Example sentences of "[modal v] have [verb] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 now you ha you must 've converted to a unit linked policy by continuing after the period you
2 Bill thought I 'd died on him the other night cos I was , you know , me breathing and everything , and then all of a sudden I must 've relaxed for a bit and not needed to breathe and he give me a shock he says God I thought you were dead .
3 It is ironic that Holmes 's acceptance of the meritocratic possibilities of democratisation should have led to an Act which allowed for the creation of the comprehensive school — but in fact the ideology he shared with other administrators was one that could embrace the comprehensive , which was , at times , argued in the context of a more successful way of providing a selective education .
4 Gunn argues that Nina should have gone through a second , refurbishing phase , to bring it in line with the German accelerator , Desy .
5 He should have gone for a walk on the Downs or gone shopping in the town for antiques , or spent the morning browsing in bookshops .
6 ‘ If they thought the children were in danger they should have gone for a care order in the first place , ’ Levy said .
7 Overturning this residence order the Appeal Court was clear Nottinghamshire SSD should have used the Act 's public law provisions from the outset — it should have gone for a care order or a supervision order , enabling social workers to oversee the children 's welfare .
8 Erm and I I was n't feeling on top form and er looking back , I perhaps should have gone to a doctor then .
9 Maybe they should have collaborated on a book , instead of writing separate accounts .
10 I find it astonishing that , in less than a year since proposals on these lines by Robert Jackson , the higher education minister , were leaked , the majority of university vice-chancellors should have moved to a position whereby they are actively pursuing the option of charging students the full cost of their courses .
11 Gorbachev paid warm tribute to Dubcek , saying his Czechoslovak reforms should have served as a model to the Communist world .
12 This should have served as an encouragement to the authorities to develop this important aspect of community care .
13 The prosecution should have applied to a judge of the Central Criminal Court to revoke bail and then if bail was granted again , to impose the condition of medical examination required by the statute .
14 Before LGCM took up its office in the tower of St Botolph 's , Malcolm Johnson should have applied for a faculty .
15 At a more mature stage , the increase in sales volume should have resulted in a decline in investment intensity , while profit and ROI will increase if the investment is successful .
16 The Minister should have started with an agreement on terms and conditions relating to employment protection and dealt with the other aspects afterwards .
17 And by 1994 , work should have started on a development which will transform the bus station site .
18 It was inevitable therefore that she should have looked for a career in motor racing — at least that was what she told herself .
19 They should have looked for a two-bedded , well-equipped flat in Norwich or in a convenient village close to the shops and post office , and to a church , of course .
20 We should have knocked in a couple of goals and killed off the game . ’
21 They are not quite what I should have expected from a man like Serafin .
22 An exasperated Josh Gifford claimed — with much justification — that ‘ I should have won by a furlong .
23 Mind you Oxford should have won by an avalanche .
24 It might be supposed , however , that Francis Grant , as a newcomer to military life , should have entered as an ensign rather than as second-in-command of the company in question .
25 The ‘ Far Eastern ’ memorandum was a superb and elegant paper even though , in its abstract idealizations of how colonialism should have come to an end , it sounded rather like a secular Sermon on the Mount .
26 ‘ You know who we should have had as a father , Annie .
27 A pretty girl and one that should be with a man , not a girl who should have sat beside a solicitor in a High Street divorce court .
28 It is ironic that this should have happened under a Government so strongly committed to decentralisation , privatisation and the reduction of the role of the state .
29 It annoyed her intensely that she should have thought for a moment that the dreadful feeling she 'd experienced when he 'd told her he had an engagement was jealousy .
30 Well , this old bell must have fallen off a ship , or perhaps it got washed out here in a flood .
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