Example sentences of "[modal v] have [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 I should 've learnt everything by the time I was thirty , not wait until I was in me forties .
2 They are entitled to these benefits , they should have received them in the past , and they should have received them by law .
3 He should have placed himself in the middle between Laura and Maggie he thought .
4 Charity should have recognised it as the calm before the storm , but she did n't .
5 That should have alerted me to the fact that Dr Tom Courtney was not as he seemed .
6 You should have phoned us at the Club . ’
7 It is a consideration which I should have applied myself to the assessment of general damages to favour this plaintiff .
8 ‘ 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 .
9 ‘ I should have warned you about the crush . ’
10 You should have seen me in the dock , man .
11 We should have done something like the RAND health insurance experiment .
12 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 ’ .
13 But then we should have got we we sh We should have done it on the way there , but we forget .
14 yeah , we should have to put you on the book
15 I should have asked you into the house to dry it out ! ’
16 When we settled down we played some tremendous football and maybe should have sneaked it in the end .
17 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 .
18 Dawn Allenby , a masochist if ever there was one , should have prostrated herself at the feet of Desmond Fairchild , a sadist in a trilby hat worn with the brim turned up all the way round like vaudeville comic .
19 Southend could and should have won it near the end when once again the Town defence got itself in a tangle …
20 Southend could and should have won it near the end when once again the Town defence got itself in a tangle …
21 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 .
22 ‘ I saw you struggling with it ; you should have left it in the Range Rover — I would have lifted it out for you . ’
23 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 .
24 Someone should have told me about the local MIND and the National Schizophrenia Fellowship and what they could offer .
25 ‘ You should have told me at the time ! ’
26 I should have told you at the beginning .
27 Rich , the fact is , he should have put it in the
28 No Should have had one in the bedroom last night with next door upstairs .
29 GUIL : But if he gave it to me there 's no reason why you should have had it in the first place , in which case I do n't see what all the fuss is about you not having it .
30 By then , the techniques of study should have soaked you in the subjects you are studying .
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