Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] have [vb pp] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where the minister and elders of a church have decided to pursue an application for demolition , remember they may only have come to this decision as a last resort , perhaps having received advice that there was no possibility of alternative use . |
| 2 | She should not have gone to that party . |
| 3 | He should not have lost with such a lead . |
| 4 | If I had held that the disturbance to residents in those roads was otherwise actionable in nuisance , I should not have acceded to those submissions . |
| 5 | ‘ We should not have come at all . ’ |
| 6 | She should not have come on this picnic . |
| 7 | Foreplay , for instance , can rightly be defined as an activity intended to culminate in sexual intercourse , which means an engaged couple should not have entered into this yet . |
| 8 | The French high command must also have known for some time , but hushed it up no doubt . ’ |
| 9 | The question was one which must often have arisen in this period of extensive rebuilding : Did an altar require to be reconsecrated after it had been moved ? |
| 10 | Even though we should now have reached beyond this view there is still lingering uncertainty as to what the world of experience and thought is when perceived through a language such as BSL . |
| 11 | He should really have gone to that inquest . |
| 12 | But the rest of the act lacks this savagery and Posner should surely have aimed for more laughs earlier — at present the audience only relaxes , by the usual process of familiarity , around the half way mark . |
| 13 | Her eyes were swollen — she should n't have wept like that , genuinely . |
| 14 | I should n't have known about that , should I ? |
| 15 | ‘ I think we might be safer with him , ’ Anne said , ‘ but I still think that fellow should n't have spoken like that to Mr Chamberlain . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Or perhaps I should n't have come at all . |
| 17 | Without for one moment implying any impropriety , this last episode demonstrates how deliciously appropriate it is that Mr Wyatt should subsequently have struck up such a warm friendship with the world 's foremost collector of air miles . |
| 18 | If t re is one country that should never have gambled in this game , i is Britain . |
| 19 | ‘ She should never have suffered like that , ’ Carrie said . |
| 20 | It must certainly have looked like that , she realised . |
| 21 | ELL , I 've had a happy life ’ — as Hazlitt may not have said after all , in which case bang goes the cheeriest of all the Famous Last Words . |
| 22 | You may not have heard of some of these things , but one day you probably will . |
| 23 | The SSR description should , where appropriate , restate any problems reported by the SPR to which it relates , since it is likely that the person who reported the original situation was not aware of the true cause , or may not have known of any related problems . |
| 24 | Or you may not have thought at all . |
| 25 | This may already have happened in those species that will not tolerate a strange egg in the nest . |
| 26 | They might not have existed for all the notice Miss Jarman took . |
| 27 | The most successful perhaps were those acquired as teacher training colleges , such as Wentworth Castle and Wentworth Woodhouse which , without such use , might not have survived at all . |
| 28 | On the other hand , the charterer himself might not have dealt with any or all shippers , because he delegated this function to the vessel 's master . |
| 29 | I might just have thought of some new names to call you . ’ |
| 30 | You must get out of this place and do the one good thinking you 'll ever have done for any woman . |