Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [vb pp] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh you should 've heard him other day , all Parker pens that are in this house are his he says |
| 2 | Having been taught that , at a time when priests were not disagreed with , it is small wonder that John Kennedy should have involved himself , and thousands after him , in an anti-Communist crusade in Vietnam ; that Joseph McCarthy should have conducted his anti-Communist witch-hunts ; or that Casey should have made the fight against Communism his life 's work , even asking that money should be given after his death not for flowers , but for the contras . |
| 3 | At the same time a reasonable increase in filtration would be needed because of the larger amount of water and , to be honest , I should have built my original brick filter larger than I did . |
| 4 | I should have kept my happy memories . |
| 5 | You should have kept your biting friend on a shorter leash . ’ |
| 6 | Tutors/Students Packs ( Modular System ) By now all tutors should have received their free copy of the above , with a request from National Office to check the text and to advise of any errors or omissions without delay . |
| 7 | The bottle you tasted six months ago is now softer and more appealing ; the one you drank yesterday should have lost its sharp edges by the summer . |
| 8 | For their part , Sonnabend agree that Halley has the right to leave them but claim that he should have honoured his verbal agreement to put together the 1991 May show . |
| 9 | Well maybe I should have given him two weeks instead of one , but , anyway . |
| 10 | Evidence at the coroner 's court should have given him little confidence in the outcome , but events took an upward turn when Marion Lindo stepped into the witness box . |
| 11 | Your check list should have given you some words , but maybe not in different positions , so you may need to ask your language helper for some more words . |
| 12 | ‘ I should have given you more time , ’ Mr O'Hara continued . |
| 13 | ‘ She should have developed her own style . ’ |
| 14 | Research by London Weekend Television , however , has shown that light ITV viewers , who can be expected to see a given commercial very few times , are just as likely to recognize it as those who should have seen it several times . |
| 15 | You should have seen us last Saturday . |
| 16 | However , the Government should have done something this year to mitigate the costs of that 20 per cent . |
| 17 | The door was slammed wide , and he came at her with the speed of the vehicle that should have killed him two nights before . |
| 18 | Brucie should have asked his old mucker why he had apparently given up his comedy career to become a fulltime golfer , but he seemed more interested in sticking to what appeared to be a well-prepared script . |
| 19 | Brucie should have asked his old mucker why he had apparently given up his comedy career to become a full-time golfer , but he seemed more interested in sticking to what appeared to be a well-prepared script . |
| 20 | Brucie should have asked his old mucker why he had apparently given up his comedy career to become a full-time golfer , but he seemed more interested in sticking to what appeared to be a well-prepared script . |
| 21 | ‘ Meaning that I should have trusted my first impressions of you . ’ |
| 22 | Bush should have trusted his own misgivings about attending the dinner , confessing he knew it would be ‘ something sorrowful and sad ’ . |
| 23 | He should have read his earlier editions . |
| 24 | I should have discharged myself this morning . ’ |
| 25 | It is perhaps ironic that a financier whose fortunes had foundered on the unreliability of the royal credit should have busied himself three years after his bankruptcy with devising a project for a national bank whose impracticability his own fate had spectacularly demonstrated . |
| 26 | How rude of me , I should have offered you some tea or coffee . ’ |
| 27 | They argued that the auditors should have qualified their 1982 audit report and that , had they done so , Berg would not have been able to continue to trade . |
| 28 | ‘ Pay Homage should have won his last race at Goodwood and he 's been in fine form all year , ’ Ian said . |
| 29 | Scientific studies have established that 80 per cent of the salmon they have been systematically killing were returning to your rivers and should have laid your golden eggs . |
| 30 | And this is a , should have drawn it that way round , |