Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | My horse went down a couple of times when we were riding along a shallow river The hooves must 've turned up the mud at the bottom and I 'm sorry but no amount of expert preparation can help you keep cool when a 500lb horse goes down on you . |
| 2 | ‘ Surely someone should have checked out the complaints more carefully . ’ |
| 3 | For many people the saddest aspect was the selectors ' policy of playing Randall at number three ; every fan in the country could have told them that he should have batted down the order and that exposing him so early was almost certain to fail . |
| 4 | The believe planners should have turned down the application . |
| 5 | ‘ It is much to be regretted , that the owner of the Purse Crag should have cut down the beautiful trees , which served so wonderfully to enrich the prospects on this side of the water . |
| 6 | It would need a profound belief in providence to make one refrain from wondering why a group of foggy islands off Europe 's north-western shores , populated beyond the means of subsistence that the islands could provide , endowed with no great natural assets outside the coalfields , should have become both the centre of a world empire and a possible arbiter of European rivalries . |
| 7 | hon. Friend the Member for Hexham ( Mr. Amos ) immediately in front of me , I should have welcomed equally the presence of the attractive blonde lady who was sitting in front of me last week , but she obviously has other things to do this week . |
| 8 | But there is little civic pride in Maan that its actions should have set off the train of events . |
| 9 | By now you should have picked up the signs directing you back to the Cat & Fiddle . |
| 10 | I much regret that such a new Member of Parliament should have picked up the churlish habits of other Labour Members . |
| 11 | Thus , he should have investigated how the patient has coped previously . |
| 12 | Should have laughed all the more were n't ya ? |
| 13 | She must have understood why the dog hung back . |
| 14 | The steep-sided valley of Stroud-Water in Gloucestershire must have presented much the same kind of picture , but Defoe does not attempt any description of it beyond saying that ‘ the clothiers Iye all along the banks of this river for near 20 miles ’ ; and Celia Fiennes passed along the high road over the uplands from Gloucester to Bath and failed to notice it at all . |
| 15 | The speed of descent must have cut down the exposure to any residual gas since he felt none of the earlier weirdness as he approached the still sealed engine room door . |
| 16 | The water really is n't that hot , usually , but my other one was fiddling with the boiler earlier — he must have turned up the thermostat . |
| 17 | He must have done exactly the same thing as I did when the panic hit him . |
| 18 | But I must have done well the term before , or perhaps he was slacking , or both , because there we were together and Nigel as he then called himself was asking for a pound . |
| 19 | In her haste to get away , she must have bundled up the documents and ledgers that she had been working on and brought them back with her . |
| 20 | The cavern was so huge that Benny thought they must have hollowed out the entire mountain . |
| 21 | Some thought the Führer must have meant only the losses on the eastern Front , not including Stalingrad and those missing , and put the real figure at something like one and a half million . |
| 22 | Someone must have torn out the right hand page . " |
| 23 | The origins of the military colony of Elephantine are unknown , but the author of the letter which goes under the name of Aristeas must have found somewhere the piece of information that Jewish soldiers helped Psammetichus in his campaign against the king of the Ethiopians ( 13 ) . |
| 24 | My own present stance and the position of the boy in the bed must have thrown up the embroidered , tasselled triangle hanging in blue , white and gold on the chapel wall . |
| 25 | ‘ Her father must have wondered where the money came from ; what did she tell him ? ’ |
| 26 | The trio were modifying the trolley with implements they must have brought in the pockets of the golf-bags . |
| 27 | Emil , who must have picked up the same signals , spoke with a true leader 's decisiveness . |
| 28 | You 'll having going down the bottom of the road here in a minute . |
| 29 | No my friend 's in the trade I said they 're basically working but they 've got a halt on somewhere because they 've come back you 'll have to sort out the you 've got but er they 're only one ten |
| 30 | ‘ I 'll have to lock up the pages before seven , and I doubt Mike will be able to do more than meet the deadline . |