Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [vb pp] [pers pn] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should perhaps have made it a giant . |
| 2 | I 'd not have given you the task otherwise ! ’ |
| 3 | I dare say , but it will already have given you a pleasure that no taxman can touch . |
| 4 | ‘ Could n't they just have sent us a photograph ? ’ |
| 5 | She could easily have given me the push after her dad died , and taken on somebody … well , more presentable , like . ’ |
| 6 | These were the only wickets Martin took in the match , but his allround contributions would probably have earned him the Man of the Match award had such been on offer in those days . |
| 7 | You reckon Hatton would also have told him the river bed was full of stones one of which would make a suitable weapon for knocking off his informant ? ’ |
| 8 | Indeed , had the student been in a different ( e.g. less selective ) school or college , his/her performance might well have made him/her a success . |
| 9 | U From Back Page might even have got us a goal . ’ |
| 10 | You would n't have given her a second glance that evening , amid the florid , the fancy and the flash . |
| 11 | It was gratifying to have people shake her hand who once would n't have given her the time of day , and when she walked through the dreary rooms where evidence of the late Adelaide Morey still abounded she had trouble convincing herself that she was now the mistress here . |
| 12 | I think that if she had n't known us ; that I was a groom and Copper was pretty sensible , she would n't have given me the choice of trying to save him , especially as he was seventeen years old . |
| 13 | As my wife said later that day , ‘ One look at your face and I would n't have given you a job . |
| 14 | I would n't have given you the mark for covered . |
| 15 | Minter would n't have paid you a penny for what you might have got out of me . |
| 16 | ‘ I may indeed have given her a guinea or two in a moment of late night extravagance . |
| 17 | If I 'd known you were prone to nightmares I 'd never have told you the story ! ’ |
| 18 | Twisting the wire tie is hard too , but the binning itself is something which would certainly have earned me a Rainbow Award at play-school . |