Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few days later , an irate Mrs Jacobs was in touch : ‘ She stated that neither she nor her husband saw our representative and she is annoyed that ‘ some person ’ should have questioned her servants about their private affairs . ’ |
| 2 | I should have questioned her then . |
| 3 | We should have eaten at the pub . |
| 4 | " It is a good thing you addressed me so politely , or I should have eaten you . |
| 5 | There was a rational explanation ; but there seems no explanation as to why , thirty years before , the violation of the house should have disturbed my sleep . |
| 6 | He had said nothing to disturb her , nothing , that is , that should have disturbed her . |
| 7 | Given my background , as described in the previous chapter , it is not surprising that I should have felt particularly sensitive on this point . |
| 8 | And what were my wonderful talents , that I should have felt it mattered that they were ‘ wasted ’ ? |
| 9 | Indeed , had he told me where he went and with whom on the evenings he spent away from the attic , I should have felt less vulnerable : it was secrecy itself I found hostile . |
| 10 | Thus , whilst their Lordships entirely understand why both Barnett J. and the Court of Appeal should have felt , in the light of the passage cited from Reg. v. Bow Street Stipendiary Magistrate , Ex parte Director of Public Prosecutions , 91 Cr.App.R. 283 , 296–297 , that the district judge had paid insufficient regard to the task undertaken by the prosecution , they consider that the district judge was in fact correct to take into account all the factors together , without reference to any burden of proof other than the heavy burden which always rests on a defendant who seeks a stay on the grounds of delay . |
| 11 | ‘ Oh , well , please yourself , ’ he said and , worried lest Primrose should have felt excluded from the conversation , as well as the trip to Southampton , he offered to give her two of his tickets to Wimbledon . |
| 12 | I should have felt sorry for them , but I did n't because I was really only sorry for myself and their problems were n't mine . |
| 13 | She felt cheated , when she should have felt despair . |
| 14 | Harry knew he should have felt indignation at this crude evidence of Charlie and Roy Mallender pulling strings , not to mention a certain satisfaction that they thought they needed to pull them , but all he could detect within himself was a sickening clutch of fear . |
| 15 | He should have felt as tired and inadequate as his age and circumstances dictated , but he did not . |
| 16 | She should have felt happy , relieved — that was what she had wanted , was n't it ? |
| 17 | He should have felt happy . |
| 18 | Dire though the attacks on Belfast have been during the past two months , it is a sign of just how successful economic development has been that the IRA should have felt it necessary to retaliate in the way that it has . |
| 19 | Second phase schools should have felt — but did not always do so — the benefits of a process of policy-making which was homogeneous . |
| 20 | She should have felt relief — was n't this what she 'd been longing to hear ? |
| 21 | And why had n't I felt that shock of surprise I should have felt ? |
| 22 | Sunderland should have scored just before this . |
| 23 | Norwich will feel they should have scored as early as the second minute . |
| 24 | Sri Lanka should have scored more , but collapsed to 182-4 after standing at 160-1 . |
| 25 | I thought Clarke should have scored a second goal when he went through . ’ |
| 26 | Les Ferdinand should have scored in the 16th minute when he escaped Shaun Teale and side-stepped goalkeeper Nigel Spink but the Rangers striker allowed Steve Staunton to get back and make two retrieving tackles in front of a gaping net . |
| 27 | However , a 1–0 win would be enough , and Wilkinson added : ‘ We scored here and in Barcelona , we made chances in Stuttgart , and we should have scored more at Ibrox . |
| 28 | He even sold himself short saying : ‘ I should have scored three . |
| 29 | Well I think Gary Crosby if he looks at that 'll think he possibly should have scored then . |
| 30 | You could say that with all the service Deane gets from the midfield he should have scored more than two ( as I say Lee 's got 4 & he gets hardly any service ! ) . |