Example sentences of "[modal v] have [verb] [adv prt] to [art] " in BNC.

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1 Well the skipper of the hopper , he get into trouble for that cos he should have gone out to the dumping ground .
2 You should have gone back to the optician when you had the eye infection , as this was clear evidence that there was something wrong .
3 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 .
4 ‘ Once one has reached forty , one should have faced up to the fact of one 's own death , ’ Richard says .
5 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 .
6 Top flight football should have come back to The Valley .
7 I must have fallen on to a sharp stick , I thought .
8 Rather too pertinent , I thought , for the place 's original dweller , who must have gone down to the Atlantic in a small boat on many a stormy night .
9 She thought Finn must have gone down to the workroom .
10 She must have faced up to the worst outcome , in the process .
11 Jon , as he proudly watched the Union Jack raised above his head , must have thought back to the days when , as Oxford University Boat Race president , the only flag he looked at was the skull and crossbones which hung in his study with a menacing message written underneath : ‘ Death Zone — No Prisoners . ’
12 I 'm afraid you 'll have to wake up to the fact that that kind of man from that kind of a family would n't know the meaning of love . ’
13 I 'll have to go back to the shop , and check up on them , as I said , hut I imagine you wo n't grudge me a glass of brandy first . "
14 ‘ Could n't we have a second chair ? ’ ventured John Gould , inciting the first major row : ‘ We 'll have to re-think the whole thing ’ says James ‘ we 'll have to go back to the very beginning and re-block it ! ’
15 ‘ I suppose , ’ she ventured as they neared Water Gypsy , ‘ you 'll have to go back to the beechwoods this morning .
16 You 'll have to go back to the nursery .
17 The box in the bathroom is empty , you 'll have to go out to the veranda . ’
18 I think it 'll have to go down to the post office , I 've write to Diane now
19 I 'll have to go down to the roundabout and come back up .
20 ‘ If Gebrec was upset or worried about something and just wanted to be alone to think things over , ’ said Jack , ‘ he might have gone up to the belvedere , or down by the river where we went yesterday to do our painting . ’
21 She had risen this morning with the intention of going into town and meandering among the shops , perhaps treating herself to a new bonnet , or buying Cissie those pretty boots she had so admired some days ago when the two of them had walked up and down Ainsworth Street , browsing in all the shop-windows ; afterwards , Beth might have called in to the delightful tea rooms at the comer of the boulevard .
22 They said I might have to go down to the police station and be interviewed there later in their inquiries .
23 He might have to go back to the road and start again .
24 I 'll , I 'll be going to the village hall but I might have to go back to the Cross Keys , that 's why I put Roger , perhaps I put the wrong thing on you see ?
25 I might have to walk up to the pier to find a bin . ’
26 Eventually these persons might have to face up to a period of crisis , of self-examination , and so achieve ego-identity by route C. However , foreclosure does offer an escape route and an individual might postpone indefinitely any real self-examination by clinging rigidly to his [ or her ] beliefs and values ( route D ) .
27 ‘ No , I 'm afraid I ca n't — and I 'm also afraid that you might have to face up to the fact that Silas has n't got private talks in mind , ’ Lucy pointed out gently .
28 He might have got on to the motorway . ’
29 Not even hard blows a man could take with dignity , only the manner of measured punishment he might have dealt out to a misbehaving child with whom he had not lost patience .
30 But again , see again cos we 're not following the actual script , the picking up and pinpointing people mentioned in earlier conversations , which you would 've done if you 'd 've gone back to the planning the future .
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