Example sentences of "[modal v] have [verb] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having been taught that , at a time when priests were not disagreed with , it is small wonder that John Kennedy should have involved himself , and thousands after him , in an anti-Communist crusade in Vietnam ; that Joseph McCarthy should have conducted his anti-Communist witch-hunts ; or that Casey should have made the fight against Communism his life 's work , even asking that money should be given after his death not for flowers , but for the contras . |
| 2 | The deputy judge refused probate of the 1982 document on the grounds that it had not been duly executed in that , although the amendment by section 17 of the Administration of Justice Act 1982 of section 9 of the Wills Act 1837 allowed a valid signature to be made otherwise than at the foot of the will , it had not altered the requirement that the testator should have made his will before signing it ; and that , in any event , the testator had lacked testamentary capacity . |
| 3 | Bad enough that Richard should have annexed his girl friend , without being left with Richard 's boring wife … |
| 4 | She 'd no idea why Ace should have broken his date with Dara to spend the evening with her , but it certainly looked as if by doing so he 'd stirred up some pretty powerful emotions . |
| 5 | I felt very sorry that someone who was a partly trained civil engineer should have to waste his time sweeping floors and doing other such menial tasks , but that 's how it was — he was one of the unlucky ones — or should I say lucky ? |
| 6 | What he produced was a volume for which he really should have kept his title The Conduct of the Kitchen — a title borrowed incidentally from Meredith — because that was just what the book of menus was about : the logical and orderly conduct of a kitchen as related to daily life and seen not through the medium of a few isolated menus for special occasions , but as part of the natural order of everyday living . |
| 7 | Further , if s 284 did apply , then the judge should have exercised his discretion to ratify the transaction , as the section permits . |
| 8 | If it is that the Court of Appeal should have relisted his case , then his application would have to have been made to the Commission by March 1991 . |
| 9 | ‘ Same reason as he should have said his was . |
| 10 | She knew that she should have resented his touch , but now it comforted her . |
| 11 | Collins ' form has been as stable as his club 's progress has been erratic this season and the player feels he should have represented his country more often than he has done . |
| 12 | Here Helen Renshaw selects cards from people who should have followed his example . |
| 13 | Davy Dennison , who was having a quiet first half , should have increased his side 's lead four minutes before the break . |
| 14 | ‘ He should have called his paper ‘ Why I am a great critic ’ , a disciple sadly remarked on leaving one of his seminars . |
| 15 | A responsible staff … should have called his attention to the violations of his own policies and warned that the intelligence about Iran was fragile at best and obtained from parties with strong interests and biases of their own . ’ |
| 16 | For their part , Sonnabend agree that Halley has the right to leave them but claim that he should have honoured his verbal agreement to put together the 1991 May show . |
| 17 | Two hundred and fifty five , and if we did it to he 's absolutely right , erm then this one should have given his bearing as two fifty three minus seventy , which comes to , what does that come to ? |
| 18 | Now she thinks , not his cock but his tongue , I should have cut his tongue out with them , his slow quicksilver tongue ; for he partly took me backwards out of my joy , into an old timidity that 's there still ; and it 's made a meal of me sometimes teaching , when the sharper ones have had me squirming for my lazy luck . |
| 19 | This personage reflected , somewhat grimly , that the first thing he should have to teach his little charge would be to appear to address himself to his mother when he spoke to her — especially not to make her such an Improper answer as that ( 6 ) . |
| 20 | During winter Mr Smith should have fed his stock 60 bales of silage . |
| 21 | Moreover , such comment is liable to prove all the more harmful after a Calcutta Cup in which — for all the criticism that the scrum-half should have fed his backs more — Morris so tellingly demonstrated with Stuart Barnes the value under the current laws of having two half-backs , each of whom poses a very real threat in his own right . |
| 22 | He listened before he let himself out of the cellar , but there still seemed to be nobody around ; Reynolds felt gritty and smeared , at an unhappy disadvantage if he should have to lie his way out of an embarrassing situation . |
| 23 | But Mr. Thornton forcefully submits that no more is required to sustain the plea than that the court before whom the defendant had previously been charged should have decided his guilt , whether by the court , where it is the tribunal of fact , announcing its decision to that effect , by the return of a guilty verdict by the jury or by the ‘ acceptance ’ of a plea of guilty . |
| 24 | 507 , which involved the identification of the driver of a car , counsel submitted that the trial judge should have granted his application to see the statement of the Crown witness who had given the police a description of the driver . |
| 25 | Fleischmann told me that in his opinion Jones should have declared his interest to Gajewski more explicitly , not merely that he was interested in the problem , and should have informed Gajewski of his results at that time so that there would be no ambiguity about claims for priority . |
| 26 | ‘ You should have seen his face when I told him ! |
| 27 | You should have seen his desk of a morning . |
| 28 | You really should have seen his face , love , it was quite priceless . ’ |
| 29 | JIMMY , I think he should do your job and you should have done his . |
| 30 | Dame Barbara Cartland , 91 JIMMY , I think he should do your job and you should have done his . |