Example sentences of "[modal v] n't have [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or perhaps even that he and I together , in as filthy moods as we were , must n't have looked like the sort of people even a policeman should risk messing with . |
| 2 | ‘ With hindsight , perhaps we should n't have gone into a peripheral business , ’ he concedes . |
| 3 | I know I should n't have gone near the sea , but I did it as a protest . |
| 4 | That book is all about the idea that the world is divided into the ordinary and the extraordinary , and that the extraordinary should n't have to live by the dictates of the mediocre majority . |
| 5 | Is it a new editorial policy that New Scientist will investigate the number and source of replies to advertisements within its pages and then print snide remarks about why the unsuccessful applicants should n't have applied in the first place ? |
| 6 | We should n't have met at the apartment . |
| 7 | I should n't have thought of the blinking . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ People should n't have to start from the beginning every time . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I should n't have looked at the paper — ’ |
| 10 | Where I 'm from , I should n't have to worry about a black cop beating me upside the head when he 's with his white partner , you know , and that happens a lot . ’ |
| 11 | When planning staff at Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire said the Union flag outside the Bell Hotel in the town needed planning permission because the flag pole was n't vertical , they could n't have guessed at the outcry . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'll bet he could n't have survived with the rest of us . |
| 13 | For a teaching museum we could n't have hoped for a better gift . |
| 14 | ‘ We could n't have hoped for a better first few weeks of the tour . |
| 15 | And in the news business it is generally reckoned it could n't have gone to a nicer bloke . |
| 16 | I could n't have gone to a better place because they 'd got most parts of the country and one thing and another and I fitted their bill to a tee . |
| 17 | Shame they could n't have stumbled upon a more dramatic way of doing it . |
| 18 | Wright could n't have asked for a better way to celebrate his 29th birthday today . |
| 19 | I could n't have asked for a better family ! |
| 20 | And I could n't have done without the bike . |
| 21 | I felt … well , the offer could n't have come at a more opportune time , could it ? ’ |
| 22 | ‘ The cash could n't have come at a better time , ’ said George at their home in Swansea , Wales . |
| 23 | " You could n't have come at a better time , " said Fleury cheerfully . |
| 24 | ‘ This holiday has been a godsend and could n't have come at a better time . |
| 25 | I 'm afraid it could n't have come at a worse time . |
| 26 | It could n't have come at a better time . |
| 27 | League Cup success could n't have come at a better time for Rangers , nor for that matter could the return to goalscoring form of Ally McCoist . |
| 28 | League Cup success could n't have come at a better time for Rangers , nor for that matter could the return to goalscoring form of Ally McCoist . |
| 29 | But he gave her a smouldering glance and said , ‘ This change in the weather could n't have come at a worse time . |
| 30 | That 's his first for the club and could n't have come at a better time for Hereford , though . |