Example sentences of "n't have [vb pp] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They need n't have flattered themselves . |
| 2 | She wanted to turn tail and run , but she could n't have stood herself if she appeared such a coward . |
| 3 | ‘ She should n't have given herself . ’ |
| 4 | I could n't have exposed myself as he and Sergei had done . |
| 5 | You really need n't have troubled yourself to come looking for me . ’ |
| 6 | If he succumbs to temptation after all and suffers the consequences , it would be to the point to say ‘ You should have known better ’ or ‘ You ought to have had more sense ’ , reproaches which derive their authority from ‘ Face facts ’ ; but it would be irrelevant ( and exasperating ) to say ‘ You should n't have made yourself ill like that ’ , on the authority of the ‘ You do n't want to be sick ’ of the practical syllogism interpreted as ‘ Do n't get sick ’ . |
| 7 | I would n't have lent myself to any schemes like that . |
| 8 | If she 'd stayed in a fit state then she would n't have found herself in this situation now . |
| 9 | I would n't have known myself , but I happen to have a pair of ears in that establishment . |
| 10 | But I should n't have let myself get near that cringing landlord . |
| 11 | I should n't have let myself fall in love with him ! she thought angrily . |
| 12 | ‘ I am in the pink , ’ said Dot , though she knew she was n't or she would n't have allowed herself to weep the day before . |
| 13 | Even a trial separation from Barnet was too much for Fry , who says that he could n't have looked himself in the mirror if he 'd refused to come back . |
| 14 | He would n't have described himself as landed gentry — or if he did it would be with irony . |
| 15 | They could n't have sorted themselves out then I do n't know what they can do . |