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Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] have [vb pp] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	I should have liked simply to disobey orders and stay in the trench .
2	Someone must have come indoors to turn that light on .
3	I might have revived enough to struggle out , once he was gone . ’
4	‘ If I 'd known why it mattered so much to you I 'd have tried harder to make you accept the truth , ’ she said , yielding to her own regrets for a moment .
5	Whereas , if I stopped out here in me own environment , I think I 'd have more of an argument to stay off it because I 'd have worked hard to stop .
6	I would have done better to have held my tongue . ’
7	It would have been defeat over what I now knew for certain was a perfectly reasonable and legal procedure which I would have found hard to handle .
8	He himself would have gone anywhere to see a set of tack of strange cut or history .
9	You may have come there to say something really basic like ‘ Sin is Bad ! ’ or ‘ God is Good ! ’ but it is crucial to start by talking about your Auntie Renee 's operation or why your dog was sick in the back of the car on the M4 .
10	‘ You must have studied hard to get where you are today , starting up your own company .
11	He felt that she should have cared enough to confide in us , where really she cared too much and did n't .
12	If she had known of how the Greeks slaughtered the bearers of bad tidings she might have taken longer to decide it was her duty , but , as it was , she saw no need to fear for herself , only for the person to whom she would relate the devastating news .
13	And who could have gone below to sleep when dawn broke to show the weird silhouettes of Suilven and Canisp against the glow of the eastern sky ?
14	She 'd have done better to snap back at him the way he 'd snapped at her !
15	She 'd have done better to drown her sorrows in a bottle of red wine , and let the world go to blazes .
16	‘ You 'd have done better to leave him alone . ’
17	Do you think though , perhaps you could have done more to keep them in the Party ?
18	She would have liked always to have had a baby .
19	Great news , you might think , for Aunt Agatha , who had begun to fear that , instead of taking young Billy Whizzquid 's advice and putting her savings under the professional management of a unit trust , she would have done better to put them under her mattress .
20	As it turned out , she would have done better to have stayed on her pillow , for there she might have been found by Maud or Enid who would possibly have put two and two together at the curious sight of a cat and frog nestling on the same bed .
21	She would have rushed forward to knock the gun aside , but she was not fast enough .
22	He really was the most annoying , irritating man she had ever met , and if it had n't been for the fact that she knew he would carry out his threat and have her sacked she would have refused point-blank to go tonight .
23	Anna had no need to be besought , for she had done a quick sum on the back of her child benefit book , and had worked out that , if Flora could start at St Saviour 's in the summer term , she would have earned enough to put down at least £100 towards the first term 's fees .
24	Once , she would have died just to hear a kind word .
25	By the time those bills come in , we should have made enough to cover them .
26	We should have fought harder to play in the Scandinavian Open .
27	In particular , we could have done more to use private investment in the road-building programme .
28	Which is a pity , because one would have liked particularly to hear more of the ebullient Gumede , a sort of Mad Max of the townships .
29	They must have worked fast to get it together , Charles thought .
30	They therefore adopt a deeply hostile stance towards intellectual developments of the last two hundred years such as Darwinism and Biblical Criticism , when they would have done better to engage with them and even turn them to their advantage .