Example sentences of "[modal v] have [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You should 've sent me to a decent school , ’ said Camille . |
| 2 | And erm I got down on my hands and knees I must 've done it for an hour |
| 3 | They are entitled to these benefits , they should have received them in the past , and they should have received them by law . |
| 4 | ‘ Someone should have shut you in a hospital for the criminally insane and thrown away the key . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I should have heeded it as a warning , though , querida , ’ he rasped throatily . |
| 6 | Charity should have recognised it as the calm before the storm , but she did n't . |
| 7 | That should have alerted me to the fact that Dr Tom Courtney was not as he seemed . |
| 8 | You should have phoned us at the Club . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I told them at half-time that Batty was an aggressive player who would challenge hard and that they should n't expect any less — maybe I should have warned them before the start . |
| 10 | ‘ I should have warned you about the crush . ’ |
| 11 | For it was not pure ocular seeing , or I should have seen her as a girl of the age which I have now reached . |
| 12 | You should have seen me in the dock , man . |
| 13 | Yes , they will go , but the government should do two things , and it should have done them in the White Paper announcement ; it should have said ‘ we are proposing to get rid of all advantages for company cars in tax terms and we are proposing to make sure that people pay by paying more road tax or more petrol costs if they have high gas-guzzling cars ’ . |
| 14 | But then we should have got we we sh We should have done it on the way there , but we forget . |
| 15 | ‘ What you put into the business , ’ Daisy said , ‘ you should have treated it as a loan and let me pay you back the capital . |
| 16 | yeah , we should have to put you on the book |
| 17 | I should have asked you into the house to dry it out ! ’ |
| 18 | Police team manager David Rees said : ‘ We should have switched him to a Saturday afternoon shift . |
| 19 | When we settled down we played some tremendous football and maybe should have sneaked it in the end . |
| 20 | It is ironic that reforms intended to increase efficiency by introducing market disciplines should have undermined them in the one sector in which they already existed . |
| 21 | Southend could and should have won it near the end when once again the Town defence got itself in a tangle … |
| 22 | Southend could and should have won it near the end when once again the Town defence got itself in a tangle … |
| 23 | His own fault , he should have left it to the river police who had more experience of that sort of thing , but he had felt responsible . |
| 24 | ‘ I saw you struggling with it ; you should have left it in the Range Rover — I would have lifted it out for you . ’ |
| 25 | He took the view that his agents , the defendants , should have told him of the Perots ' interest in both properties , being material information relating to his sale of Caliban . |
| 26 | Someone should have told me about the local MIND and the National Schizophrenia Fellowship and what they could offer . |
| 27 | ‘ You should have told me at the time ! ’ |
| 28 | I should have told you at the beginning . |
| 29 | Old Asshe had liked him , he had been certain , and should have welcomed him as a son-in-law ; but evidently no man in the world was to be permitted to fill that position . |
| 30 | Rich , the fact is , he should have put it in the |