Example sentences of "and what [vb mod] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their lights picked out the graffiti of long-dead people — prayers , curses , obscenities , threats — and what might have been messages in alien script or in the calligraphy of madness . |
| 2 | I was filled with a dry sadness , a mixture of remembering and knowing ; remembering what was and what might have been and knowing it was all past ; at the same time knowing , or beginning to know , that other things were happily past — at least some of my illusions about myself , and then the syphilis , for there were no signs that it was going to come back . |
| 3 | Well , his theory was that this guy was a writer or something , a historian or somebody like that , and Freud said it 's quite likely that in the past he had had either dreams about a similar dream or conscious fantasies about how he would have felt if he 'd been in the French Revolution and what might have happened to him . |
| 4 | Klima 's first loves have a way of not working out ; and what may have been his longest affair is the one about which least is said . |
| 5 | And what would have been my sickness . |
| 6 | Several readers have asked if the kick was correctly taken , and what would have been the decision if defending players not on the goal-line had prevented Brooke from scoring a try . |
| 7 | Yes well I I , I mean you erm you posed the question whether it was a good or bad thing , this change erm I can only the results of the change and what would have happened if the change had not taken place or try to er see what the change , it would seem to me that the alternative er would have been a continuance of er possibly erm a kind of Kuomintang erm type of policy which encouraged erm other nationalities to develop China as beginning to happen now . |
| 8 | And what would have been the point ? |
| 9 | A hook solved the initial problem , then a long , unprotected traverse ( great fun seconding ! ) led to more blank wall and what must have been some truly desperate leading . |
| 10 | And what should have been a piece of gaily irresponsible nonsense becomes impregnated with evil . ’ |
| 11 | This is important if you are to learn whether you have achieved your objectives and what should have been handled differently . |
| 12 | And what should have been a doddle for Lord Waddington turned into a disaster . |
| 13 | It 's more the affair with a possible future that devastates — the emotional betrayal and the recognition that he gave part of himself and what should have been your time and your lives to another person . ’ |
| 14 | List what went well and what could have gone better . |
| 15 | If Donuel ( Domnall ) , father of Talorcan 's successors in the kingship of the Picts , first Gartnait and then Drest , could be securely identified as Domnall Brecc , formerly king of Dál Riata , Gartnait and Drest could perhaps be viewed as the beneficiaries of an alliance between the Scots and the northern Angles against the Picts ; but Donuel 's identification with Domnall Brecc is not certain , and what could have been a break in the succession of kings of the Picts occurred from 663 to 665/6 between the death of Gartnait and the accession of Drest . |
| 16 | He stared at the rows of glass jars below the books on the walls — and saw an eye staring back at him from one of them , and what could have been a human foetus in another . |
| 17 | But ultimately it is lost in a quagmire of stylistic density and what could have been a startling book ends up feeling turgid . |
| 18 | Fortune smiled on me that night , and what could have been a disaster was averted . |