Example sentences of "i [modal v] have [vb pp] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | it would have been a matter that I may have raised at our board meeting , again , again , that would have been passed on |
| 2 | I do n't know , I always said I 'd never took the piss out of these children , but I 'm sure I must have done at school , but I must admit I was embarrassed . |
| 3 | J. says I must have eaten at least three of the pounds myself , but that 's just his usual exaggeration . |
| 4 | Anyway he looked like that he had a red car and he was sitting in the car and he put them down like that and they were like that in the car and after I thought I should 've popped at her house see if she 's wearing that in the house I thought you git . |
| 5 | Perhaps I should have said at the beginning , although I hope it 's obvious , that the speaker of this poem is , of course , coming back to the town where he was born . |
| 6 | ‘ I should have stayed at home , ’ said Cameron . |
| 7 | The lads said I should have stayed at home . |
| 8 | ‘ I ca n't look back and say , ‘ hey , maybe I should have stayed at school ’ . |
| 9 | I think I should have stayed at the old school where they had confidence in me . |
| 10 | ‘ I should have realized at once — that Frenchman who was killed , the same poison must still have been on the skin of his attackers , and it would almost certainly still have been strong enough to affect him as well ! |
| 11 | ( Now the chaplain thinks I should have sprung at him . |
| 12 | I should have screamed at the start — whenever the start could now be said to be . |
| 13 | Then , alone there in his room , I began to laugh , as I should have laughed at the time . |
| 14 | I should have looked at me plants today . |
| 15 | I might have travelled at almost eight thousand inches an hour if it had n't been for the stops . |
| 16 | Another time I might have bristled at the idea of being overseen , at work . |
| 17 | I might have looked at her outside the church and seen just another assembly-line bride . |
| 18 | Sometimes it is the Had I But Known what grim secret lurked beneath the smiling exterior I would never have set foot within the door ; Sometimes the Had I But Known then what I know now , I could have saved at least three lives by revealing to the Inspector the conversation I heard through that fortuitous hole in the floor . |
| 19 | I could have stayed at Street till I was fourteen , I could have stayed at Street until I was fourteen , and then you would 've been out . |
| 20 | I could have stayed at Street till I was fourteen , I could have stayed at Street until I was fourteen , and then you would 've been out . |
| 21 | I could have stood at the window all afternoon , |
| 22 | So she said what it was , and then looking through it , it actually certainly we could have done with a fle I could have looked at the the flexible thing before we came to the meeting , because it |
| 23 | At any other time I 'd have laughed at this innocent self-betrayal ; just now it did n't seem funny , only irritating . |
| 24 | Yes er we 've five games now and er although we have n't won as as many as I would 've liked at least erm we 've stayed unbeaten . |
| 25 | And the fact that your wife is erm there was something that could 've possibly been done for your wife and that is something that maybe I would 've mentioned at the end , do you think this would of be any benefit to the wife only as maybe an ending statement or something |
| 26 | I would have said at forty one you know you er you 're still probably young enough to get a salaried job but we decided that it might be worth er you trying this avenue . |
| 27 | I assaulted this position from every angle , ranging from thoughtful analyses of the male mid-life crisis , its nature and origins , to sweeping ad absurdum dismissals in which I demonstrated that by the same token Trish and Brian were equally culpable , because if they 'd gone out for the day I would have stayed at home and we would never have met in the first place . |
| 28 | If I were Batty I would have jumped at the offer . |
| 29 | It was a poor excuse … but I would have jumped at anything by that time . |
| 30 | If he had come begging and pleading , I would have laughed at him and kicked him in the teeth . |