Example sentences of "[modal v] [not/n't] [verb] [vb pp] me [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , you should n't have grabbed me like that , ’ she said crossly . |
| 2 | They should n't have left me at school . |
| 3 | As his next letter , dated 11 January showed , the Spender book could not have reached me before 12 January at the earliest , and I wanted to keep to the length of an article . |
| 4 | But surely you could n't have expected me to be carrying something so valuable around with me ? ’ |
| 5 | She could barely breathe , her heart pounding so hard that she had to shout shakily , ‘ Because I knew it meant you could n't have married me for my father 's company , and I wanted to find out why you 'd lied about it . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ It 's an even greater pity that you could n't have told me about Ling 's day off , ’ she flared at him . |
| 7 | I could never understand why Crusoe left his paradise in the first place ; wild horses would not have dragged me from Juan Fernandez . |
| 8 | I remember thinking that if I had been trapped in the car , the firemen would not have reached me in time . |
| 9 | Dorcas would n't have brought me in here if he knew there was a monster about to bite me . |
| 10 | ‘ A very large beetle ’ , she will say , as if she would n't have bothered me about a smaller one ; or ‘ The steps were slippery ’ ; or merely ( which strikes me as cryptic to the point of tautology ) , ‘ Something nasty ’ . |
| 11 | Oh no he would n't have had me in any case . |