Example sentences of "you [vb mod] have [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Ye should have poured a whole bottle of lysol down it before me . ’ |
| 2 | You may have made a genuine mistake or misrepresented a situation . |
| 3 | You may have done a good job on your own patch but you can not clear the entire neighbourhood . |
| 4 | Now , if you were out and about at about ten o'clock last night you may have seen a greenish glow in the sky . |
| 5 | Make contact with the so-called " special clinic " ( department of genito-urinary medicine ) at your local hospital if you have any reason whatever to suspect that you may have contracted a venereal disease . |
| 6 | Looking back on that then , you must have lost a great number of colleagues and workmates that it must give you sort of mixed feelings looking back on it ? |
| 7 | ‘ You must have had a hard month of it , ’ she said . |
| 8 | Moving on , erm in te you know obviously you must have had a fair amount of c you said you had a fair amount of contact with erm tenants in the flats . |
| 9 | ‘ You must have had a full life ? ’ |
| 10 | The other thing they say , if they 're Terrans , or actually , especially if they 're not , is , Well , you must have spent a good deal of time on Good Old Mother Earth . |
| 11 | ‘ You must have got a few in the Houses of Parliament , ’ he said , smiling . |
| 12 | By week 3 , you should have lost a few pounds — at least four , possibly as many as eight — and you may notice a number of minor health problems have begun to improve . |
| 13 | ‘ Then you should have packed a smaller one — as you were told to do ! ’ |
| 14 | A few moments later , you should have converted a printed page into a text file you can load into your word processor . |
| 15 | You should have had a tough education . |
| 16 | You should have got a bigger size in n it Dawn ? |
| 17 | But if you looked carefully at the left-hand side , where there was a glass-enclosed porch , you might have noticed a few little birds flying around , the odd flash and flitter of coloured wings . |
| 18 | So you might have entered a wonderful poem to that competition and Philip Larkin never got a chance to look at it . |
| 19 | Although you might have driven a long way to get there , do n't put yourself into a situation you ca n't handle . |
| 20 | But the converse is that if you can make it work you 'll have bought a fair lease on a prime site that you could never have afforded in the ordinary way . |
| 21 | Let me try erm a straw poll on you and I 'm going to ask those of you , I 'll give you a moment or two , who would 've signed up the Maastricht Treaty and who would not have signed up the Maastricht Treaty if you 'd 've had a free vote ? |
| 22 | I 'd have thought you 'd have made a better job of it . ’ |
| 23 | The doctors told me they had high hopes that in a year you 'd have made a full recovery . |
| 24 | Practising freekicks , with no ball , on no pretext other than looking as if you 'd have done a marvellous job if there had been a ball . |
| 25 | The final sting in the tail , however , is that adding a decent keyboard to your Spectrum is , while adding to its usefulness , going to raise its price to a level where you 'd have got a decent keyboard included in the cost . |
| 26 | Oh , good child , she teased herself , if only you 'd done this at school and art college , you 'd have got a first . |
| 27 | Pity you were n't a captain , then you 'd have got a bigger disability pension . ’ |
| 28 | You might not have minded giving up your sweets , because you , you 'd have got a different kind of gratification . |
| 29 | Because you 'd have got a queue of traffic here , you 'd have had a terrible junction |
| 30 | A game 's a game , but you could have piled me up back there , and then you 'd have had a few questions to answer ! ’ |