Example sentences of "[conj] you [modal v] have known " in BNC.

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1 ‘ There 's something Dana has n't told you that you should have known days ago , Claudia .
2 I mean sexy little telephone calls between he who will be king and his , is she a mistress , is she a girlfriend , is she merely a friend , but at any event she 's married and her husband 's in the next bedroom as far as we can gather , you know erm do those kind of conversations and would , I mean maybe it 's important to sort of say and Anne probably has this , but Peter might not , I mean when I grew up the Royal Family were a cert sort of image and you might have known about George the Third who was mad , I mean who else was brought up George the Third was mad and Geor an and this guy was a , a drunk and this guy was a a womaniser , this guy was this , but Victoria you know mourned for sixty years or whatever it was , but this Royal Family , I E the , the Royal Family with which I grew up and Anne did were really sweet nice little Windsors who behaved themselves and that was what was , went into our psychic and there was the odd crack about Phil the Great who 's the Queen 's husband , you know and how he perhaps had an eye for the ladies , but there was never any photographs of him being or any evidence that it might have gone further than that particular and basically there was , that any , there was the fact that he was a sailor when he married the Queen anyway so all sailors are like that are n't they !
3 He shot once with King Edward You knew all that , it was one of his favourite stories , and you must have known all about the guns .
4 You knew I had returned from Australia , and you must have known I 'd come immediately . ’
5 If you 'd 've known then what you knew after you wouldn't 've thought it were funny , you 'd 've not been chucking nowt you 'd 've been off .
6 You would n't have had it if you 'd have known ?
7 See and all that screaming and all that aggravation could have been avoided if you 'd have known you were going to get in .
8 But you must have known this before we set off , ’ said a very irate Italian .
9 But you must have known that letter was going to arrive this morning , or you would n't have been round here , trying to snatch it away before I saw it . ’
10 ‘ Yes , I know some people might think we are because we occasionally partner each other , but you should have known better — or perhaps not , since you never had any scruples about being a party to another man 's infidelity six years ago , which leads me to believe that this show of conscience on Cavell 's behalf is just that — show !
11 However , it seems to me that there is something a little perverse in leaving me your notes on the making of the Big Glass when you must have known perfectly well that they contained material I would be certain to find offensive .
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