Example sentences of "[modal v] n't have [verb] [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I was doing alright myself , I should n't 've let him do it . |
| 2 | You should n't have made me come down here . |
| 3 | But I should n't have let myself get near that cringing landlord . |
| 4 | I should n't have let myself fall in love with him ! she thought angrily . |
| 5 | Perverse conditioned psychological needs require some of our best thinking to solve — but then we should n't have let them become habits in the first place . |
| 6 | ‘ You should n't have let him go off by himself ! |
| 7 | ‘ I know we should n't have let him go , but I did n't feel we know him well enough to tell him he was too drunk to drive . ’ |
| 8 | We should n't have let him become chairman . |
| 9 | I should n't have let him have the key . |
| 10 | I should n't have let him have the key . |
| 11 | ‘ I should n't have let you do it . ’ |
| 12 | But I should n't have let you do that . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I should n't have let you go in there , ’ Pascoe said . |
| 14 | I immediately got a lot of media attention — Radio One could n't have made me fail . ’ |
| 15 | Oh Jesus , Sam , she was everybody 's Aunt Jemima , if she 'd turned up with her hair in a bun and flour on her apron she could n't have made them love her more , Jesus , Sam , we 're not guilty . |
| 16 | They wanted to make it work though and they could n't have made it work unless they had had the I mean the right conditions to do so . |
| 17 | ‘ He could n't have made us do what he wanted otherwise since he was on his own . ’ |
| 18 | He really is so peculiarly helpless , and I could n't have let him take it home all by himself , could I ? |
| 19 | ‘ I would n't have done that , ’ Norman protested : ‘ I would n't have made her cry . ’ |
| 20 | If he too had wanted the bomb to go off , his belief would n't have made him shoot , it would have made him dive for cover . |
| 21 | I would n't have let him give it to me . |
| 22 | Phillis said , ‘ She would n't have let him touch me if she was here . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I should have liked to be a nun , except they would n't have let me smoke and I could n't live without cigarettes . |
| 24 | ‘ Otherwise ’ , she says , ‘ they would n't have let me do it . |
| 25 | ‘ Editorial ’ , she notes , ‘ did n't regard it as important , otherwise they would n't have let me do it . ’ |
| 26 | Think what I shall say is , I shall myself quite simply , if it ever gets out I 'll say well look I know full well that you would n't have let me stop at Helena 's you would have objected to it I said , but Andy 's mum and dad , Andy was like pretty bad so we left him there and I said I stopped up to help look after him . |
| 27 | ‘ I would n't have let her marry him if she had ! ’ declared Lady Merchiston . |
| 28 | You know I gave her the ultimatum like you can come with us but damn well I would n't have let her come . |
| 29 | Ruth swung her long tanned legs to the patio and sat up in the lounger where she had been soaking up the sun lasciviously for the past hour and irrationally telling herself that if Fernando Serra had really loved her he would n't have let her slip away from him so easily . |
| 30 | If he had cared he would n't have let her slip away the way he had . |