Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [vb pp] [prep] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | They should have placed at their disposal Inigo Jones 's original designs for Whitehall Palace , ‘ which are of acknowledged beauty ’ . |
| 2 | Seb knew it was well past the time he and Carrie should have retired to their respective bedrooms , but he found the thought of mentioning bed vaguely embarrassing . |
| 3 | Perhaps they had thought that the first move should have come from their side . |
| 4 | The clubs should have stuck to their guns . |
| 5 | In making these pictorial representations people must have relied on their memories of past events , and so all three modes of time were involved . |
| 6 | Those expatriate Conservative voters in Singapore must have choked on their gin slings last week when they opened their copy of the Straits Times . |
| 7 | It had been a convenient fiction to smooth the path towards what he must have seen as their inevitable destiny in that great , soft bed . |
| 8 | Many waverers must have reached for their chequebooks and signed on with a green campaign organization after hearing the latest pronouncement assuring them that there really was something to worry about . |
| 9 | Syl had left and Robert gone to bed and the old school friends were talking as they must have talked in their manless dormitory : my mother careful , Lili dashing . |
| 10 | The Lloyds believe the valuers must have looked at their address , Haileywood Farm and mistaken it for Haileywood House next door , a mansion owned by Ian Paice , the drummer with the rock group , Deep Purple . |
| 11 | Very big and brave they must have looked in their new NATO camouflage suits , and absolutely dead they were when they were taken out of the vans . |
| 12 | The crowd is more responsive than in LA , strange considering everyone 's heart must have sunk into their trainers . |
| 13 | Souness is fixing me with the glare he reserves for the enemy , the look that countless midfield players must have known to their terror , a look that threatens to rupture my Achilles tendon , if I hover on a question too long . |
| 14 | Bonnie Prince Charlie had a price of thirty thousand pounds on his head when he was being ferried hither and yon across many isles and sea-lochs of the Hebrides , and yet , and yet — the people of the west , such as Flora Macdonald and Malcolm Macleod of Raasay , risked their lives for a man they must have known in their hearts was a lost cause . |
| 15 | Given the lacklustre contributions of some individuals at Stark 's Park , Burns must have wondered about their desire to step up a grade . |
| 16 | Even if we 're not gon na succeed it must have stuck in their throat that there was Jesus lying asleep . |
| 17 | The second movement of No. 3 is a wildly witty Rondo , which she occasionally played as an encore ; you can see why : the jaws of her audience must have dropped onto their collar studs at its combination of ding-bat humour and sheer difficulty . |
| 18 | I would have wished that the Liberal Democrats might have remained in their place , especially as their amendment is now before the House for debate . |
| 19 | It is a sober thought that had our colonial administrators studied early Roman Imperial history , instead of the gang warfare of the late Republic , a few useful ideas about the problems of subject people might have seeped into their thinking . |
| 20 | To her credit , whatever other social solecisms the inexperienced Peggy might have committed during their stay in Little Tuckett , she had never betrayed a confidence . |
| 21 | One would think that Sotheby 's might have learned from their oversight five months earlier , but they did n't have a clue again . |
| 22 | They usually consist of a small , leatherbound pocked-book containing page after page of diagrams drawn on gridded paper to show the heights and gradients of hills Edwardian cyclists might have encountered during their travels . |
| 23 | Had the Borough Council objected to the application for 60 housing units , then Pubmaster might have appealed against their decision to a Government inspector who might have overruled the Council . |
| 24 | An adequate knowledge of the existence , timing , and source of postcoital pills was shown by 52 ( 30% ) of the 171 patients who had recognised a potential contraceptive failure and 25 ( 12% ) of the 210 who had not used any contraception — that is , 77 ( 20% ) of the 381 patients who might have benefited from their use . |
| 25 | This might have resulted from their experience of two courses that had been run successfully during those hours . |
| 26 | SOUTH AFRICA 'S return to Test cricket after 22 years was marked by a match as tense and as fluctuating as any they could have played in their former life . |
| 27 | We had some young boys out there who could have gone into their shell , but they did n't and that pleased me . ’ |
| 28 | I could have spit in their eyes ! ’ |
| 29 | You could have walked on their heads on Saturday . |
| 30 | It accounts for the constant visits of the apostle to the Gentiles back to the Jerusalem church ( Acts 18:21 , 20:16 , 25:1 etc. ) , and his organisation of a great collection for their benefit , little though he could have approved of their theology ( Rom. 15:26 , I Cor. 16:1 , 2 Cor. 8:1ff ) . |