Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [vb pp] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You should 've seen this place when we moved in . " |
| 2 | ‘ Must 've heard this fucker coming in , ’ deduces the striped pyjamas . |
| 3 | If it was not , then the Committee should have made this plain and opted for a different verbal formula . |
| 4 | I accept that we perhaps should have made this point clear in the December magazine . |
| 5 | No secret about the last time Gloucester played Northampton … the saints won 17-10 … the cherry and whites should have shredded this film |
| 6 | It may seem natural to a foreign scholar [ presumably Zachrisson : JM ] to suppose that the sound [ ae ] … might be spelt e ; but it is little short of incredible that native English-speaking scholars [ presumably Wyld : JM ] should have accepted this view . |
| 7 | I 'd create an extra note and I 'd just laugh at myself and think , ‘ I never should have written this song ! ’ |
| 8 | Perhaps it is not remarkable , after all , that no poet should have described this world to us before it expired , described it in language that would bring home to us what kind of world it actually was and how its inhabitants looked upon it , for it was above all a peasant world and the peasant was inarticulate . |
| 9 | It seems rather more than fortuitous that Franco should have chosen this spot , for it was only 10 kilometres from the imposing palace , monastery and royal pantheon of El Escorial , built by Philip II in the sixteenth century . |
| 10 | She should have expected this turn-around . |
| 11 | They could ; and should have won this match and the players have to look to themselves . |
| 12 | Now on form Swindon should have walked this game against Brighton and that 's just what they were doing … strolling when the seagulls went flying into the lead after just six minutes … good goal for Mark Gall he took the chance well . |
| 13 | The massive demonstrations against the war in several Arab and Muslim countries since the war started should have dispelled this illusion . |
| 14 | From the first example you should have found This method of setting out sets was thought out by a mathematician named Venn , who gave his name to the " Venn diagram " . |
| 15 | ‘ You should have had this money ready and wrapped up . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I an sorry that a well-respected body such as the Wolfson Foundation should have taken this step ’ says Major General Leslie Busk , director-general of the British Heart Foundation and chairman of the Association of Medical Research Charities . |
| 17 | ‘ The Foreign Minister must have authorized this reply . |
| 18 | I felt sure she must have escaped this way . |
| 19 | I expected it to be either genetics or haematology , after what you must have seen this morning . ’ |
| 20 | She was saddened by the number of times the man must have asked this question . |
| 21 | No doubt it will transpire that I must have known this Paykhull . ’ |
| 22 | She must have come this way often enough , she was a diligent churchgoer . ’ |
| 23 | The diplomacy which must have preceded this match , and Cnut 's desire for it , imply worries about Robert 's attitude which were to prove well founded . |
| 24 | And I think we must have had this video three times , you should be word perfect by now . |
| 25 | Lear must have found this side of Gould the most frustrating and hurtful ; he could not understand someone who did not think people were important . |
| 26 | He must have discussed this phenomenon with Robert Boyle on a number of occasions . |
| 27 | She must have chosen this psalm . |
| 28 | I must have chosen this day to have gone and met this man . |
| 29 | ‘ He must have passed this way . ’ |
| 30 | Something fairly vital must have occasioned this visit . |