Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] have [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps I should have said at the beginning , although I hope it 's obvious , that the speaker of this poem is , of course , coming back to the town where he was born . |
| 2 | I think I should have stayed at the old school where they had confidence in me . |
| 3 | I should have screamed at the start — whenever the start could now be said to be . |
| 4 | Then , alone there in his room , I began to laugh , as I should have laughed at the time . |
| 5 | Another time I might have bristled at the idea of being overseen , at work . |
| 6 | And what he said , was , ‘ Well now , I 'll have to start at the beginning . |
| 7 | I 'll have to stay at the very least an hour . |
| 8 | I could have stood at the window all afternoon , |
| 9 | So she said what it was , and then looking through it , it actually certainly we could have done with a fle I could have looked at the the flexible thing before we came to the meeting , because it |
| 10 | And the fact that your wife is erm there was something that could 've possibly been done for your wife and that is something that maybe I would 've mentioned at the end , do you think this would of be any benefit to the wife only as maybe an ending statement or something |
| 11 | If I were Batty I would have jumped at the offer . |
| 12 | I would have smiled at the Kafkaesqueness of the situation , had I not broken out in a cold sweat and had I at that stage not been ignorant of Kafka 's existence . |
| 13 | I would have to guess at the others because I did n't do erm sums on the other ones it was only on the last play but if it 's on the same sort of erm proportions , then I would say somewhere around thirty percent of the audience are concessions . |
| 14 | For had it not been raining so hard on that Tuesday evening I would have arrived at the Philharmonia Hall in good time . |
| 15 | The fire which should have flared at the entrance was a pile of wet ash and the oil-topped torches were extinguished . |
| 16 | Erm even tapestries like the Devonshire hunting tapestry which you may have seen at the V and A. Er the tops look as if they 're been eaten by mice because they 're been so often snagged onto tenterhooks and moved and moved round and onto other tenterhooks , they just do n't seem to have had the same view of this kind of thing as we do . |
| 17 | I said , if you 'd have said what you should have said at the bloody tribunal . |
| 18 | If you really wanted to learn something you should have started at the top . |
| 19 | She might have stayed at the home for years — people do . |
| 20 | When evening came I was afraid I could n't trust her , because I did n't know how much you suspected , what clever questions you might have to get at the truth . ’ |
| 21 | Ship of the World , Knight Riders No you 'll have to look at the paper . |
| 22 | He stepped away from her and she could have wept at the cold desolation that closed round her . |
| 23 | She could have continued at the City Press , and he remained a policeman . |
| 24 | " You 'd have asked at the door if it had been that . |
| 25 | Who 'd have guessed at the start of the season that within a handful of games Oxford United would be looking for a new manager … |
| 26 | Who 'd have guessed at the start of the season that within a handful of games Oxford United would be looking for a new manager … |
| 27 | She was walking too quickly , stumbling occasionally , past long belts like dressing-gown cords hanging from poles , which plucked at her face as she pushed through , straying over a pile of new dyed wool , brilliant and damp , into a glare of sunlight , stepping back from a mule loaded with carpets , bumping into a wall where blue thread ran along from a spinning wheel , guarded from tangling by small boys who pushed at her and muttered and laughed ; she would have grasped at the thin thread to lead her out . |
| 28 | But she would have woken at the sound of an engine . |
| 29 | And she would have to smile at the first question and say , ‘ Oh , no , no , of course lot . |
| 30 | She would have to look at the local papers . |