Example sentences of "[modal v] have [vb pp] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You should 've heard the different birds . |
| 2 | He must 've broken the other arm because the next day he had both arms in plaster . |
| 3 | And I 've got ta get some cornflakes today , my Gary must 've used the last few this morning . |
| 4 | Of course we now know that the intelligence Ultra was providing should have made the Allied High Command — too complacent and overconfident — much more wary of committing their lightly-armed airborne forces to Operation Market Garden . |
| 5 | Oh I should have kept the other one . |
| 6 | Seaman should have saved the first goal , but did make a two world class saves against Berkamp and Rikaard . |
| 7 | By early next week each of the 400 members of the Association of Futures Brokers and Dealers , the self-regulatory organisation for com modities , should have received the latest proposal from the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission for ending the wrangle over London firms doing business for American clients . |
| 8 | ‘ You should have shut the stable door so the damn horse do n't bolt . ’ |
| 9 | We regard it as almost unthinkable that Parliament should have authorised the Serious Fraud Office to continue the exercise of inquisitorial powers against the accused not merely after he had been charged but also ( as Mr. Pleming accepts and asserts ) throughout his trial . |
| 10 | No bu I 'm sorry , the other thing I 'm sorry I should have said the other thing I 'm going on is when things were last done , |
| 11 | Probably should have gone the other way into town but |
| 12 | It is quite understandable that contemporaries , whatever their sympathies , should have viewed the Spanish Civil War in such cosmic terms . |
| 13 | It is in accordance with such optimism that Euripides should have turned the suffering hero of earlier tragedy into a dialectician and the transcendental justice of Aeschylus into the " poetic justice " dispensed by the deus ex machina who appears at the end of so many of his plays . |
| 14 | Accordingly he submitted that if the jury accepted that the first appellant had murdered the deceased , then it necessarily followed that they should have acquitted the second appellant . |
| 15 | Accordingly , their Lordships did not agree with counsel that if the jury convicted the first appellant upon the basis that he was guilty as actor , they necessarily should have acquitted the second appellant . |
| 16 | It should have determined the relative usefulness of the text , suggested the best way of tackling it and provided you with an impression of the scholarly stature and historiographical viewpoint of the book . |
| 17 | Ah should have grabbed the other one . |
| 18 | " You should have joined the diplomatic service ! |
| 19 | Significantly , the package features a novel ‘ tutorial ’ : when it is completed , the user should have computerised the financial side of the business , and hopefully , learned to deal with all ‘ financial ’ events that happen in business from opening balances , through stopped or bounced cheques to journals . |
| 20 | ‘ I should have realised the two of you were n't a couple , ’ Vitor reflected , when he had finished his sandwiches . |
| 21 | I should have stayed the whole night in your bed , with you in my arms . |
| 22 | They should have penetrated his disguise and they should have alerted the Royal guards and the Fiana and every sorcerer in the Palace so that he could be driven out . |
| 23 | I should have flung the damned thing out of his open door so that it would bounce down the mountainside up which the road was climbing . |
| 24 | 4. ( a ) On MacDonald 's character you should have indicated the telling phrase " characteristic self-pity " and indicated the implications of the penultimate paragraph . |
| 25 | Those involved were told that they should have consulted the senior branch before starting anything like that . |
| 26 | By now John should have become the first 40-year-old to break four minutes for the mile . |
| 27 | It is ironic that office building should have become the latest indirect victims of IRA terrorism through increased insurance premiums because , historically , the record of claims made by landlords or tenants has been extremely good . |
| 28 | The group claimed that AY should have discovered the alleged fraud and should not have given Alkar the clean bill of health it received in its 1987 accounts . |
| 29 | You should have discovered the following facts . |
| 30 | ‘ All right , I sprained my wrist , ’ Preston admitted , ‘ but you should have seen the other bloke . ’ |