Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Oh you should 've slapped him . |
| 32 | Should 've stayed on I suppose and got some qualifications . |
| 33 | ‘ You should 've stayed with my dad , ’ said Camille . |
| 34 | I know you should 've stayed at home till the beginning of this week . |
| 35 | When he 's with my dad , last night my dad 's , they were playing a game , she said you should 've heard him , she said laughing all , mum loves to hear him happy . |
| 36 | Oh you should 've heard him other day , all Parker pens that are in this house are his he says |
| 37 | You should 've heard the different birds . |
| 38 | I should 've arranged it , now that I come to think of it . |
| 39 | I should 've asked him if he knows Marie , cos that 's where she lives now — in Scotland . |
| 40 | ‘ You should 've asked some of your friends to stay , ’ said Betty . |
| 41 | Erm the rise was also the cue to check on erm pension increase and I felt you should 've asked a little bit more about the life cover , most companies do have arrangements for quite large sums of money to be paid out to dependants , this will have an impact on life cover planning in the future . |
| 42 | Er five minutes or so everyone should 've written out their questions . |
| 43 | You should 've completed those things . |
| 44 | You should 've phoned me up . |
| 45 | And now I look back on the years I wasted on the building sites and I should 've become a policeman ea a lot earlier cos it 's great fun . |
| 46 | Erm .. you know you should 've nipped that in the bud straight away rather than saying yeah we 'll put it in the post , we can do that , you should 've just said you know well I 'll bring it all along and gone from there . |
| 47 | I should 've ended it before that . |
| 48 | ‘ Of course I should 've done something , think I do n't know it ? |
| 49 | I 'm now going to say what you should 've done is write a bit more down on your short-term programmes . |
| 50 | Cos they should 've done it . |
| 51 | I should 've done , but |
| 52 | You should 've done . |
| 53 | Well you should 've done cos I thought you were going to cos I thought yeah we 've got , have n't got anything to do this afternoon |
| 54 | What they should 've done , instead of having all them machines on that moors they should 've had damn bugger stripped to waist digging it out . |
| 55 | I should 've given this some thought . |
| 56 | You should 've seen me marching home . |
| 57 | My God , you should 've seen us … . ’ |
| 58 | You should 've seen this place when we moved in . " |
| 59 | You should 've seen us . |
| 60 | He had been speaking of his wife , and Constance had been surprised , for this was the language of love and quite unlike the more usual ‘ Cor , you should 've seen the pair she had on ‘ er . ’ |