Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know you should 've stayed at home till the beginning of this week . |
| 2 | Rejecting a federalized party , he asserted that the CPSU should remain unified in order to be true to Lenin 's concept of an internationalist party acting as a force to cement the multinational Soviet state . |
| 3 | It 's light enough to carry around , tipping the scales at just under 5lbs , but with the help of large rubber pads on the base it should stay put on stage . |
| 4 | I think she must 've gone to town |
| 5 | Both these auditory cues should become associated with food and acquire conditioned reinforcing properties , but by virtue of its onset occurring in relatively close proximity to the food , the tone is likely to acquire somewhat more power than the clicker . |
| 6 | Highfield came back strongly and should have scored in front of the posts but lost possession their hooker was held up on the line , their only reward was a penalty from their captain Terry Dillon . |
| 7 | Whilst its coverage of public affairs ‘ news ’ was not comparable to the Daily Mirror — the amount of space devoted to such news declined between 1927 and 1937 by 59 square inches or 5% — that decline is one of 19% if one assumes that that content should have expanded in line with the expansion of total editorial space . |
| 8 | These men should have gone off duty at twelve but he was able to dismiss only two of them whom he could replace with experienced men from the afternoon shift . |
| 9 | It was just after six , long after the time she should have gone off duty , and that was exactly what all the physiotherapists had done . |
| 10 | ‘ I still feel he should have gone to university like the other two . |
| 11 | She said the man , who admitted attempting to have sex with her when she was eight , should have gone to prison for two or three years . |
| 12 | Should have gone to college , really , with a talent like that . ’ |
| 13 | Should have gone in hospital last Monday to have me hand done . |
| 14 | United showed more appetite for the game and should have gone in front after nine minutes when Ferguson got on the end of Clark 's free-kick . |
| 15 | Marjorie Roper from Stroud should have appeared in court this morning . |
| 16 | Clive James should have stayed with book-reviewing : his destruction of ‘ Princess Daisy ’ must be the funniest thing he ever wrote , even though he admits that ‘ to pour abuse on a book like this makes no more sense than to kick a powder-puff ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ I should have stayed at home , ’ said Cameron . |
| 18 | The lads said I should have stayed at home . |
| 19 | Marius was dismissive about both of them and thought that if they could n't manage two weeks of bedmaking and personal organisation then they should have stayed at home . |
| 20 | As the insects met a sticky death on her windscreen and brambles and gorse bushes clawed at the bright sides of her hired Fiat , she wondered if she should have stayed at home and if she would ever , in fact , see ‘ La Felicità ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ I ca n't look back and say , ‘ hey , maybe I should have stayed at school ’ . |
| 22 | Rex Reed said that Nicholson was ‘ wasted so criminally , that he should have stayed in bed . ’ |
| 23 | You should have stayed in bed . ’ |
| 24 | She should have stayed in beauty therapy , she 's a very gentle and she 's very able . |
| 25 | The relationship between research and higher education is such that someone , somewhere , should have engaged in research ; but that does not mean that research is part of the meaning of higher education . |
| 26 | We have seen that for effective teaching in higher education to take place , someone , somewhere should have engaged in research . |
| 27 | ‘ Had I had any idea what I was coming home to , I should have assured in advance that such a likeness would be instantly available . ’ |
| 28 | Erm we will continue to say that Harlow should have applied for designation years ago erm it 's very |
| 29 | What we should have done of course , and did n't , was to notify the neighbours who were on fire-watching duty up and down our road . |
| 30 | Perhaps she should have paid by cheque after all . |