Example sentences of "[modal v] to have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In London , the GLC Historic Buildings Section used to have delegated powers from the Secretary of State . |
| 2 | No they used to have organized ENSA concerts and er such like and er , when the Americans started arriving in England in large numbers ready for D Day , the temporary placement depot at Lichfield was a dispersal unit for soldiers sent there . |
| 3 | They used to have wet fl floors and everything . |
| 4 | I used to have set ideas but the older I get the more I learn from . |
| 5 | I used to have set ideas but the older I get the more I learn from . |
| 6 | She also submitted that either the social worker had assessed him or ought to have assessed him . |
| 7 | The chronology of these stories is surprising ; Clovis ought to have eradicated Frankish opposition earlier in his reign . |
| 8 | She ought to have guessed . |
| 9 | I ought to have guessed from the smell , but it was new to me . " |
| 10 | I ought to have guessed , she had been purring over me for days , giving me arch looks . |
| 11 | Nina , my dear Lisa , as you ought to have guessed … is not my girlfriend . |
| 12 | I ought to have guessed . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I ought to have guessed ! ’ |
| 14 | And one aspect of his character she ought to have guessed at was his total loyalty to family . |
| 15 | Only one : nose ( for noise ) which seems worse than it is , because the misspelling has produced a rather comic word , and we may feel she ought to have recognised it as the word it is , rather than the word she meant it to be . |
| 16 | I ought to have explained in my letter — as is made clear in my book — that the case studies are those of pathologically disturbed men ( and some women ) ; people locked away in asylums or prisons , or who have paid for their vile perversions with their lives . |
| 17 | She said : ‘ The Tates were there and they sent a big wreath ; we ought to have invited them back with us . ’ |
| 18 | The former , combined with an opinion poll lead which caused a sharp plunge in the stock markets , frightened off wavering voters ; the latter obscured issues such as health and the recession with which Labour ought to have concluded its campaign . |
| 19 | He ought to have slapped me across the face . |
| 20 | The tale was distressing to Ayling and she knew she ought to have curtailed it but she could not resist going on . |
| 21 | The religious community sent its messengers on to the set and Burton obliged with such whoppers ( 'playing Marcellus is like playing Hamlet ’ ) that his reputation as an honest interviewee ought to have ended there and then . |
| 22 | Of course , they associated being photographed with their father 's death , she ought to have foreseen that . |
| 23 | It was held that the defendants were liable because they ought to have foreseen the possibility of the chemical coming into contact with water and they had not warned the buyers of this danger . |
| 24 | You ought to have instructed your attorney to bring an action against the hawker for criminal conversation with your wife . |
| 25 | You ought to have seen her face ! ’ |
| 26 | ‘ You ought to have seen him . |
| 27 | ‘ You ought to have seen his face , ’ Bella said , ‘ when that phone started ringing . |
| 28 | ‘ She ought to have seen he only wanted her money , and refused him , ’ said Retty . |
| 29 | ‘ There was a scene in the showers and when it was over , Kenneth came up to me and said , ‘ Oh you ought to have seen all the people gathering around you ’ . |
| 30 | The one-sided affair ought to have seen the hosts cash in on early superiority , even before Booth struck in the 31st minute to break the deadlock with a well-placed glancing header off Darren Ferguson 's corner . |