Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] have [vb pp] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I may have tried to keep the loonies out , ’ he said , ‘ but once they are in , they are in ! ’ |
| 2 | There is no question but that it would have involved tough chairmanship and I am convinced that the Minister — whom I should have expected to chair the conference — would have had to hit a few heads together . |
| 3 | I mean , I might have had to shove the split match heads under Carol 's fingernails , or tie her to a tree and subject her to psychological warfare by , say , reading Hemingway aloud to her . |
| 4 | Echo-sounding by bats is just one of the thousands of examples that I could have chosen to make the point about good design . |
| 5 | If I 'd have refused to rejoin the army they 'd have stopped my pension , and that 's the only income we have . |
| 6 | ‘ I would have loved to join the elitist few who have made 500 League appearances and , but for my spell in the Conference and my long list of injuries , I probably would have done it , ’ added McDonough , who netted 89 goals in 460 league games . |
| 7 | I would have liked to see the bungalow demolished on TV so that people who violate the laws will know in future what can happen . ’ |
| 8 | I would have liked to take the Crusades as my special subject , but my inadequacy in Latin deterred me . |
| 9 | Had I been sent for much earlier I would have tried to turn the baby — but now … it 's too late . |
| 10 | In the third place , you may recall that I escorted you to your room at half-past twelve ; but the college gates are locked at midnight , from which it follows that I would have had to rouse the duty porter in order both to be let out and to be let in again , something he will most certainly confirm I did not do . |
| 11 | Not that I would have attempted to scale the academic heights of an Oxford or a Cambridge , of course , but they do do some very stimulating courses at the Birmingham Polytechnic . |
| 12 | Return I do n't quite unders can somebody tell me what each indiv I mean basically I would have expected to see the money earned divided by the , the number of staff telling me how much |
| 13 | It 's just — well , it 's just that if whatever killed Paula was a software virus rather than an accident , then someone would have had to infect the suitbrain . |
| 14 | Here Stokowski , incidentally , resorts to tubular bells , which may have served to prompt the enquiries made by Leslie Heward and Sir Thomas Beecham during the mid-1930s . |
| 15 | ‘ Academic respectability ’ prevailed and courses which might have begun to address the key question — what skills and expertise are crucial to the art of teaching and how can these best be learned and applied ? — were never developed . |
| 16 | Kaifu 's government had been forced on Sept. 30 to abandon plans for a major constitutional reform which might have helped to end the LDP 's factional in-fighting . |
| 17 | That , the report concludes , ’ would make it difficult to provide a constructive regime which would have helped to alleviate the dehumanising effects of the insanitary and unsatisfactory physical conditions within the prison . ’ |
| 18 | You may have had to move the mounting screw pillars to new locations and now is the time you discover if you are correct . |
| 19 | She should have known to expect the unexpected where he was concerned . |
| 20 | I just thought you might have happened to pass the |
| 21 | She could have tried to climb the hills , and fallen ! |
| 22 | Suzanne Greenhill , 20 , had been blindfolded — depriving her of the last sense she could have used to identify the attacker — and her underwear had been stuffed in her mouth . |
| 23 | Who could have dared to blot the landscape so ? |
| 24 | Mrs Cameron said yesterday that she would have liked to see the university medical school represented on the board . |
| 25 | She would have liked to take the girl in her arms and hold her for a long time . |
| 26 | She could not find any reason why Benny Hogan from the shop across the road and Eve Malone from the convent up the town should not sit and drink coffee in her bay window , but somehow she would have preferred to keep the space for wealthier and more important matrons of Knockglen . |
| 27 | Not at all the kind of surroundings in which she would have expected to find the high-profile , socially-very-much-in-demand Nathan Bryce . |
| 28 | This was strong language , and must have swayed many who would have liked to uphold the religious tradition of burying the body whole to await resurrection . |
| 29 | No doubt there had long been extreme Gregorians who would have liked to abolish the homage of ecclesiastical landholders for ecclesiastical lands . |
| 30 | Perhaps the hon. Gentleman is one of those who would have liked to sign the amendment . |