Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [vb pp] [pron] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the most audacious thing about this exhibition is that the British Museum should have countenanced it at all . |
| 2 | ‘ Anna should have said nothing at all . |
| 3 | You should have phoned me at ten o'clock , I would have picked you up . |
| 4 | I should have done it at first ; I could have paid it then . |
| 5 | Now , we should have left it at that , but we were too drunk to run , whilst the clerks were sober and quick-witted . |
| 6 | Some memory must have stabbed him at that moment . |
| 7 | You might have felt nothing at all . |
| 8 | He seemed obtuse , as she felt by this time that she had more than cancelled out any slight encouragement she might have given him at first . |
| 9 | They could have discharged themselves at any time , but they were destitute and the best was done for them that was possible in the circumstances . |
| 10 | He 'd have bought it at any cost . ’ |
| 11 | And if he 'd have needed me at six he 'd have got me up at five . |
| 12 | In this respect orthodox medicine may have placed itself at some disadvantage to its complementary counterparts . |
| 13 | ‘ Swindon are a good side , but we would have beaten them at Ayresome Park but for a crazy final ten minutes . ’ |
| 14 | In fact , if I had n't been living here I doubt they would have noticed us at all ! |
| 15 | At A level , I toyed with the idea of doing physics , maths and English , and if I was just doing it for pure enjoyment I would have done it at that stage . |
| 16 | How happy it would have made her at any other time . |
| 17 | I hated speaking to large groups of people and normally would have avoided it at all costs , but I found that I had thought so much about this that telling other people was a relief . |
| 18 | He obviously had never heard of the Order of Merit or I am quite sure he would have mentioned it at that time . |
| 19 | Only those who were sufficiently moved by piety or curiosity to go on a pilgrimage to the celebrated shrine of Santiago de Compostella , on roads which took them through Aquitaine , can have learned anything at all about the land which was to be the chief concern of Richard 's life . |