Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [vb pp] you [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Someone should have shut you in a hospital for the criminally insane and thrown away the key . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I should have warned you about the crush . ’ |
| 3 | I should have asked you into the house to dry it out ! ’ |
| 4 | I should have told you at the beginning . |
| 5 | By then , the techniques of study should have soaked you in the subjects you are studying . |
| 6 | It should have convinced you of the importance of proceeding beyond bivariate relationships to considering systems in which three or more variables are operating together . |
| 7 | He must have seen you through the window and he kissed me to punish me . |
| 8 | He must have told you about a Darkfall back there . |
| 9 | If I 'd told you about the entry earlier on it might have lulled you into a false sense of complacency . |
| 10 | I could have directed you to a loch that is right by the side of the road where you would have caught nothing all day . ’ |
| 11 | Elaine could have left you on a doorstep , wrapped in a tea-towel . |
| 12 | It is too late at the appeal stage to think about getting evidence which could have helped you at the beginning . |
| 13 | Anyway I realized I 'd have missed you at the Club , so I turned round and set off back . |
| 14 | They 'd have put you in an asylum and featured your aggressive , dangerous-looking profile in a textbook for the medical profession . |
| 15 | Your experience of previous similar texts in the 1970s may have familiarised you with the form X rule OK which may permit you to divide this unpunctuated sequence into two parts : |
| 16 | Your college or lecturers may have provided you with a selected list . |
| 17 | Because one of the commitments I hope John er may have told you on the phone , one of the parts of the contract we have with G A is that they provide a list of businesses . |
| 18 | Now erm you will already know and I certainly would 've told you on the phone that er you are not responsible for setting the assignments up . |
| 19 | A few years ago , if you had asked almost any biologist what was special about living things as opposed to nonliving things , he would have told you about a special substance called protoplasm . |
| 20 | Well I 'll tell you what I I you know seriously er with what Norman would have told you on the phone self employed commission only erm if you er I I 'm surprised you came to see us . |
| 21 | I ought to have stopped you in the beginning — I ought to have walloped you good and hard instead of hiding the things and pretending I did n't know anything about it . |
| 22 | When er I I John I hope will have told you on the phone that you have no responsibility for setting the assignments . |
| 23 | In telling you how it works we will have told you about the basic peculiarities of all quantum mechanics . |