Example sentences of "[modal v] have [vb pp] they [det] " in BNC.

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1 This should have given them several useful advantages , including the right to trial by jury .
2 You should have heard them all .
3 You should have told them that about the poppy seeds .
4 You should have used them both together should n't you ?
5 People and dogs came from as far away as Oxford to take part in this event which must have left them all fitter and leaner at the end of the day .
6 She supposed Elder Seth must have taken them all with him when he left in his motorwagon train .
7 You must have got them all spread
8 They were both straining to reach , leaning forward as far as they could , agonisingly aware that the door and its ring handle that might have given them some leverage were out of their reach , when another sound fell on their ears .
9 A little foresight might have shown them that spending less on early hospitality and a bit more on the venue would have saved them time , money and trouble overall .
10 Something which as the Argentines were in no circumstances , ah , going to settle for , ah , and anybody could have told them that , and anybody knew that .
11 As a matter of fact , any reader of the Daily Worker could have told them that .
12 And if they 'd started thinking about it at design stage , we could have suggested them another bearing that would do the job and be a lot cheaper .
13 And erm with these you changed them both into sixths did n't you could have changed them both into twelfths and it would have work but then we 'll get an answer that needs we would have got sixth twelfths well it still comes to a half .
14 He had braved the bitter weather to go down to the bookshops on the Charing Cross Road not just for the chance to get some books — he could have bought them any time — but principally to meet Joseph Hyde and hear the latest news from Dublin .
15 We 'd have sorted them all out in the tunnel ! ’
16 It was my impression that slightly casual management may have turned them all to vinegar .
17 The press may have labelled them all Brats , but not all of them had any great desire to raise hell and make headlines .
18 They were n't used to the cheek-by-jowl contact it entailed ; the notion of living in the state of interdependence that bound Dora Lavender and Rose Kettle would have horrified them both .
19 She could n't go back and face them all — not now , not when Marianne would have told them all about her criminal father , doubtless revelling in every sad little detail , probably creating a few more just to spice the story up still more .
20 She rubbed at herself inneffectually and he had an impulse to do it for her ; if Oliver had been with them , he would have dried them both , enjoying the feel of their lively , vigorous little bodies , but on her own , without Oliver , she seemed too grown-up , not a child any more .
21 They would have arrested them both , delighted to pick on a friar .
22 The manager would have had them all in at 8 a.m. , forcing them to try on the latest zipper tops over their Iron Maiden T-shirts , and making them practise slouching around the sales floor trying to look cool in clothes designed to save lives in sub-zero temperatures .
23 You will have used them all .
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