Example sentences of "it [modal v] [verb] [verb] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , it must 've cost him that to take them over there . |
| 2 | The clock chimed in the hall : it must have done it several times but I had n't heard . |
| 3 | For them , it must be almost a relief to walk around listening to the cocks crowing or the cows mooing — it must help to keep them sane . |
| 4 | And er so that 's er I stopped on six months , being an orderly , because I could n't go back into tailoring , obviously , because er it might have aggravated it all again . |
| 5 | It might have given him some small comfort to know that , 75 years later , hydro-electric power was successfully produced a few miles away at Coaley Mill . |
| 6 | Instead of seventy dead , it might have cost him five hundred , a thousand , to destroy Siward 's army so that it could neither attack him nor follow him . |
| 7 | If they had been invited it might have made it easier , since it would have allowed him to slip away unnoticed . |
| 8 | ‘ I mean that it might have taken me some time to see through your ‘ innocent abroad ’ act . |
| 9 | Making money on speculative stocks was a far more remote possibility than on British Telecom or TSB , although it might have taken them six months or longer to discover the bitter truth . |
| 10 | He pointed to Unix International as a forum for limiting the damage caused by arguments over technology , and said that the UI RoadMap of future Unix developments would be broadened to encompass technology from other member companies aside from USL itself : ‘ It 'll help keep them honest ’ . |
| 11 | You felt that if the right component was put into the equation it could help tackle them all . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ It could have made me rich , but I do n't regret it . |
| 13 | It could have saved him this time , but the policeman , half nerved up for aggression , caught him fairly in the doorway and hung on with professional ease . |
| 14 | It would 've given us another month to play with at least . |
| 15 | In his memoirs he admitted that he had secretly aspired to it for decades , but had not pressed the issue for tactical reasons ( because it would have made him vulnerable to the charge of Bonapartism and perhaps also , as Debré argued in his memoirs , because popular election of the president in the circumstances of 1958 would have placed a majority of votes in the hands of the peoples of the French Community ) . |
| 16 | It would have made him unable to race . ’ |
| 17 | It would have made it easier to help you , and I venture the opinion that our servants feel well treated . |
| 18 | The twelve-hour shift pattern was also an obstacle to change in that it would have made it difficult to recruit new staff for hospital development . |
| 19 | Dowd had stayed out of the Retreat all the time he 'd waited for Godolphin ( a wearisome three days ) even though it would have given him some measure of protection against the bitter cold . |
| 20 | She could have had my right arm if it would have given her any pleasure . |
| 21 | I wanted her to have an abortion because it would have given us more time to get ourselves sorted out and get our life going together before bringing another person into it . |
| 22 | I should have thought it would have kept him busy until nine or later . |
| 23 | If they had just kept the stuff they removed , it would have saved us six months of work . ’ |
| 24 | Er had they got their way every time we put a cheque in or took one out or moved money from one account to another it would have cost us eighty pence , which meant that had anybody paid their their fees to the er and made the cheque payable to us directly , we would have had to bank that cheque and then reissue another cheque er to the appropriate department and that would have cost us one pound sixty , for which we 'd have got nothing . |
| 25 | ‘ You could n't have taken it on , even you would have had to see that , but it would have worried you sick . |
| 26 | It would have taken him all day even if they 'd had enough tarmac in the back of the pickup ! |
| 27 | I could see that , had he embarked upon the paper , it would have left me conscience-stricken in my turn . |
| 28 | It would have driven me mad to have been stuck behind a sewing machine all day , which some of my friends were . |
| 29 | Fortunately the rain held off , but walking with Ven , his knowledge of the area seemingly limitless , Fabia doubted that it would have bothered her all that much had the heavens opened . |
| 30 | Closing her eyes , she melted into his embrace , willingly parted her mouth for him — and she truly had n't known , until now , how many ways there were to kiss — or what a gloriously long time it would take to discover them all . |