Example sentences of "[modal v] never have [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should never have done it . |
| 2 | I should never have done it on that day . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ You should never have sent him that valentine . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ You should never have sent me that cruel letter this morning . |
| 5 | I should never have sent you my book . |
| 6 | She knew that she should never have accepted it , she thought , as she knelt on the carpet , placing the mug down beside her and beginning to search the floor for the elusive ring . |
| 7 | I should never have accepted you as Catherine 's friend . |
| 8 | Willie should have ignored Geoffrey 's protests , and Geoffrey ( presumably hoping to protect the wretched judges of the Appeal Court from further criticism ) should never have made them . |
| 9 | His parents say the police should never have chased him . |
| 10 | I should never have given him them keys … . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Ole should never have given him Security . ’ |
| 12 | I should never have appointed her in an acting capacity . ’ |
| 13 | I was eleven years old , and I honestly believe that I was too young to cope , that my father should never have taken me to the game , that if he had been a responsible parent he would have recognized the potential for trauma that the afternoon contained . |
| 14 | ‘ In that case , you should never have taken me out sailing in the first place ! ’ |
| 15 | I should never have let her go off in the first place . ’ |
| 16 | He should never have let her talk him into letting her give hers first when they had been deciding how to handle this whole situation . |
| 17 | You should never have let him leave . ’ |
| 18 | They should never have let him into the RAF — ca n't think why they did n't spot it . |
| 19 | She should never have let him slip away silently to Pool in the first place , but clung fast to him there among the trees and called out the men to overpower him . |
| 20 | You prick , he said , I should never have let you take them up . |
| 21 | But I should never have let you slip away so easily . |
| 22 | ‘ I should never have trusted her . ’ |
| 23 | I should never have trusted you with it , he said . |
| 24 | Jacob should never have allowed it to go this far . |
| 25 | ‘ I should never have married you . |
| 26 | Then he began to change his ground , to slip from real remorse into disguised anger , saying that he should never have trapped me into domesticity , meaning , of course , that I should never have trapped him , and , instead of getting angry underneath — as I had earlier when he was being honest with me — I felt an enormous , trembling sympathy with him and begged him to stop : he was n't , after all , responsible for everything . |
| 27 | Then he began to change his ground , to slip from real remorse into disguised anger , saying that he should never have trapped me into domesticity , meaning , of course , that I should never have trapped him , and , instead of getting angry underneath — as I had earlier when he was being honest with me — I felt an enormous , trembling sympathy with him and begged him to stop : he was n't , after all , responsible for everything . |
| 28 | They should never have abolished it , hanging 's too good for him . |
| 29 | The boys should never have left her there . |
| 30 | ‘ I should never have left you . ’ |