Example sentences of "it [modal v] [verb] [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may have taken me a long time to find out about him . |
| 2 | It must have lulled me into a day dream . |
| 3 | I caught the rollerskating bit but am afraid the rest of it must have passed me by . |
| 4 | ‘ If I had missed it , it might have destroyed me . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Would n't have helped him much , ’ Dawson said , ‘ but it might have put me in a more relaxed frame of mind . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I mean that it might have taken me some time to see through your ‘ innocent abroad ’ act . |
| 7 | If I had had a car of my own I would have offered her a lift , however far out of my way it might have taken me . |
| 8 | ‘ It could have made me rich , but I do n't regret it . |
| 9 | It would 've taken me about four hours to do it . |
| 10 | I hoped it would stop haunting me . |
| 11 | I wanted to give her time to think over what harm it would do to tell me the truth . |
| 12 | I but it would have made me jump . |
| 13 | At least it would have given me the prospect of seeing Mary Shelley again . |
| 14 | ‘ I can not even grieve over this child , for it would have kept me here . |
| 15 | I would n't , it would have saved me a chore , . |
| 16 | ‘ It would have saved me a lot of trouble . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ It would have saved me getting my shorts and T-shirt wet ! ’ |
| 18 | I paid three times what it would have cost me to make it ! |
| 19 | I remember , again a few years ago , visiting India and buying one or two beautifully carved tables , which had obviously been carved by an individual spending quite a lot of time doing it , and I was impressed at that stage , rather naively perhaps , that if in fact I 'd bought a plain table , an uncarved one , it would have cost me about ten times as much , for the simple reason that that would require a milling machine which was not normally available , and such was the erm economy that it was cheaper for people to do this . |
| 20 | Omitting to tell his wife , he personally assumed financial responsibility for up to £11,000 and it was not until the house arrived at Wembley in March 1924 that he recovered the £6,300 that he had spent , and finally admitted to Lady Emily that he had been ‘ rather fearful of death before repayment as it would have hit me badly ! ’ |
| 21 | The money Danica gave my mother was not enough to buy one of the better sorts of bicycle , but it was no good buying a cheap one as it would have to last me for years . |
| 22 | And how long it would have taken me alone ! ’ |
| 23 | I only live a few doors down the road from Derek and normally it would have taken me just a minute or two , but on this occasion it seemed to take ages . |
| 24 | ‘ Not so many years ago it would have taken me a little longer myself . |
| 25 | It 's tremendous really , it 's an unbelievable relief for me , it would have taken me months to get used to a new cue , that 's the only cue I 've ever had er since I started playing eight years ago . |
| 26 | I could see that , had he embarked upon the paper , it would have left me conscience-stricken in my turn . |
| 27 | It would have driven me mad to have been stuck behind a sewing machine all day , which some of my friends were . |
| 28 | It would have bothered me though a few years ago . |