Example sentences of "have [vb pp] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even when I recognized MacQuillan and he might have sensed me looking , he did n't glance up at me . |
| 2 | Although it might be useful cos they might have given I suppose might n't they ? |
| 3 | As you may have heard me mention already , I am involved in organising a one month summer school for 40 soviet teachers of English this July . |
| 4 | Had they bothered to look in on that Standing Committee , they would have heard me make it clear that the Government will be working in co-operation with our European Community colleagues to find a way of reducing carbon dioxide emissions effectively . |
| 5 | As some of you may have heard me observe , it has indeed been a sombre year . |
| 6 | ‘ And , if you 'd given me the chance to finish , you would also have heard me specify ‘ for the general collection ’ . |
| 7 | My hon. Friend is a charming relative newcomer to this place and we are delighted that she is here , but if she had been here as long as I have — getting on for 18 years now — she would have heard me banging on about exactly that point . |
| 8 | Some of you may have heard me say before that when I was a young ordinand I met up with a marvellous Canadian bishop , Ralph Dean . |
| 9 | You must have heard me say them . |
| 10 | But she must have heard me say so , because at seven she came down and said she 'd overlooked this marvellous Stockhausen concert on Two — well , I just put on my coat and flung out of the house … |
| 11 | If he had , he would have heard me say that it was for the Attorney-General to enforce the law , not the Government . |
| 12 | But once again John would have heard I hope something different on the phone . |
| 13 | Nobody could have recognized me walking up Stuart Street . |
| 14 | Whereas before the insecurity would have been there , I suppose , that might have stopped me trying things . |
| 15 | A sentence such as ( 8 ) below could refer to the past ( How could you have expected me to know the answers to those questions which you asked me last week ? ) , the present ( Why are you asking me ? |
| 16 | ‘ If anything had happened to your precious boat , or we 'd both drowned , you 'd never have let me forget — ’ Her voice trailed off as she recognised the absurdity of what she was saying . |
| 17 | You should have let me go . ’ |
| 18 | Right I shall have let me go and get the matches . |
| 19 | at the moment , and I think I would be some people would not have let me do that , I think , in the past |
| 20 | ‘ Otherwise ’ , she says , ‘ they would n't have let me do it . |
| 21 | ‘ Editorial ’ , she notes , ‘ did n't regard it as important , otherwise they would n't have let me do it . ’ |
| 22 | The Miss Cardings next door , they would have let me stay there until I got myself sorted out . |
| 23 | ‘ I should have liked to be a nun , except they would n't have let me smoke and I could n't live without cigarettes . |
| 24 | Think what I shall say is , I shall myself quite simply , if it ever gets out I 'll say well look I know full well that you would n't have let me stop at Helena 's you would have objected to it I said , but Andy 's mum and dad , Andy was like pretty bad so we left him there and I said I stopped up to help look after him . |
| 25 | My father would never have let me start digging up our graveyard for family pets otherwise , so off they had to go , departing this life in the rather undignified garb of half a badminton shuttlecock . |
| 26 | ‘ You should have let me know you were coming earlier , I 'd have had a car waiting at the airport for you . ’ |
| 27 | Or she 'd have let me know . |
| 28 | If you 'd have let me know I could have |
| 29 | Perhaps you 'd have let me know we could have gone for a beer . |
| 30 | Still , I suppose I ca n't complain : you could have let me drown , after all . ’ |