Example sentences of "[modal v] have [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought Clarke should have scored a second goal when he went through . ’ |
| 2 | He missed a few chances ; reckoned he should have scored a hat-trick . |
| 3 | I believe the government should have conducted a proper and wide review into the role and duty of auditors , not just in the area covered by these orders , but also throughout the whole of industry . |
| 4 | Threat to insurers AS THE £1.1bn takeover bid by Australian Mutual Provident , Australia 's largest life insurer , gets underway for the Pearl Group , a new survey suggests that perhaps the Australians should have made a bid for a building society . |
| 5 | It was not , perhaps , as improbable as it sounds that McCarthy should have made a target of the Army . |
| 6 | He should have made a point of looking at the evening coverage before doing his own piece ; but he 'd seen the people they 'd sent to the press conference at the hospital , dismissed them as unlikely to do a decent job on it , and promptly forgotten them . |
| 7 | I should have made a list . |
| 8 | On a good pitch and with a fast outfield , Indian should have made a better fist of their innings , but only Srikkanth ( who fell to an outstanding catch by Peter Taylor at mid-off ) passed 20 as Australia 's allrounders ran through the order . |
| 9 | One hundred and seventy years have passed since the proclamation of the Hatt-i-Sherif , and in the course of all that time a State like Serbia in Europe should have made a far greater civilisational , cultural and economic leap . |
| 10 | Jacques Tati should have made a film here . |
| 11 | I should have made a point of following up his sickness , thought Cadfael , touched , but I thought he , of all people , would make good sure he got all the treatment he needed . |
| 12 | Secondly , we should have made a moral commitment to the single currency . |
| 13 | It is astonishing that he should have made a riposte about housing benefit being available to the poor for housing costs and to have given the impression that he was in favour of housing benefit . |
| 14 | The Government should have made a statement on the way in which the police national computer operates ; it should not have been necessary for me or the National Council for Civil Liberties to prise information from them . |
| 15 | It was ironical that he should have made a magical 153 against Notts , while England 's batsmen floundered at Old Trafford . |
| 16 | A solicitor for the Robinson family said that the staff at the hospital should have made a call to the Southern General . |
| 17 | In the light of the evidence that a full planning meeting was due to be held on 30 December 1991 , the justices should either have adjourned the application until after that meeting or should have made an order to last until shortly after that meeting . |
| 18 | ‘ the justices were under a duty to make any secure accommodation order only for as long as was necessary ’ — and again the guidance and regulations are referred to — ‘ In the light of the evidence that a full planning meeting was due to be held on 30 December 1991 the magistrates should either have adjourned the application until after that meeting or should have made an order to last until shortly after that meeting . |
| 19 | She said Judge Allen should have made an example of Clarke and she criticised an earlier sentence he received for a 1983 drink driving offence — a £150 fine and 18-month ban . |
| 20 | That such a natural loyalist should have met a traitor 's end reflects all Edward II 's failings as a political manager . |
| 21 | The press-gang gave politicians an effective method of giving a very real service to the parties more directly concerned , and it was one which should have created a lasting sense of obligation , for life before the mast in one of His Majesty 's ships was not likely to be easily forgotten . |
| 22 | Prima facie , the development of a capital-goods sector should have created a vested interest in innovation in the consumer-goods industries , as well as a major new outlet for independent inventors of production machinery . |
| 23 | But Knox , who was the most brilliant orator of his generation at Oxford — star of the Union , wit , punster in tongues ancient and modern — had left Oxford before the end of the First World War to become a Roman Catholic , and after his return there as chaplain to the Catholics , it was perhaps understandable that he should have kept a low profile . |
| 24 | ‘ I should have kept a short rope on you and then you would never have escaped me . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Ye should have poured a whole bottle of lysol down it before me . ’ |
| 26 | You should have worn a coat over that dress — the night 's not warm enough for an outfit like that . ’ |
| 27 | I SHOULD have worn a hat . |
| 28 | Perhaps I should have formed a better plan ; perhaps I should have made instead for the Villa Diodati , to see if I could secure any friends and allies there . |
| 29 | In retrospect , for example , many Gaullists concluded that he should have formed a Gaullist movement of the kind that he formed , too late , in 1947 — a movement that could have channelled popular adulation into usable political support . |
| 30 | All ( 1991 ) Group members should have received a free copy . |