Example sentences of "[modal v] have [verb] [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Should have realised it the first time , but that 's what happens when you make assumptions . |
| 2 | I think you should have done it the other way . |
| 3 | Oh I always give you first cup , I 'll have to give you the last one then . |
| 4 | Now we could n't do it anyway next year , we 'll have to do it the following year as we 've heard earlier . |
| 5 | They could have followed us the four hours to Dieppe in the hope of picking up trade on the way back ; but that makes for a ten-hour day . |
| 6 | Adorno 's recognition of the radical potential of what he called jazz ( see , for example , Adorno 1976 : 33–4 ) could have given him the theoretical space for such an approach ( it certainly means he has no logical grounds for the theoretical closure he operates , only a self-fulfilling pessimism ) ; but he fails to follow his quest into places where he could have found what he sought , and , more damagingly , he excludes the possibility of any other mode of critique than that associated with alienated individualism . |
| 7 | " Could have told you the Silesian Defence would n't work in One-Dimensional Chess . |
| 8 | if I 'd have fed it the first time I 'd have understood it , but I 've only fed it today ! |
| 9 | In fact it has often been said that Halley 's reputation for atheism may have cost him the Savilian chair of astronomy in 1691–2 . |
| 10 | His companion was a head shorter and he was thin ; but a reader of character would have stamped him the more evil of the two . |
| 11 | Oh well it were n't to me cos I probably would have given you the eight |
| 12 | See where this affair with a nobody will lead you ; I would have made you the greatest actress of your generation , and now you are nothing and no one . ’ |
| 13 | Its elasticity would have made it the ideal candidate for a trampoline-cover . |
| 14 | The plan of ‘ systematization ’ if it had been carried through would have left them the only repositories of folk-culture and architecture , since the threefold slogan ‘ Systematization — Modernization — Civilization ’ would have left little of what remained unscarred . |
| 15 | We , for our part , would have put it the other way , by expressing appreciation to the people from other churches both for their ready and effective response to our request for help and for the way they enlivened our company . |
| 16 | I say I would have found you the cheapest ones , and they were good quality ones as well , you know you go to some of these garden centres and |
| 17 | Whichever way it will have cost you the best part of £100 for the first survey , and this is not refundable . |