Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [vb pp] that [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should have imagined that this lay more in your field than mine . |
| 2 | I should have said that these houses are all close to the road , perhaps a few paces from the pavement . |
| 3 | Leith afterwards supposed she should have realised that that state of affairs could not go on indefinitely without someone getting hurt . |
| 4 | We should have realised that this was a sign of things to come . ’ |
| 5 | In accordance with section 67 the item was properly included in the bill but the bill should have stated that this item had not yet been paid . |
| 6 | Fool , he should have known that that was his one chance to strike , and make known his mettle , and assert his right once for all . |
| 7 | She should have known that that stupid receptionist would inform Fernando , to save his own skin , no doubt . |
| 8 | As he says to one of their tools : When Buckingham presents his credentials for deceiving the London citizens it is in the same theatrical-Machiavellian terms as Richard : But Buckingham himself is deceived , as we realized long ago in the flurry of insincere praise that Richard heaped upon him : Buckingham should have known that such effusiveness from a hypocrite can only bode ill . |
| 9 | I do not expect shame from Ministers , but I should have thought that all the Ministers present , and all the others who might come in later , would be a little wary about pressing this matter . |
| 10 | 1 should have thought that that was the punishment , not the education , though God knows there are plenty around who think of education that way . |
| 11 | I should have thought that that lesson was clear . |
| 12 | Wasim Akram finished with 6 for 67 and an uncontrollable grin , and must have felt that this , of all his dramatic performances , must have won an important match . |
| 13 | He seemed to be mulling things over because he must have seen that this had not been the shock to Maggie that it had to him . |
| 14 | I must have said that several times already because Ma fixed me with a glittering stare and exclaimed , ‘ If you say that word once more , Andrew , just once more , I 'll send you to the Science Museum again … with Annabel . ’ |
| 15 | From this point on , Flaubert must have known that any full length novel would probably take him five to seven years ; and therefore that most of his back-burner projects would inevitably boil themselves dry in the pot . |
| 16 | I must have known that those were the very advantages I had been denying myself in denying myself food . |
| 17 | When the government broke in , broke the link between the R P I and the old age pension , they must have known that this kind of rise would not be paid by our pensioners . |
| 18 | The compilers of the BMA code of practice for the safe use and disposal of sharps must have thought that many practitioners would be unable to comply with universal precautions because the code suggested that gloving decreased manual dexterity . |
| 19 | If I 'd been smarter , or less vain , I might have realized that this meant that my former role was now vacant . |
| 20 | We thought you might have guessed that all those announcements by the terrorists were a lie and really — ‘ |
| 21 | For the PC user , who might have imagined that all this was a storm in a teacup , the world is also about to do a complete volte face . |
| 22 | If this legal consequence had been pointed out to the bank at the time , they might have said that that was not what they intended , but that is a factor common probably to all cases in which a release is given to one of two joint debtors . |
| 23 | As in divided Germany and divided Korea , Ho Chi Minh and his comrades might have accepted that this was the reality : especially as it became ever more clear that the United States intended to uphold the status quo with all their power . |
| 24 | Considering that Belfast was not involved in that event fifty years previously one might have hoped that those so minded to would have contented themselves with attending the ceremony in Dublin , less than a hundred miles away . |
| 25 | On second thoughts , however , they might have reflected that these little conspiratorial activities prepared them quite as adequately for life as the main curriculum . |
| 26 | One might have thought that these trends would not present major difficulties since one apparent virtue of the British constitution was its flexibility . |
| 27 | One might have thought that these divisions would at least cease to operate in church , but there too Kerr advocates a rigid hierarchy : ‘ The best of all systems of arrangement is to place the family and their guests in front , strangers of position next behind them , and the upper and lower servants , together with strangers of their classes respectively , in successive order . ’ |
| 28 | As PostScript is something of a second fiddle to Hewlett-Packard 's PCL in the PC world you might have thought that this was nothing to do with you . |
| 29 | She might have known that all of her efforts would end like this ; it was simply a truth that she had n't been wanting to face . |
| 30 | We might have expected that those who alleged bias on television or in their paper would be reluctant to describe that source as useful but there was little evidence of any such reaction . |