Example sentences of "[modal v] have [vb pp] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lennox should have scored in the 75th minute when McLaughlin 's long-range strike was pushed onto the post by O'Shea , but with an open goal in front of him , Lennox sliced his shot into the side netting . |
| 2 | Les Ferdinand should have scored in the 16th minute when he escaped Shaun Teale and side-stepped goalkeeper Nigel Spink but the Rangers striker allowed Steve Staunton to get back and make two retrieving tackles in front of a gaping net . |
| 3 | So , in theory , all should have kept in the same condition as when first stored . |
| 4 | It follows that , apart from the question of the impact of Community law , such is the discretion which the courts should have exercised in the present case . |
| 5 | If that is the case , the percentage of abnormalities should have increased in the reduced number who were referred . |
| 6 | And what of the runners and riders ; all hard boiled eggs painted in the colours of the jockeys which rode , or rather , should have ridden in the National . |
| 7 | Since then I have done something I should have done in the first place : found a gap in the rushes only ten yards downstream where I can heave into the fish without pulling them into more weed . |
| 8 | So I did what I should have done in the first place , I put the wire hangers and small weights on the edges . |
| 9 | ‘ Probably what I should have done in the first place . |
| 10 | In respect of in public services , it was a minefield for a long time and perhaps we did not react as we should have done in the early eighties . |
| 11 | A Labour government would start to do what the Tories should have done in the oil-rich years . |
| 12 | There were also other reasons why resentment of Athens should have intensified in the late 450s : for instance , this was the period of the first cleruchies ( settlements of Athenians on allied territory abroad ) . |
| 13 | It stands solidly still , much as it must have done in the eighteen hundreds , though minus : |
| 14 | The kitchen is particularly fascinating with its full array of cooking equipment looking much as it must have done in the 18th Century . |
| 15 | ‘ I feel I must have trained in the Dark Ages . |
| 16 | My roots and my family 's have gone deeply into the fields and woods which the General must have owned in the 18th Century . ’ |
| 17 | One of the main things that must have happened in the early evolution of living organisms was an increase in the numbers of genes participating in such cooperatives . |
| 18 | This must have happened in the late third century . |
| 19 | The buyer in possession must have acted in the normal course of business of a mercantile agent . |
| 20 | Energy must have abounded in the early walkers . |
| 21 | It is intriguing to speculate , as you stand in a swamp listening to this astounding and deafening chorus , that , although much must have changed in the millions of years since the first amphibians appeared , it was , nonetheless , an amphibian voice that first sounded over the land which , until then , had heard nothing but the chirps and whirrs of insects . |
| 22 | She thought I must have died in the previous night 's snowstorm . |
| 23 | Cottle might have remained in the Foreign Office as a Balkan expert . |
| 24 | On days when he was particularly active , other items of news which might have appeared in the ten-minute English language bulletins were squeezed out of those in the Zambian languages . |
| 25 | From the outset d'Indy 's editorial colleague Charles Malherbe , in his collation of sources , had ensured that , whatever might have appeared in the main texts , the appendices to each volume contained nothing untoward . |
| 26 | Any man who had to endure what you endured might have reacted in the same way ’ ( our emphasis ) . |
| 27 | Voeller might have scored in the 24th minute had it not been for Andy Goram 's fine save from a powerful 20-yard shot , but seven minutes later he set up Marseille 's opener . |
| 28 | Today , we 're concentrating on the videos you might have bought in the last 12 months . |
| 29 | Predictably the latter stages were nervous and tense for Luton and the visitors might have levelled in the 73rd minute . |
| 30 | They might have sat in the same prison cell as he was sitting in now . |