Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] [verb] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lennox should have scored in the 75th minute when McLaughlin 's long-range strike was pushed onto the post by O'Shea , but with an open goal in front of him , Lennox sliced his shot into the side netting . |
| 2 | Les Ferdinand should have scored in the 16th minute when he escaped Shaun Teale and side-stepped goalkeeper Nigel Spink but the Rangers striker allowed Steve Staunton to get back and make two retrieving tackles in front of a gaping net . |
| 3 | I think we should have said at the first the very first lesson , they just ploughed straight into did n't they ? |
| 4 | I said well I said that was the twenty first of it should have gone on the eleventh see but it did n't it go twenty first . |
| 5 | I should have complained about the first case , but I was inexperienced then . |
| 6 | Since then I have done something I should have done in the first place : found a gap in the rushes only ten yards downstream where I can heave into the fish without pulling them into more weed . |
| 7 | So I did what I should have done in the first place , I put the wire hangers and small weights on the edges . |
| 8 | ‘ Probably what I should have done in the first place . |
| 9 | The view of the American Museum of Natural History , led by the late Don Rosen , is that the dipnois should have evolved into the first tetrapods , or four-legged land-based animals . |
| 10 | He should have known from the first that the chasm which lay between them would not be so easy to cross . |
| 11 | The kitchen is particularly fascinating with its full array of cooking equipment looking much as it must have done in the 18th Century . |
| 12 | My roots and my family 's have gone deeply into the fields and woods which the General must have owned in the 18th Century . ’ |
| 13 | But crisis — particularly one which puts the USSR 's world position at risk — is something that the West should wish to avoid in the first place . |
| 14 | The rate of disconnections fell by nearly 50% , and should continue to fall over the next six months . |
| 15 | Besides , say the Liberal Club 's supporters , Civic Forum has a responsibility to carry out its programme and must continue to function until the next general election , in less than two years ' time . |
| 16 | Trainee consultants need to appreciate that the procedure of informing an interested school of the different structures that have been found to work well in different settings , and of inviting the school to decide which they might wish to develop in the first instance , is in itself an important part of preparing a supportive climate . |
| 17 | Well , he 'll have to see about the next time Kyle cos he was |
| 18 | ‘ We 'll have to jump from the first floor , ’ said Cardiff . |
| 19 | Well I 'll have to stay for the next two years unless we go back to Lincoln . |
| 20 | The Dinosaur guitar influence is maybe too apparent and they might have to wait until the next one before breaking out of the indie ghetto . |
| 21 | The Dinosaur guitar influence is maybe too apparent and they might have to wait until the next one before breaking out of the indie ghetto . |
| 22 | Voeller might have scored in the 24th minute had it not been for Andy Goram 's fine save from a powerful 20-yard shot , but seven minutes later he set up Marseille 's opener . |
| 23 | Today , we 're concentrating on the videos you might have bought in the last 12 months . |
| 24 | As a result of central government policies , Islington social services suffered 8 per cent cuts in 1987/8 and all departments were asked to produce proposals for cuts of up to a further 25 per cent which they might have to achieve over the next two years . |
| 25 | Predictably the latter stages were nervous and tense for Luton and the visitors might have levelled in the 73rd minute . |
| 26 | Do you think that that is a hint that perhaps the high litre cars — that is the four litre efforts and er the company cars might get taxed at the next budget round ? |
| 27 | ‘ If you do n't know what you 'd choose to do on the last day of your life , you do n't know what 's really important to you . |
| 28 | What I 'd like to do for the next twenty minutes of the er of the seminar is talk about client server today . |
| 29 | If you 'd like to go into the next room , please . |
| 30 | The partners could then decide to sell it and divide the cash or they could decide to continue to the next stage of association ( called al-nusf , ‘ halves ’ ) . |