Example sentences of "[prep] it [vb mod] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took the view that the upper limit is arbitrary , and might operate unfairly , since a person just above the limit receives no assistance , whereas a person just below it might have to make a substantial contribution but would have the security of knowing that that contribution represents the maximum liability for costs regardless of the actual cost or the outcome of the case . |
| 2 | Causation or some of it might have come to an end just when I set out to snuff the candles , or never existed . |
| 3 | A version of it may have heartened the Normans in 1066 ; and it is even possible that the earliest surviving version was composed in Normandy . |
| 4 | The shame of it may have caused the slight stroke that overtook him , or perhaps it preceded the disaster . |
| 5 | If there was an increase by 1545 , much of it may have come in the years after 1530 , and become important economically only after the period covered by this book ( 75 , p.69 ) . |
| 6 | None of it would have done for the Grail Castle and the gentle remote creature to whose bed Grainne was going . |
| 7 | This well known fact was somehow never discussed in public by the girls , for public admission of it would have destroyed and inhibited its oddly private thrill , and would have shamed the vain ones into cowering in their cubicles , as the timid and modest already did . |
| 8 | It is easy to picture how it looked , for the steps and ball-topped garden gate piers to the left of it would have led up to the front door , and there would have been an exact replica of this wing to the far left . |
| 9 | Ministers of Health would have incurred little or no extra criticism if they had failed to provide the services which the £25 million yielded by the prescription charges have made possible ; what criticism there was , would have been diffused over a hundred objects and none of it would have made a distinct impression on the mind of the electorate . |
| 10 | Another half-hour of it would have sealed a momentous victory . |
| 11 | B : If you 'd left me as captain , none of it would have happened . |
| 12 | None of it would have happened if it had n't been for the dog . |
| 13 | If he had not been there , none of it would have happened , but because he was there , she had to retain control . |
| 14 | If you 'd done as I asked and left me alone then none of it would have happened . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ None of it would have happened if I had n't gone chasing after Guy . ’ |
| 16 | He wondered why Pinkie mentioned Laura , then realised with sinking heart that she was no longer keeping her discontent to herself and the echo of it must have travelled for some distance . |
| 17 | I caught the rollerskating bit but am afraid the rest of it must have passed me by . |
| 18 | The senders of it must have had misgivings as to whether he would obey as they appear to have decided to back it up with physical intimidation . |
| 19 | Therefore , if the dust ages are correct then little of it could have come from the sort of rocks found in the lunar samples . |
| 20 | At that point my invariant use of it will have served its purpose , and I will reconsider my position . |
| 21 | Far from relieving the companies from burdens and expense it adds to them ; for those companies that take advantage of it will have to prepare two distinct sets of accounts and reports , the full version to circulate to their members and the expurgated version to be made available to the general public . |
| 22 | I said well I said that was the twenty first of it should have gone on the eleventh see but it did n't it go twenty first . |
| 23 | ‘ I think without any treatment , if the child was left in the situation it was in it would have died within some months , ’ he said . |
| 24 | If I 'd told you about the entry earlier on it might have lulled you into a false sense of complacency . |
| 25 | Quite good English , the icing did n't turn out as it might have done , ca n't have what it might have done . |
| 26 | The ‘ combat ’ called for here would certainly have been ‘ risky ’ for it would have led inevitably to the destruction of both the Republican party and the Reagan administration . |
| 27 | She was trembling , hot tears sprang to her eyes , she wanted to cover her face with her hands , but did not dare attempt such a defending gesture for it would have seemed a patent provocation ; besides she knew how to stand in the face of anger . |
| 28 | An improved version of the Certificate of Pre-vocational Education ( CPVE ) was on the stocks but a manager 's negotiation about it would have to take place with the City and Guilds of London Institute ( CGLI ) . |
| 29 | The fact that they had not fought about it should have announced their despair . |
| 30 | The loops and rings around it would have had small bells attached to them , and at the broken end would have been a piece of coral or ivory to act as a teether . |