Example sentences of "[modal v] have [verb] [pron] at [art] " in BNC.
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1 | You should have phoned us at the Club . ’ |
2 | Dawn Allenby , a masochist if ever there was one , should have prostrated herself at the feet of Desmond Fairchild , a sadist in a trilby hat worn with the brim turned up all the way round like vaudeville comic . |
3 | ‘ You should have told me at the time ! ’ |
4 | I should have told you at the beginning . |
5 | Er I should have reminded everybody at the beginning , when you wish when you start to speak , would you please introduce yourself , give your name and who you represent . |
6 | He must have heard her at the door . |
7 | You must have seen him at the pictures . ‘ |
8 | Because if that 's it , you 'll have to warn them at the hospital , you know . |
9 | Oh it was a nice ball that by , shoots and scores , Notts get a second just moments after they might have conceded one at the other end , the referee unimpressed by the penalty claims but the crowd are there , with a really fine piece of finishing by Gary , nine minutes to half time and adds to the one that got in twenty four , and it 's two nil to Notts County against . |
10 | — as she might have said herself at the time ) . |
11 | We might have got her at the ferry . ’ |
12 | But having said that surely Wilkinson could have kept him at the club , for someone who says that players are picked on the performances they produce how can he explain Deane ? |
13 | Last year and this year they could have upgraded it at a cost much greater than the initial expenditure and much less efficiently . |
14 | It is too late at the appeal stage to think about getting evidence which could have helped you at the beginning . |
15 | We 'd have seen her at the window long ago , and got her down . ’ |
16 | Anyway I realized I 'd have missed you at the Club , so I turned round and set off back . |
17 | Their one hundred and fifty ton heavy life crane would have coped with that job easily enough but I hastily declined his offer which , apart from any other consideration would have placed me at a slight disadvantage . |
18 | ‘ He would have seen her at the races , ’ I said , smiling . |
19 | For a new act , I would have to pitch them at the right venue for their type of music . |
20 | We would have expected them at the beginning , and as we are still at the beginning , they ought to be here . |
21 | She had at times , almost as if it were a comfort , at least something accustomed , run through the fruitless litany of remorse : I ought not to have tolerated his infidelities , I ought to have stopped it at the start , I have colluded with his depravity , it is all my fault . |
22 | Erm , and we 've had , I 'm afraid to give protective notice to six members of staff , it 's about er , discussions with the erm , Tech , are not successful , then they will have to leave us at the end of this programme year , which is the thirty-first of March . |
23 | The Government will have to defend itself at an international legal inquiry against allegations that the SAS operated a shoot-to-kill policy . |