Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [vb pp] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They possibly should have scored more tries , but as against England , the Welsh defended very well . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ He married Diana and he should have made much more of an effort with her rather than turning to another woman for support , ’ she said . |
| 3 | It looks really , I felt like saying to him , Sid you should have made that brass then I thought no , I wo n't . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm not sure you should have made such an attempt , ’ said the Count . |
| 5 | It may seem strange that Vitruvius , a Roman architect in the first century BC , interpreted by Palladio , an Italian in the sixteenth century , should have made such a mark upon Georgian England , but the values of Augustan Rome and Renaissance Italy have much in common with those of the Enlightenment . |
| 6 | If he had n't been , I should have made many more mistakes than I did and been more unhappy than I was . |
| 7 | I accept that we perhaps should have made this point clear in the December magazine . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | If it was not , then the Committee should have made this plain and opted for a different verbal formula . |
| 10 | You should have made this years and years ago should n't you ? |
| 11 | Travel agent Peter Marsh , 46 , of Colchester , Essex , said : ‘ Both should have made more effort to be together and to make the marriage work . |
| 12 | ‘ Sometimes I feel I should have made more of an effort with him , ’ Kate said . |
| 13 | I should have made more effort to get close to her , Claudia thought miserably ; all her efforts had been rebuffed , but , deny it or not , the bond was there and she hesitated to turn her sensitive twin over to Roman Wyatt 's not so tender mercy . |
| 14 | Steve Gaughan should have made more of a dangerous free kick on the edge of the Stoke box but fired his 20-yard effort wide . |
| 15 | He 'd been no more than another face around the yard on the two or three occasions that she 'd been by , no reason that he should have made any lasting impression on her at all . |
| 16 | ‘ But I 'm bound to say that in your position I think I should have made some enquiry into his bona fides . |
| 17 | Chandos , as narrator , describes the two who have agreed to remain loving friends with the luscious approval that ‘ suddenly faced with life in the midst of death , two natures so alike and so peerless should have comforted each other ’ ; they have in fact exchanged a kiss . |
| 18 | It is worth mentioning , however , that one of the emerging conclusions of the Welsh Affairs Committee inquiry ( though it is still early days ) is that CPRW could and should have done more to alert the Welsh Office to departures from planning policy and should have created more of a public stink over such abuses . |
| 19 | She should have drunk more of the wine . |
| 20 | No secret about the last time Gloucester played Northampton … the saints won 17-10 … the cherry and whites should have shredded this film |
| 21 | In three months , too , while she knew she would n't get a job that paid as well as the one she had now , she should have secured another job , should n't she ? |
| 22 | They should have kept that up — the Castle , Bolfracks , Ballechin , Kenmore , Fortingall … |
| 23 | that I had , oh I should have kept that ! |
| 24 | By then we should have completed any changes to the constitution and bye-laws , have decided on the long term future of our examination system and have strengthened our financial position so that we can meet the costs involved . |
| 25 | Once cooked , the lentils should have absorbed all of the water and feel soft in texture . |
| 26 | Held , allowing the appeal , ( 1 ) that there was no rule that the Crown was exempt from giving a cross-undertaking in damages in law enforcement proceedings , but that the court had a discretion not to require the undertaking and that the discretion extended to other public authorities exercising the function of law enforcement in appropriate circumstances ; and that subject to the impact of Community law the courts should have exercised that discretion ( post , pp. 173D–F , 181G — 182B , G–H , 190D–E ) . |
| 27 | I should have checked that should n't I ? |
| 28 | It is particularly ironic that a ruler in the age of Machiavelli should have caused such obsession with personal morality , or immorality — not least because her reign produced the first politician in the British Isles , her secretary William Maitland of Lethington , who was described as ‘ machiavellian ’ . |
| 29 | In this environment it is perhaps surprising that the early factories should have received such hostile criticism . |
| 30 | I really think by now , Earth Summit or no Earth Summit , that we should have received some acknowledgment from DGXI . |