Example sentences of "[modal v] have [vb pp] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | I accept that we perhaps should have made this point clear in the December magazine . |
| 2 | In the absence of coelacanths , it was still possible to toy with the idea that species and genera had their life-spans as individuals do , even though some ‘ living fossils ’ among plants should have made this more difficult than it was . |
| 3 | If it was not , then the Committee should have made this plain and opted for a different verbal formula . |
| 4 | You should have made this years and years ago should n't you ? |
| 5 | No secret about the last time Gloucester played Northampton … the saints won 17-10 … the cherry and whites should have shredded this film |
| 6 | I should have said this earlier : I did appreciate you withdrawing your notice . ’ |
| 7 | It may seem natural to a foreign scholar [ presumably Zachrisson : JM ] to suppose that the sound [ ae ] … might be spelt e ; but it is little short of incredible that native English-speaking scholars [ presumably Wyld : JM ] should have accepted this view . |
| 8 | Whatever people say to him in confidence and whatever they may say in twos or threes , if he had been here when the issue was raised on the Floor of the House only a week or so ago he would have realised — indeed he was here so he should have realised this instantly — that the leaders of the groups might come to an — |
| 9 | Johnson finds fault justifiably with Woodhouse 's early verse ; however , Woodhouse did become a good poet , though there is no reason why Johnson should have foreseen this . |
| 10 | The agent might , for example , be at fault if in the circumstances the consent could be taken as sufficient evidence that the agent has power to consent ( i.e. , that there were reasons for holding the consent valid ) and the agent should have realized this . |
| 11 | I am beginning to wonder whether I should have granted this private notice question . |
| 12 | ‘ I asked Budd to telephone the police in quite a peremptory way , as I considered he should have done this before . ’ |
| 13 | In a way it was more exciting than the act itself , and I was so physically enraptured that I said : " We should have done this before . " |
| 14 | I def I definitely should have done this tomorrow night . |
| 15 | Well let's think for just a moment , you know , we 've been talking over these last three or four weeks about faith and that , erm , let's just think , perhaps and we should have done this sooner , but I du n no , it it fits in th this morning , er perhaps just what , what faith is . |
| 16 | You should have done this ages ago . |
| 17 | I 'd create an extra note and I 'd just laugh at myself and think , ‘ I never should have written this song ! ’ |
| 18 | This much was true , that I often found myself in my mother 's kitchen staring at the array of condiments , spices , herbs and tinned foods , wondering why she should have bought this particular kind of split peas , rather than another . |
| 19 | Perhaps it is not remarkable , after all , that no poet should have described this world to us before it expired , described it in language that would bring home to us what kind of world it actually was and how its inhabitants looked upon it , for it was above all a peasant world and the peasant was inarticulate . |
| 20 | Right , you should have finished this , have you ? |
| 21 | It seems rather more than fortuitous that Franco should have chosen this spot , for it was only 10 kilometres from the imposing palace , monastery and royal pantheon of El Escorial , built by Philip II in the sixteenth century . |
| 22 | She should have expected this turn-around . |
| 23 | Back , outstanding throughout , said : ‘ We should have won this with room to spare . |
| 24 | They could ; and should have won this match and the players have to look to themselves . |
| 25 | Now on form Swindon should have walked this game against Brighton and that 's just what they were doing … strolling when the seagulls went flying into the lead after just six minutes … good goal for Mark Gall he took the chance well . |
| 26 | The one reservation about the recording is that he was not advised to lean or step back a fraction on climactic high notes , which in consequence are disproportionately emphatic ( e.g. in Minnelied im Mai or the rapturous Frühlingslied ) and almost in danger of blasting : the recording supervisor should have watched this more carefully . |
| 27 | The massive demonstrations against the war in several Arab and Muslim countries since the war started should have dispelled this illusion . |
| 28 | He should have known this would happen in Lancaster Road . |
| 29 | He should have known this would never work . |
| 30 | She seems to have been wholly unaware that she was in fact queen of a kingdom with a justifiably high opinion of itself — so much so that it is actually supremely ironic that Mary , brought up in one of the greatest of European countries , should have found this one , smaller , but passionately European , so much less interesting and appealing than the kingdom of England , not only Scotland 's traditional enemy , but already beginning the descent into the isolation which it was to maintain for much of the seventeenth century . |