Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [verb] [det] [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 It looks really , I felt like saying to him , Sid you should have made that brass then I thought no , I wo n't .
4 If it was not , then the Committee should have made this plain and opted for a different verbal formula .
5 I accept that we perhaps should have made this point clear in the December magazine .
6 Travel agent Peter Marsh , 46 , of Colchester , Essex , said : ‘ Both should have made more effort to be together and to make the marriage work .
7 I should have made more effort to get close to her , Claudia thought miserably ; all her efforts had been rebuffed , but , deny it or not , the bond was there and she hesitated to turn her sensitive twin over to Roman Wyatt 's not so tender mercy .
8 ‘ But I 'm bound to say that in your position I think I should have made some enquiry into his bona fides .
9 Chandos , as narrator , describes the two who have agreed to remain loving friends with the luscious approval that ‘ suddenly faced with life in the midst of death , two natures so alike and so peerless should have comforted each other ’ ; they have in fact exchanged a kiss .
10 No secret about the last time Gloucester played Northampton … the saints won 17-10 … the cherry and whites should have shredded this film
11 In three months , too , while she knew she would n't get a job that paid as well as the one she had now , she should have secured another job , should n't she ?
12 Held , allowing the appeal , ( 1 ) that there was no rule that the Crown was exempt from giving a cross-undertaking in damages in law enforcement proceedings , but that the court had a discretion not to require the undertaking and that the discretion extended to other public authorities exercising the function of law enforcement in appropriate circumstances ; and that subject to the impact of Community law the courts should have exercised that discretion ( post , pp. 173D–F , 181G — 182B , G–H , 190D–E ) .
13 It is particularly ironic that a ruler in the age of Machiavelli should have caused such obsession with personal morality , or immorality — not least because her reign produced the first politician in the British Isles , her secretary William Maitland of Lethington , who was described as ‘ machiavellian ’ .
14 Countersigning officers should have received some training in JAR interviewing and counselling skills .
15 I really think by now , Earth Summit or no Earth Summit , that we should have received some acknowledgment from DGXI .
16 ‘ The General should have received another dose of fertizol to stimulate his brood cycle for his next assignment .
17 It is natural that these political events should have received most attention from historians : they concern the principles of social organization , the relations between the two chief governmental powers in society , and the materials are comparatively abundant .
18 But I should have guessed that Hurley and his crowd would again put two and two together and make 22 .
19 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 .
20 He should have played more comedy . ’
21 I , you see I think that instead of , instead of Lawson putting interest rates up to squeeze inflation out of the economy he should have stopped all credit .
22 John Morris , the board 's secretary , has already suggested to the World Boxing Council that , since Duran was inside the middleweight limit when he lost to Sugar Ray Leonard , he should have lost that title , even though the pair were fighting for the world super-middleweight championship .
23 I should have attended that Council meeting you know ? ’ he added more lightly , but I was busy , I sent my excuses .
24 I should have realised that genius , as some bright spark in the office said , has a lot to do with genes .
25 She meant I did n't girn or make a fuss , and meant I should have stayed that way .
26 Dickens published Sketches by Boz in 1836–7 , just twenty years after Jane Austen 's death , and it is not difficult to discover , by a comparison , why Kingsley should have regarded that book as a watershed in the depiction of fictional living space .
27 If anybody ever says woman to me , like " You should have seen that woman , " or , " Now there was a woman for you , " I would think of Audra Favor , thinking of her as Audra , too , not as Mrs. Favor the Indian Agent 's wife .
28 I 'd create an extra note and I 'd just laugh at myself and think , ‘ I never should have written this song ! ’
29 The mothers , says Mr Wijeratne in what sounds like an unfeeling remark , should have paid more attention to what their children were doing .
30 Swayne ; perhaps he should have paid more attention to Swayne .
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