children . |
| 19 | ‘ We could 've had a pizza in town , ’ she reminded him . |
| 20 | ‘ Alex Bannen would 've had a screaming fit if we 'd left you to mess up his precious Bridge ; God alone knows what Tiw would 've done . ’ |
| 21 | See I 've had a couple of colds the past few months and then you think , well that 's me , I 'm getting better . |
| 22 | Beautiful piece , one of the earliest I 've seen — but he must 've had a hard head , ‘ coz it broke . |
| 23 | ‘ All it tells us is he must 've had a foreign accent for them to give him a name like that . |
| 24 | Let me try erm a straw poll on you and I 'm going to ask those of you , I 'll give you a moment or two , who would 've signed up the Maastricht Treaty and who would not have signed up the Maastricht Treaty if you 'd 've had a free vote ? |
| 25 | If we ca n't e e I 've had a couple of months of stock on the shelf for 'em . |
| 26 | When you 're going round the Fens , you must 've had a very early start in the morning , did you ? |
| 27 | I 've always , I might 've had a little moan , but I 've always to myself |
| 28 | We could 've had a two forty video tape , it said , two forty on it and when we put it in were n't it ? . |
| 29 | Yeah , and I said erm , and I said that were n't , if that was n't enough I said bearing in mind he 'd just come out of intensive care off a life support machine , I said and which I think that , that tells us that he needs a bit of extra care compared to some of them on the ward , I said I know they 're all important and I know you 're busy but I said I think you should 've had a bit of priority , he was dying , and you know he 's dying , you 'd been told , she said yes that 's right , I said but what really broke my bloody heart was from one o'clock that dinner time he sat in that chair , we left that hospital at half past eight and you assured us he 'd go to bed and when we came in the next morning at half past ten Joy he sat there exactly the bloody same , in the same filthy blanket and the same catheter on him , oh I went fucking mad and I said how dare you , I said because somebody 's told they 're dying does that mean they 've got to be forgot ? |
| 30 | We should 've had a picture of that . |