Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [verb] [vb pp] the [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 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 . |