Example sentences of "[modal v] have [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of these puzzles , Jim , must 've fallen down behind the erm fermenting bin . |
| 2 | Today we should have met up with the rest of the tribe but we are n't as fit as we might be . |
| 3 | Well the skipper of the hopper , he get into trouble for that cos he should have gone out to the dumping ground . |
| 4 | And when Benn started hitting him with those big shots in the 11th , the textbook should have gone out of the window for the animal instinct to take over but he did n't have it the way I had against Benn and Michael Watson , unfortunately . |
| 5 | Eleanor was right when she had said at the very beginning that he should have gone along with the corporate planning proposals to phase-out the UK Vehicle Division as a manufacturing operation . |
| 6 | You should have gone back to the optician when you had the eye infection , as this was clear evidence that there was something wrong . |
| 7 | Maybe I should have hung on for a few days in there getting to grips with Alf Bundy 's ailments . |
| 8 | TAIWAN are likely to be the cannon-fodder of the pool , although their national side 's rapid development programme , modelled on the New Zealand forward technique , should have trickled down to the students , ensuring that the defeats are n't too heavy . |
| 9 | ‘ Once one has reached forty , one should have faced up to the fact of one 's own death , ’ Richard says . |
| 10 | I am sure that if I had been his secretary for a fortnight I should have wanted to poison him , not marry him … yes , I should have run round to the chemist 's for threepennyworth of poison after a very short time . |
| 11 | The artist 's widow did not think it appropriate that the work should have ended up on the commercial circuit and has therefore refused to sign the document . |
| 12 | I should have dressed up like a 1970s saloon bar Tory and asked Sigourney about her baby , her husband and her miscarriage . |
| 13 | They say he should have waited around like a good boy , taken a few duff , even Duff fights , and he would have been rewarded in due course by boxing 's power brokers . |
| 14 | The thing that saddens me is that we 're supposed to have a T U C , that organization is supposed to draw together the various trade unions and what are we seeing , an ideal opportunity slipped from our grasp when the miners were facing the issue of jobs to public service workers should have linked up with the miners and we should have took the government on |
| 15 | How then could we tell whether the real universe should have started out with a big bang ? |
| 16 | ‘ We should have won out of the park , ’ commented McLean . |
| 17 | Now look at one of the letters you should have left out of the first question . |
| 18 | She had suggested that I should go and fill it , but there had been ice and snow outside , and darkness , and to reach the coal I should have to climb down into the concrete bunker . |
| 19 | Rubie 's Choice appeared to blow up at Marks Tey and should have come on for the race , while Zoe Turner , on her home track , can choose between As You Were and Royal Sting . |
| 20 | The doctor said the driver should have come round from the anaesthetic by now . ’ |
| 21 | She sat at the table and painstakingly wrote down the sums of money that should have come in for the work already done . |
| 22 | Top flight football should have come back to The Valley . |
| 23 | Mr McNeilage and another British research student , Jocelyn Milner , from Buckinghamshire , who arrived there earlier this month , should have pulled out of the centre in the tropical rainforest last week . |
| 24 | She should have got out of the system at Bank , she knew that now . |
| 25 | Should have got out after the Steiner incident . |
| 26 | Speaking from Sierra Leone , Moniba claimed that under the Constitution he should have taken over on the death of Doe in September , and he called on Sawyer 's interim government to step down . |
| 27 | … the earliest agriculture must have grown up round the shrines of the Mother Goddess , which thus became social and economic centres , as well as holy places , and were the germs of the future cities . |
| 28 | David Damiani set off from here with his family in April 1948 , and it was not difficult to see how clearly the old factory and the church above the city must have stood out on the horizon as the Argentina slipped past the tide bar and steamed for Beirut . |
| 29 | I must have fallen on to a sharp stick , I thought . |
| 30 | She had not been allowed make-up ; if she had , at that age , developed any idea of herself as having rights simply by virtue of being a pretty girl , it must have crept in between the covers of some acceptable book . |