Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [vb pp] [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | While there 's nothing wrong with the principle or music of the CND ‘ Give Peace A Dance 3 ’ compilation , it 's a little worrying that tracks with titles like ‘ F— Off Mix ’ and ‘ Jihad ’ ( holy war , or am I wrong ? ) should have crept on to it . |
| 2 | ‘ I suppose I should have said up to now , ’ Mark replied disarmingly . |
| 3 | Well the skipper of the hopper , he get into trouble for that cos he should have gone out to the dumping ground . |
| 4 | Joe should have gone back to school the previous week but it was being used as an evacuation centre . |
| 5 | You should have gone back to the optician when you had the eye infection , as this was clear evidence that there was something wrong . |
| 6 | TAIWAN are likely to be the cannon-fodder of the pool , although their national side 's rapid development programme , modelled on the New Zealand forward technique , should have trickled down to the students , ensuring that the defeats are n't too heavy . |
| 7 | How ironic that someone who had held her spellbound as a child and had lingered in her imagination for years should have turned out to be so arrogantly cold and superior . |
| 8 | It was a problem which the team manager , Mike Turner , should have faced up to very quickly and brought to a conclusion one way or the other . |
| 9 | ‘ Once one has reached forty , one should have faced up to the fact of one 's own death , ’ Richard says . |
| 10 | I am sure that if I had been his secretary for a fortnight I should have wanted to poison him , not marry him … yes , I should have run round to the chemist 's for threepennyworth of poison after a very short time . |
| 11 | Perhaps Mr Dlouhy should have held on to his official Audi after all . |
| 12 | The huge " club fender " of early Edwardian times should have held on to its proper suggestions of Christmas , when a group of laughing guests sat there , full glasses in their hands , while child actors performed in a glittering pantomime , entrances and exits from behind the Christmas tree . |
| 13 | Top flight football should have come back to The Valley . |
| 14 | ‘ Maybe you should have walked over to Pike and told him that . |
| 15 | I must have fallen on to a sharp stick , I thought . |
| 16 | Something must have led up to it . ’ |
| 17 | Rather too pertinent , I thought , for the place 's original dweller , who must have gone down to the Atlantic in a small boat on many a stormy night . |
| 18 | She thought Finn must have gone down to the workroom . |
| 19 | She must have faced up to the worst outcome , in the process . |
| 20 | He was dressed in traditional subfusc brown with a ragged sweater and a Viyella check shirt that his father must have handed down to him , and addressed Jack as if the status of professional golfers had not changed since the thirties . |
| 21 | That put him on a par with most of the population , but I must have come up to his standards . |
| 22 | Something in her manner must have got through to him , for when she turned abruptly towards the sitting-room without another word he followed her , his face clouding . |
| 23 | Jon , as he proudly watched the Union Jack raised above his head , must have thought back to the days when , as Oxford University Boat Race president , the only flag he looked at was the skull and crossbones which hung in his study with a menacing message written underneath : ‘ Death Zone — No Prisoners . ’ |
| 24 | I 'll have moved on to something else by then . |
| 25 | They might not be in , Mum will 've gone to the supermarket and Dad 'll have gone back to work . |
| 26 | Quite apart from the fact that if all the girls he 'd ever dumped had had a go back he might have grown up to be less of a bastard . ’ |
| 27 | She has encouraged me to talk about what happened before I got to that stage , and to think about what might have led up to it . |
| 28 | Fire brigade investigators are still trying to discover the cause of the explosion and any chain of events which might have led up to it . |
| 29 | One can tell from his present ability that he 's right to be sorry , he might have gone on to be a famous international . |
| 30 | ‘ If Gebrec was upset or worried about something and just wanted to be alone to think things over , ’ said Jack , ‘ he might have gone up to the belvedere , or down by the river where we went yesterday to do our painting . ’ |