Example sentences of "[modal v] have [vb pp] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He even sold himself short saying : ‘ I should have scored three . |
| 2 | McGeechan reflected that Scotland probably should have scored three tries and there was some suspicion about the Scottish scrummage ( though preparation for the England game in that regard will not be as fraught as last week ) . |
| 3 | Villa were quicker and slicker ; their manager , Ron Atkinson , reckoned his team should have scored 6 or more . |
| 4 | In view of the fact that £20 constituted the base line for richer taxpayers , it is difficult to explain why mere husbandmen , who typically were small farmers , should have formed three-quarters of the £20-£39 class , far outnumbering yeomen , businessmen , and even gentlemen . |
| 5 | I have passed The Secrets of Speed Reading to my colleague and Booker judge Nicholas Clee , who by test 10 should have reached 1,050 words per minute . |
| 6 | This course equips you to skipper by day with some confidence , but you need previous experience ; you should have sailed 5 days on a yacht , with 4 hours night sailing and 100 miles logged . |
| 7 | Instead Wolstenholme should have shot 70 or 71 but finished with a creditable par 72 , which included no fewer than five birdies . |
| 8 | They should have fitted one of those glass bead peep-holes . |
| 9 | pointed out that the meeting needed to grant an indulgence to waive the requirement that candidates for First and Second Vice Presidents should have served two years on a National Committee . |
| 10 | And he should have gotten three or four hours of interviews and meeting . |
| 11 | You know , I should have done four by tomorrow . |
| 12 | Oh well yes I should have done one word . |
| 13 | They should have waited two years more , Henry thought bitterly , until the people had come to hate me even more than they hated Richard . |
| 14 | ‘ I prayed that I would see you again , ’ he said , ‘ so I could ask the question I should have asked five years ago . |
| 15 | ‘ Ah , but I should have acted six years ago , I should have taken you then when you were vulnerable in your confusion — as I supposed — involved with a recently married man , presumably for the first time , and not knowing what it was you felt for me because you were so sure Jones was all you wanted . |
| 16 | The address for Antique Designs Ltd printed in the March issue should have read 277 Little Road , SW6 . |
| 17 | It should have read 300 years . |
| 18 | ‘ We defended badly and threw away a game we should have won 3–0 , ’ he said angrily . |
| 19 | He commented : ‘ We were very honoured to be nominated in three categories of the ITV Awards for Marketing , and delighted that we should have won two . |
| 20 | If I 'd been fourteen years old I should have commanded one shilling , but being only twelve and a half I got sixpence . |
| 21 | According to their lines , they should have died thirty or forty years ago ! |
| 22 | I have already mentioned the stipulation that before I could qualify for married status I should have passed two language exams . |
| 23 | ‘ We should have had seven or eight but I think my lads ' New Year resolution is to turn my hair completely grey — we simply must find some consistency . ’ |
| 24 | The comprehensive schools , in a perfectly adjusted system , should have had 20 per cent of their pupils in the top 20 per cent of the ability range : in fact , they had only 15 per cent and one-quarter of the schools had less than 5 per cent . |
| 25 | One of the Liverpool goals was lucky , Deane should have had 3 penalties , the ref got a lot of stick from the Leeds fans , etc . |
| 26 | We bought one ( a mistake , we should have got two ) to supplement an old ladle-handle type of thing dug out from my past , and a hammer and a few pegs to be on the safe side . |
| 27 | The members of the branch were indignant that the government should have planted two spies among them . |
| 28 | It depends what I feel like playing , because I 've got into the blues lately and I 'm learning all these licks I should have learned ten , fifteen years ago ! |
| 29 | I 've got into the blues lately and I 'm learning all these licks I should have learned ten , fifteen years ago ! |
| 30 | The journey from Marseilles to the Holy Land should have taken fifteen days . |