Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [verb] [pron] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I loved him ; what more natural than that I should want to give him the chance to love me back ? |
| 2 | ‘ The Prime Minister must make known what the Government 's plans are . |
| 3 | There is no more natural monopoly than the public utility of water supply and it is obscene that anyone should seek to make it the instrument of private advantage . |
| 4 | They really should give give you a magazine article itself about the Tay Bridge . |
| 5 | For my purpose I should like to call him the man in the jury box , for the moral judgement of society must be something about which any twelve men or women drawn at random might after discussion be expected to be unanimous . |
| 6 | If we can put all this point-scoring to one side , I should like to ask him a question concerning several thousand of my constituents . |
| 7 | The Cathedral could be got into at any time by the Bishop 's door , given how unlikely it was that the Bishop in his currently abstracted state should remember to lock it every time he used it . |
| 8 | so er we must remember to buy him a card and something |
| 9 | The departure from her old home and her arrival in her new one will be a tremendous double adjustment for her to make , so you should try to give it a sense of occasion . |
| 10 | I should have hit him a lot harder in the first place . |
| 11 | Desperation and hunger had addled hir senses : SHe should have guessed what the score would be . |
| 12 | ‘ We should have beaten them a couple of weeks ago when we finished all square and I have every faith in the boys , ’ asserts Nelson , ‘ Since then we went very close against Tipperary and given the self-belief the team now possesses I think we can give a very good account of ourselves on Sunday . ’ |
| 13 | In this Style File ( perhaps we should have called it a Riff File ) we will look at some of his best known parts , as taken from his extremely successful ‘ Reckless ’ and ‘ Waking Up The Neighbours ’ LPs … |
| 14 | They should have called it the charge of the bike brigade . |
| 15 | Should have nabbed him the park though ! |
| 16 | ‘ That she should have given him the letter a week after his arrival . |
| 17 | But if I was integrating a sine , it would have come from a cos and the cos should have given me a minus sine . |
| 18 | The arrival of Deacon Billingsley should have given me the satisfaction that my telephone call had been treated seriously , but I sensed this policeman was not going to offer me any satisfaction at all . |
| 19 | ‘ My God , they should have given me an Oscar . |
| 20 | We should have given her a call . ’ |
| 21 | Should have given us the money , money . |
| 22 | should have given us the nudge . |
| 23 | Or are you saying I should have given you a child ? ’ |
| 24 | This 28-day programme should have given you the opportunity to come to terms with your body . |
| 25 | I should have given you the benefit of the doubt . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I suppose I should have given you the choice before I took matters into my own hands . ’ |
| 27 | You should have bought me a man , and not a threadbare purse . ’ |
| 28 | John Dobbin , defending , said the interviewer ‘ should have expected someone the age of her own father ’ . |
| 29 | It was the Edinburgh man 's only success from four attempts , and with Nick White failing with four attempts earlier in the game , the Scots squandered opportunities that should have won them the game comfortably . |
| 30 | I should have give him a fiver . |