Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [verb] [pers pn] in the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Even if he had thought that his parents were still there — which I found hard to believe — he could have visited them in the morning . |
| 32 | Her desire for such a life was so passionate , and her gratitude to Walter for this glimpse of it was so great that she could have kissed him in the street , and later that day she did in fact allow him to undo her brassiere strap without a word of protest . |
| 33 | Then the man was running , and Blagg could have shot him in the back but he had only one round left . |
| 34 | Heydrich could have shot him in the head . |
| 35 | Ultimately , it was all too easy for Sainz , who could afford to enjoy the scenery in yesterday 's Scottish forest stages after Kankkunnen , the only man who could have overhauled him in the world title race , lost crucial time when his Lancia hit a rock . |
| 36 | I only wish Daddy could have seen me in the black lace dress . |
| 37 | But who could have seen her in the park and reported back this quickly ? |
| 38 | She had a view through the windscreen but no one could have seen her in the back . |
| 39 | I know , he could have knocked me in the eye instead of just at the side and it hurts now . |
| 40 | He could have parked it in the Hilton garage , but if he needed to leave suddenly that might be dangerous . |
| 41 | I 'd have joined him in the Abacos if he 'd asked me , little holidays from time to time . |
| 42 | If they 'd come we 'd have had them in the bathroom . |
| 43 | They were heavy : I 'd have to wedge them in the middle so they did n't drag me down sideways . |
| 44 | She loved to play like that , but she 'd have told me in the end , exploding with laughter at my angry duped expression . |
| 45 | They 'd have put her in the freak show , confessing how misled she was by capitalist gold . |
| 46 | No , mum said if they 'd have come erm , she 'd have put them in the bathroom . |
| 47 | She 'd have to catch him in the morning — But catch him she would , she vowed silently . |
| 48 | This section of the book is designed to help you come to terms with your deepest emotions and the people or events which may have caused them in the first place . |
| 49 | The fact that she would return to the same workhouse 10 years later was in itself not untypical ; many genuine helpers in such institutions may have had it in the back of their minds that one day they would become the cared for , rather than the person doing the caring , as old age took its toll . |
| 50 | The self-confidence inspired by his Eton and Trinity background may have helped him in the several differences of opinion he has encountered in his life . |
| 51 | It also supposes that vigorous enough action in the early stages of the civil rights movement would have nipped it in the bud and restored Northern Ireland to stability . |
| 52 | No one would have constructed them in the form they have if he had not known that at all costs he must , when it comes to experimental predictions , obtain those same results which the statistically interpreted Schrödinger equation seems to produce so economically and naturally . |
| 53 | It would have struck him in the face if at the last moment , sensing it coming , he had not ducked his head . |
| 54 | After he told them about this , they sent one letter from Siam covered with stamps : ‘ Those would have kept me in The Autocar for ever , but I could n't bear to part with the envelope . ’ |
| 55 | Few of the cast would have seen him in the revues of the late thirties where his career started , but they would all have caught up with the films he had made in the immediate post-war years . |
| 56 | Three of you are unlocked and you come down and there are prison officers standing everywhere — to me that was stupid , because if the women wanted to riot they would have done it in the dining hall there and then . |
| 57 | if it is not clear how the words were in fact understood , the question is how a reasonable listener would have interpreted them in the particular context . |
| 58 | Now if some of the mathematics they had learnt had been relevant to them and interesting to them maybe they would have remembered it in the same way they 've remembered plenty of other things that are important to them . |
| 59 | In fact , he was so eager to be off that he would have left it in the street if I had not insisted that he should take the coals to his mother . ’ |
| 60 | And his colleagues would have read it in the journal anyway . |