Example sentences of "[modal v] have [verb] me [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reason should have told me that instant acceptance was too much to ask , but I was overwhelmed by my emotional need for an endorsement , however small , of my situation . |
| 2 | You must have bought me that and I dropped it . |
| 3 | Cos our Corrinne must have fetched me some drinking chocolate she fetched me . |
| 4 | She said , ‘ You 'll have to give me some money out of the housekeeping . |
| 5 | You 'll have to give me those batteries back . |
| 6 | ‘ You might have told me that . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I mean that it might have taken me some time to see through your ‘ innocent abroad ’ act . |
| 8 | ‘ You could have killed me any time you wanted to , ’ Sheldukher sneered sadistically down at it , ‘ just by shutting down life support . |
| 9 | Nobody else really liked it , and my dad used to say that he could have sent me any old rubbish in the post and I would have liked it . ’ |
| 10 | Now is it only K X that could have given me that ? |
| 11 | I said , well , you could have told me that to tell her ! |
| 12 | ‘ I wish I had ; ‘ t would have given me some hope that you might come to care for me . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I had hoped that joining Derry would have given me some hunger back for the game but it just has n't happened , ’ said Doherty . |
| 14 | ‘ A simple phone call to tell me about the problem would have saved me all this fuss and expense . ’ |
| 15 | I do n't believe that the fans would have caused me any problem . |
| 16 | That would have suited me that and a loaf of bread . |
| 17 | Doris cuddled me on the way to the door but she must have let go for an instant ( perhaps I goosed her too eagerly ) because I went off on a run that would have taken me all the way downtown — further , to the Village , to Martina Twain — if the dessert trolley had n't been there to check my sprint . |