Example sentences of "[verb] 've " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can't 've been there ? |
| 2 | Right well you did n't actually get any objections so you couldn't 've handled them , you did n't mention about the prospect contacting the referrals prior to the being made er at the end you did actually bring up did n't you about the , the cricketer , is , is he a batsman then said he was a erm said he was a er all-rounder so you know I 'll , I 'll give you that |
| 3 | And they couldn't 've well for example with taxation , they could 've erm not taxed the rich peasants at all and then just put all their erm their sort of focus upon the poor peasants and got their income through them and also with land , they could 've just not given any land to poor peasants who were inefficient and given it all to the rich peasants and really gone for a capitalist state . |
| 4 | they couldn't 've invested in , in agriculture |
| 5 | In our context , as the community church started , there were rumblings and complaints and what we call ‘ gonguzmos ’ ( Greek and onomatopoeic for grumbling and moaning ) : ‘ All the life has gone out of us ! ’ 'We 've no direction . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I sort 've got stuck in the '70s . |
| 7 | Tracy'd 've loved it out there with their books , what was that one we were looking at with |
| 8 | It'd 've served him right for being such a spaced-out hippy . |
| 9 | ‘ Goo ter bloody prison with the rest of yer croonies yow 've got yerself mixed up with for all I care , ’ he bawled in reply , and with that he stormed out slamming the door behind . |
| 10 | If ever yow 've parted with that , I warn yer , I 'll kill yer ! ’ |
| 11 | Yeah we did we wouldn't 've had as well . |
| 12 | But the past conditional is a notoriously tricky area , even for mother-tongue speakers , and there 's no point in speculating on which way the final result might have gone if we wouldn't 've scored that first goal , Ron . |
| 13 | I wouldn't 've talked that way if I knew that . ’ |
| 14 | And when I arrived I wouldn't 've been surprised if my name had n't been on the list but it was there . |
| 15 | If they did n't like us they wouldn't 've asked us , would they ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ She wouldn't 've understood , ’ said Camille . |
| 17 | ‘ Only if you really were an alcoholic , you wouldn't 've told me . ’ |
| 18 | I mean I wouldn't 've minded if she said come up the house like and she mentioned Cardiff but I 've gone so fat I do n't wan na go ! |
| 19 | I wouldn't 've known . |
| 20 | If you 'd 've known then what you knew after you wouldn't 've thought it were funny , you 'd 've not been chucking nowt you 'd 've been off . |
| 21 | There are two members I think have spoken from the Liberal benches concerning funding bureaucracy and I would agree entirely with what that means but they 've also mentioned in the same bet , budgetary control and if you 're going to control budgets , you have to have a minimal amount of bureaucracy and the function really of the head of the er of the project , er the head of the the post that 's now slipped into oblivion with this motion , would actually have been to do two things it would have been to hold the two groups together and it would have been to have overall control of that budget and it would n't have been easy and I would n't have like the job and I wouldn't 've applied for it and certainly would have been very difficult indeed . |
| 22 | I bet you wish it had 've been … |
| 23 | if that had 've been Cath , that would have been a real turn up for me would n't it ? |
| 24 | Because there were some old ones there before the young one had 've gone there do you see . |
| 25 | If you had 've been asked , would you for what he actually bought ? |
| 26 | No because our training is such that there is n't the officers just would not come into that bedroom at all because there is a threat in there and I 'm dealing with that threat and unless I specifically call for another officer to come and give me a hand there is no need to come in and in fact if anybody had 've done they 'd have been told to get out because I 've got a problem there and that 's my problem . |
| 27 | If there had 've been , we 'd be married now , because I love her , but not like that — not the way you love her . ’ |
| 28 | well I 'd go along with that but what I was saying was I , I thought you might become more confrontational and if you were then we 'd 've got into a bit of a tennis match there and but then you did n't go down that route , that 's what I 'm saying , you did n't actually go down that cos if you had 've done we 'd 've got nowhere |
| 29 | He 'd have been fucking if there had 've been . |
| 30 | and he was saying to me er , he says Jean I says I live and learn and er he says , you know when he says , he talks through his nose , he says you know if they had 've left Sandy Row the way it was and just put bathrooms in and he says and the way it is |