Example sentences of "[vb mod] [vb infin] [vb pp] [adv] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm running back to my office to make all the phone calls I should have made already this morning ; Summerchild is running just in front of me , a pace and a half behind Serafin , trying to catch the various pearls now flying back unrecorded over her hurrying shoulder . |
| 2 | It was widely felt that Kohl should have visited both this site and other scenes where anti-foreigner and anti-Semitic attacks had taken place . |
| 3 | An experienced photographer should have pointed out these things but it is sensible to acquaint yourself with some basic knowledge . |
| 4 | Within Whitehall , therefore , there was surprise and concern that evacuation should have revealed so many symptoms of inner-city poverty , but the reaction of officials to these revelations was to seek their cause in working-class mores rather than to swing round to support for increased State intervention to raise living standards . |
| 5 | ‘ Danker , ’ said the man in battle-dress , and to me : ‘ Hullo , old boy ’ as if it was inevitable that I should have come there some time or other , and went on throwing the ball about . |
| 6 | It is ironical that one of the most beneficial developments of the war years , the Representation of the People Act of 1918 , should have occasioned so much party opposition . |
| 7 | The question is not why readers should be conservative , but why type-founders should have found so many excuses to redraw the alphabet . |
| 8 | It seemed so sad that Mrs MacAllister should have had so little time to enjoy this beauty and that he should be left here by himself . ’ |
| 9 | By that time we should have sorted out this business of the poison pen letter and you 'll be able to get back to a normal life again . ’ |
| 10 | But Dawn , you should have carried on that course man . |
| 11 | It had all seemed part of the wonder : that it should have happened just this Jubilee summer . |
| 12 | He must have kissed so many women … |
| 13 | The marriage must have broken up some time in 1980 . |
| 14 | You must have noticed how most people see change as a threat , something to deny . |
| 15 | It must have stirred up some memories for her , days of wine and roses , eh ? |
| 16 | He must have slept nearly all night . |
| 17 | If he had been at the Sex of One … party , he must have driven down some time between the small hours-of the Sunday morning and when he rang Keith Battrick-Jones on the Monday morning . |
| 18 | Only , I think , in so far as I 've seen so many pictures over the years that I must have picked up some knowledge and a sort of an overview of what there is in English art , so that I can make better comparisons . |
| 19 | The boys were growing up so fast , but they were still young enough to be intensely impatient at any delay in the opening of the presents , and Dad must have worked hard this morning to persuade them to wait . |
| 20 | His life must have changed dramatically that June day three years ago . |
| 21 | It seems that many Breton lords relied heavily upon the profits of wreck to boost their incomes , and to abolish it might have caused yet another rebellion in an area where Angevin control was still fairly fragile . |
| 22 | I think that might have gone actually this morning . |
| 23 | Folly realised belatedly that she might have stirred up some trouble for her informant . |
| 24 | Whilst it is true to say that it might have started off that way ( call me a sceptic if you will ) , it has now found itself a major market position . |
| 25 | Interest in the possibility that neutrinos might oscillate intensified later that year with the result from an experiment at the Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics at Moscow , which implied a small mass of 34 electron volts for the electron-antineutrino ( the electron 's mass is 0–5 million electron volts ) . |
| 26 | The defection of the Nevilles could have done considerably more damage to the royal affinity which had developed in the north in the 1460s . |
| 27 | The defection of the Nevilles could have done considerably more damage to the royal affinity which had developed in the north in the 1460s . |
| 28 | No other bishop could have done so much harm to Philip as Conrad . |
| 29 | Neither had she , Maggie thought , feeling she could have stood there all day gawping up at it . |
| 30 | She could have stood there all day listening to him repeat it over and over again . |