Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [vb pp] [adv] [subord] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Stone 1988 : 38 ) ( " When Agamemnon does the unthinkable , i.e. brings his concubine home , something which he should have known better than to do … " ) |
| 2 | ( The Times , 13 June 1974 : 25.4 ; in Erdmann 1982 : 104 ) ( " Mr Benn has dared do something he should have known better than to do , given Prime Minister Wilson 's present hostility towards any statement that might upset private industry . " ) |
| 3 | I should have known better than to take the word of any of that crowd from Donovan 's Square . ’ |
| 4 | This covert attitude of declaring oneself unable to conceive as possible an exercising of audacity which in fact really took place gives the impression that the speaker thinks that the persons who did the action should have known better than to try . |
| 5 | But I should have known better than to accept anyone recommended by you . " |
| 6 | She should have known better than to think he would bring it to her , miserable sinner that she was . |
| 7 | He should have known better than to think Ben would not ask that question . |
| 8 | Devious devil ; she should have known better than to think she could fool him . |
| 9 | ‘ I should have known better than to think you 'd back down . ’ |
| 10 | The policeman should have known better than to expect Duncan to fall for a cheap trick like that . |
| 11 | And he should have known better than to have his secretary type it . |
| 12 | ( Sun , 24 September 1975 : 26 – 1 ; in Erdmann 1982 : 99 ) ( implies that they should have known better than to cross gloves with Joe Louis ) |
| 13 | That law might have developed so as to recognise a condictio indebiti — an action for the recovery of money on the ground that it was not due . |
| 14 | He did n't know ‘ what statement Mr. Gibbon had made to the other gentlemen or what reasoning they could have employed so as to sign a paper declaring the fact of urinous vomiting to be utterly impossible — here I must be at issue with them believing as I do … from my little physiological knowledge , that vomiting of urine for 26 weeks is by no means impossible … ’ . |
| 15 | The first issue before us , as it was before Thorpe J. , was whether Parliament had , by section 8 of the Family Law Reform Act 1969 , conferred on a minor over the age of 16 years an absolute right to refuse medical treatment , in which case the limitation of the court 's inherent jurisdiction exemplified by A. v. Liverpool City Council [ 1982 ] A.C. 363 would have operated so as to preclude any intervention by the court . |