Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [pers pn] [vb mod] have " in BNC.

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1 He nevertheless maintained that it would have been irresponsible of him to have gone forward without warning colleagues of his reservations .
2 If he 'd broken her arm , she doubted that it would have altered his tone or his attitude in any way .
3 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 .
4 It seemed to me that he was colder now , disappointed that I should have been found to have anything so hostile as escape equipment in my pockets .
5 But then she found that she must have been without noticing , for she discovered that there was writing everywhere which she could read without even trying .
6 The Law Lords found that she should have been fully informed by the bank that she was risking her whole house by guaranteeing a loan to her husband 's business , not the limited amount she believed at the time .
7 The teller then offered to accept their count , but the Zuwaya objected that he might have stolen more than a hundred votes .
8 The walls were lined with layers of raincoats of a uniform dun , as though their colours had run together ; they went back years — some had even belonged to her father and were so stiff and cracked that they could have stood unsupported .
9 But he doubted if he could have stood her voice for a full evening ; it grated on him when she chatted him up over the counter .
10 I tried and I would have succeeded .
11 I grumbled because I would have to remain several days more without Pinard .
12 Saturday was the one day on which he seemed to arrive early at the Herald office , but she doubted whether he would have got there yet .
13 She doubted whether she could have told the difference if she had n't known .
14 When Philip of Colombière 's nephew killed the niece of the bishop of Bayeaux , King Henry II 's court behaved as it would have done in the previous century in reconciling the parties by arranging a settlement between them .
15 But even with the camera occasionally disconnected we realized that we would have to be incredibly lucky to overpower a guard in our room without alarming whoever was upstairs .
16 Well I mo moved because promotion was in the line for me , I was in the Royal Marine Police in island depot in Plymouth and er I 'd been put on plain clothes work and I 'd been doing acting sergeant you know when the sergeant was off sick and all that business and er I 'd put , been put in for this to move because we had a two bedroom bungalow but the twins were getting big and I realized that we 'd have to have another bedroom you know , very soon and er , this seemed an opportunity to get a house and also in Plymouth , that Plymouth was a naval town , you see , there was still those days there was still kind of a , a lower deck of sons , what they call lower deckers , in other words you know people in the lower deck of the navy , their sons did n't really have much , ever have much chance of getting into places like Dartmouth College or Cramwell to do as cadets , well the headmaster at Regent Street School had said to me that Keith was very keen on flying , he was aeroplane mad you see , and , he wanted to go in the Royal Air Force , well he said to me he said oh no put him in the Navy and as a chief art as an artificer , so I said oh no , I said if he goes in the Navy or the service I want him to go in the front door not like me the back door , I had ambition for him
17 Having lost their serfs , they realized that they would have to alter not only the basis on which they conducted their money-raising activities , but also perhaps the activities themselves .
18 Although he mistrusted the policeman , he realized that they could have both died if the Citation had crashed .
19 She had n't thought about how much of her hour remained , until bells started ringing , and she realized that they must have gone for her .
20 This confused Benny at first , until she realized that they must have been going deeper into the complex , while Froebe would have assumed she was making for the outside .
21 With regret Stirling realized that he would have to abandon offensive action that night and decided to withdraw without placing any bombs , so as not to jeopardize a future visit .
22 Leopold realized that he would have no further influence over his son 's career .
23 The more Marcus thought about it , the more he realized that he would have to seek help from Fanshawe .
24 Long before it was time to fire he realized that he would have to pull out or crash ; below fifty feet there would be no recovering , not from this angle , not at this speed .
25 I realized that I could have been in deep trouble there : I came close to inflicting a serious injury on Frank Dick .
26 In any case , the DES realized that it would have been unrealistic to insist on the receipt of fully-fledged regional plans before giving its blessing to well-founded initiatives being undertaken by institutions in the context of developing regional plans for the training of full-time staff .
27 At the time I thought little more about it , but later I realized that it must have been caused by some powerful pain-killing drug .
28 She realized that she might have made the same mistake as Joan Durbeyfield .
29 But when he surmised the attack was due that night , Tom Ingledew agreed that they would have to sacrifice some fighting capacity on that front — and even some lives — in order to gain the maximum advantage from keeping the sloop as a decoy .
30 But erm happily erm we managed to deal with the matters primarily because management agreed that we would have a meeting on a Monday and a meeting on a Thursday , both held in the afternoon , in the last hour of the working day .
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