Example sentences of "[modal v] have [vb pp] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You should 've thought of that , ’ said the foreman . |
| 2 | I mean , she 's told you about her three children but er I suppose she should 've thought of that , should n't she , before she signed on ? |
| 3 | Say no I 'm alright and I must 've lifted my head , all I could hear was this old scraggy voice like a witch , ah serve the fucking bastard right , the fucking honest to fuck , so I must 've sat for another half an hour and I knew I had to go that way to get home . |
| 4 | It puzzled him beyond measure that the boy should have stumbled upon this private area . |
| 5 | They should have gone into that game against Wales having forgotten the close match against Australia in the World Cup . |
| 6 | Yes you did it was er the advertisement I 'd seen or very similar in the Scotsman newspaper and I must admit when he got all the information I thought damn I should have gone for that myself . |
| 7 | Even when Vinnie left — although we sold him for either what we bought him , or maybe 50 grand more , he had a very good season at Leeds , proved he could play a bit , he should have gone for more . |
| 8 | ‘ What could be less noble in reason , ’ he wrote , ‘ less infinite in faculty , than that man , despite his potentialities , should have fallen into such error in the use of himself , and in this way brought about such a lowering in his standard of functioning that in everything he attempts to accomplish , these harmful conditions tend to become more and more exaggerated . |
| 9 | What was the reason for the growth between eighteen hundred and eighteen fifty because they had n't had sort of mass industrialization industrialization which had caused population growth in other countries so was there any particular reason why there 's should have trebled in that time ? |
| 10 | That her husband should have battled with that terrible illness for so long , and then after all of that should have died . |
| 11 | ‘ That his distinguished career should have ended in such tragic and unforeseen circumstances is regrettable . |
| 12 | That relics of them should have survived for such a vast period of time seemed even more difficult to believe . |
| 13 | Because you should have you should have heard by this time . |
| 14 | You should have seen to this . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ There 's a question I should have asked before this , Steve . ’ |
| 16 | In Wallshire Ltd v Aarons [ 1989 ] 1 EGLR 147 , it was argued that a surveyor conducting a rent review as an expert should have looked at more evidence of comparable lettings . |
| 17 | The TAC system should have provided for this , but the latest estimates of existing stocks were only 78,000 tonnes of cod and 81,000 tonnes of haddock , Holden 's report claimed . |
| 18 | Sometimes she fell into their style — endless crisis-discussions and grumbling about how other members of the family had behaved , or should have behaved to each other . |
| 19 | Perhaps not the best saint the church should have chosen for such a profession . |
| 20 | As he explained : ‘ It was not a play that should have toured at all . |
| 21 | ‘ I have that to tell you that I should have told before this , since it has to do with the issue that is now in dispute among all here . |
| 22 | We did not believe that the issue should have come within that particular article . |
| 23 | There was 110 possible reason why he should have wished at that stage to foreclose his options between December and January , or January and the spring . |
| 24 | She spoke as if she should have known about more than the dying town . |
| 25 | You really should have known about this , should n't you ? ’ |
| 26 | The buyer may have wanted the computer to expand his business and he will be able to claim the resulting loss in profits , provided the seller knew or should have known of this ; that is , it was in the reasonable contemplation of the parties . |
| 27 | We should have known after this start that life with Holmes would never be dull . |
| 28 | There had been rather a mystery as to why he should have died at that particular time . |
| 29 | Now they 're saying things should have improved by this time next year . |
| 30 | In a matter as fundamental as that of the constitution of the church , God could not have allowed that error should have persisted over such a period of time . |