Example sentences of "[prep] it [pron] [modal v] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I 'd thought of it I 'd have sent her a message : You wo n't be welcome . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Come to think of it I 'd have given you the oranges even if you 'd said no . ’ |
| 3 | You shell out £350-odd , book into a farmhouse for a week , and at the end of it you 'll have had 35 flights and be ready to go it alone . |
| 4 | Had I spent a little more time with it I could have justified asking money for my very first attempt at using the Tascam 228 ! |
| 5 | No , know what he can do with it you 'll have to hoover up here in a minute Clare , get all this tobacco off , I 'm only joking , girl |
| 6 | Actually , there was a footpath through Wardle Wood from near her village , and if she had dared to go along it she could have walked to Brownies in not much more time than it took her to ride by way of the long winding lane ; but she was sure she had n't the courage to go through the witch 's wood by herself . |
| 7 | Their digging has cleared right down to the gravel tidy — without it they would have rendered the undergravel filter quite useless . |
| 8 | Without it they might have driven past the track and searched on fruitlessly . |
| 9 | I might have to hold on to it You 'll have to get people to you know . |
| 10 | After a flight to the east , your body is behind the new local time and to adjust to it you will have to advance your body clock . |
| 11 | On it we would have found the names of other distinguished old Summerhillians … unfortunately , Eric has been delayed at Stonehenge , and has not yet got to grips with the design . |
| 12 | The coach did not in fact crash and if he had remained on it he would have suffered no harm . |
| 13 | And it it it 's called the fog index but the thing that 's interesting about it is that I 've got , I 've got some interesting examples of fog indexes erm and you 'll get people like Churchill who sometimes made speeches and their fog index is quite small you 're going to use this you know example and they might have a fog , fog index that 's fine and what Anne and I are talking about with say something like the Telegraph or the Times or whatever , might have a fog index that people but this is because Churchill was very clear , very concise and going back to the original point about , or some of the original points about this , and I was mak raising these issues earlier this evening one of the great sadnesses that I have is that , is that when I first went into journalism the tabloids as we call them were incredibly well written beautifully styled , well researched and okay they might have been punchier and shorter and everything else , compared to the turning up the er the , the Times or whatever , but they were well written and you might have had , if you can put the fog index test , test on it you might have had a fog index of say six or seven compared to eleven on the Telegraph story , but it was still full of clarity like to read . |
| 14 | That caveat notwithstanding , those close to Mr Bush insist that there was an effort to get a non-military solution , and that if Saddam Hussein had reached out for it he could have walked away from Kuwait with something gained from his adventure . |
| 15 | You see the piece I just read is a monologue and if I 'd known there was a competition for it I 'd have sent it there rather than |
| 16 | Despite the noise of the traffic out in the piazza , the room had a peaceful sense of intimacy about it which may have had something to do with the large low beds and the subtle green and white colours . |
| 17 | Well really it 's about it I 'll have to see if there 's a carrier |
| 18 | I would have thought the mo Without knowing anything about it I would have thought the most likely explanation for that is that that the property company who own the precinct have suggested to the Council that they would like to buy the Market Hall and the Council have been sitting on it and pondering it and some bright spark has come up with the idea , Yes you can buy the Market Hall if you also buy Pembroke Hall . |
| 19 | And so he asked this girl Jane and , and then he asked me and erm and er had I sat down and thought about it I could have said well er what I thought , you know , the correct way er but I thought well there 's correct and there 's correct and I think the right way is to write to it and to say yes thanks |
| 20 | I ca n't see through it , but through it we shall have to go . |
| 21 | If you half-closed your eyes and looked at it you might have likened it to a string of coloured beads . |