Example sentences of "[modal v] have [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She should have felt happy , relieved — that was what she had wanted , was n't it ? |
| 3 | He should have felt happy . |
| 4 | ‘ But if you were trying to keep it secret you should have made sure you bribed your porter not to talk . ’ |
| 5 | Stirling should have made sure of victory and further ease their own relegation worries after taking a 25th minute lead through Willie Watters . |
| 6 | Within five years we should have made substantial progress towards a Herbarium database , integrated with BG-BASE software , and with software for Herbarium loans and labels . |
| 7 | He believed that if ‘ 1 had played cricket as a ‘ gentleman ’ I should have made sufficient out of my ‘ expenses ’ to retire by now . ’ |
| 8 | The fact that I was in a prison camp at all should have made clear to me the ruthlessness and irresistibility of the stampede . |
| 9 | The earlier discussion should have made clear that the postclassical perspective does not allow for the degree of certainty or inevitability that such terms are usually taken to imply . |
| 10 | It was something to do with Dana ; what was n't so clear was why Roman should have sounded upset because Dana had n't told her herself . |
| 11 | Looking back , it should have sounded strange , after waiting all that time in the gynae clinic , and not even seeing a doctor . |
| 12 | I should have kept cool . |
| 13 | I should have kept quiet and remained as the focus of disapproval . |
| 14 | I think that parson who discovered you were a d'Urberville should have kept quiet . |
| 15 | If he wanted a real , one hundred per cent unprejudiced check he should have kept quiet . |
| 16 | ‘ A blow like that should have caused massive bruising . |
| 17 | This information after all should have received confidential and does belong to other people , does n't it ? |
| 18 | The Government has itself predicted that the number of Legal Aid Certificates issued this year will drop from 410,000 to 287,000 which means that over 30% of those who should have received legal aid will be deprived of access to justice . |
| 19 | In the face of the dreadful attacks on police officers , the Home Office should have put together an urgent review team which should have incorporated other Departments and put forward a package of measures . |
| 20 | Why this control procedure should have attenuated latent inhibition is not clear , but evidently the presence of S2 can have this effect even when it is not ( as is required by current theories ) presented immediately after S1 . |
| 21 | ‘ Perhaps I should have said razor-sharp , ’ he murmured . |
| 22 | ‘ I always said we should have gone straight back . |
| 23 | Maybe you should have gone other bloody way ! |
| 24 | ‘ We should have gone metric years ago . ’ |
| 25 | Driving and development was well in hand all over the mining leasehold and matters should have appeared promising to both the Adventurers and the income of the estate . |
| 26 | Benhabyles , as chair of the Constitutional Council , should have assumed interim presidential powers in the absence of a Speaker of the National Assembly , but was apparently unwilling to take on this responsibility , under which he would have been obliged to organize presidential elections within 45 days . |
| 27 | The finger pointed at education could not easily be pushed aside , particularly at a time when the period of education had been extended and the school population , on both sides of the Atlantic , was beginning to diminish factors which should have favoured significant improvement . |
| 28 | It is unsurprising that the cinema should have sought legal parity with the theatre on questions of obscenity , which it did in a petition forwarded to the Home Secretary by the BBFC in 1977 on behalf of the Cinema Consultative Committee , which comprised delegates from the film industry and from all the associations of local licensing authorities in Great Britain and Northern Ireland . |
| 29 | There is no earthly reason why the Community should have harmonised social benefits . |
| 30 | Foremost among these is why the experiment summarized in Fig. 4.5(a) should have revealed context-specificity when formally equivalent experiments ( e.g. by Lovibond et al . |