Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [verb] [vb pp] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Two of the several names owned by another recipient had strayed into someone 's word-processor to create a further deserving don , the knowing reference to whom must have ruined the new year for more than one senior scholar . |
2 | ‘ But Ivy has turned out to be so good for me I must have done the right thing . |
3 | Somehow I must have missed the original LPs ( or perhaps they were never released this side of the Atlantic ) , but here are Jean-Pierre Rampal , Isaac Stern , Yo-Yo Ma mixing it up with Japanese instrumentalists , playing traditional oriental music alongside pieces by Yamada , Miyagi , and Yoshizawa , amongst others . |
4 | I must have missed the next few sentences . |
5 | Sorry , I 'm reading the wrong dates here That 's right , it ca n't be the twelfth , I must have meant the fourteenth . |
6 | So I told him I must have got the wrong number . |
7 | ‘ I must have spent the last week talking to hundreds of players . |
8 | I should have flung the damned thing out of his open door so that it would bounce down the mountainside up which the road was climbing . |
9 | No bu I 'm sorry , the other thing I 'm sorry I should have said the other thing I 'm going on is when things were last done , |
10 | Well I should have done the financial |
11 | I should have done the Financial Times . |
12 | However , I should have done the proper cockpit checks which I certainly did ever after . |
13 | Oh I should have kept the other one . |
14 | I should have stayed the whole night in your bed , with you in my arms . |
15 | ‘ I should have realised the two of you were n't a couple , ’ Vitor reflected , when he had finished his sandwiches . |
16 | I should have started the annual parish meeting at seven and followed by |
17 | If one 's opponent has anti-tank weapons I should have thought the last thing to send in would be tanks . |
18 | I should have known the only answer ever is to stand and fight . |
19 | Enoch Powell later cited this indication of my position as a kind of pledge from which , when events turned out as they did , I should have had the whole Cabinet 's leave formally to withdraw . |
20 | I might 've guessed the worst when the scrum fell apart for me like the Red Sea . |
21 | But Lawson then covers his back : ‘ For a time I was concerned that I might have made the wrong choice as Chief Secretary — a view I suspect was shared by John Major himself . ’ |
22 | You and I might have done the same if we had been there , though we would have had none of the technical skill and detailed knowledge of Fleming . |
23 | ‘ I might have done the same myself , in her place . |
24 | ‘ By half term I might have finished the last one . |
25 | I 've wiped this I 'll have washed the whole floor . |
26 | Someone might have warned the poor girl that Peckinpah 's movies do have that effect on some people . |
27 | I only wish I could have hit the third . ’ |
28 | ‘ I could have killed the bloody swine ! ’ |
29 | I could have done that or I could have done the instrumental album . |
30 | He 's been there for weeks and I could have done the whole thing in a couple of days . |