Example sentences of "[modal v] have [vb pp] [adv prt] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should 've tidied up a bit — that would 've made Mr Jackson think I 'm grown up enough to look after myself , but it 's too late now . |
| 2 | My horse went down a couple of times when we were riding along a shallow river The hooves must 've turned up the mud at the bottom and I 'm sorry but no amount of expert preparation can help you keep cool when a 500lb horse goes down on you . |
| 3 | ‘ Surely someone should have checked out the complaints more carefully . ’ |
| 4 | For many people the saddest aspect was the selectors ' policy of playing Randall at number three ; every fan in the country could have told them that he should have batted down the order and that exposing him so early was almost certain to fail . |
| 5 | 4–4 They were unaware that they should have filled in a Schedule for Erection of New Charges but now did so . |
| 6 | The believe planners should have turned down the application . |
| 7 | But there is little civic pride in Maan that its actions should have set off the train of events . |
| 8 | By now you should have picked up the signs directing you back to the Cat & Fiddle . |
| 9 | The speed of descent must have cut down the exposure to any residual gas since he felt none of the earlier weirdness as he approached the still sealed engine room door . |
| 10 | The water really is n't that hot , usually , but my other one was fiddling with the boiler earlier — he must have turned up the thermostat . |
| 11 | In her haste to get away , she must have bundled up the documents and ledgers that she had been working on and brought them back with her . |
| 12 | He must have put up a bit of a struggle , but they were a persuasive bunch , those women , and the two nans in alliance were practically irresistible . |
| 13 | We thought the bumpy flight must have brought on a bout of air-sickness , but it was not so . |
| 14 | The trio were modifying the trolley with implements they must have brought in the pockets of the golf-bags . |
| 15 | I think I must have picked up a virus . |
| 16 | Next week came , and we never got that half hour , so it must have added up a lot , all throughout the year . |
| 17 | Hopefully he 'll have calmed down a bit ! |
| 18 | By then I 'll have worked out a plan to get us back behind our own lines . ’ |
| 19 | I 'll have dried out a bit by the time I get to the cottage , and I do n't really want to go all the way back to the farm after I 've come this far . ’ |
| 20 | This might have shored up the dollar for a time had the US balance of payments improved as expected . |
| 21 | Moisture from the inflated covers might have gingered up the pitch somewhat for the third day , and with the ball still quite new , England 's bowlers were clearly interested in a breakthrough . |
| 22 | He snatched it up instinctively , as his ancestors might have snatched up a stone when faced with a marauding tiger . |
| 23 | Yet it does not occur to them that God might have brought about the defeat as an act of judgement upon them , and unlike Joshua and the elders in the story of Ai in Joshua 7 , they do not bother to turn to God to discover his mind . |
| 24 | An alternative explanation for Abu Nidal involvement was the suggestion that his group might have carried out the killings on behalf of the Iraqi regime ; this version depended on the suggestion that Abu Iyad , while publicly backing the PLO 's pro-Iraqi line , was expressing reservations about it to Arafat in private . |
| 25 | Or in North Africa , having left the 11th Field Regiment , he might have sat out the rest of the war in luxury , gaining rank through time and , come the Peace , have been a live major instead of a dead lieutenant . |
| 26 | She might have quietened down a bit by now , but you know what she 's like . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ A week or so after I got back it was still there so I went to a doctor and said I might have picked up a parasite . |
| 28 | Folly felt an urge to wash , as if the words had been printed in dark , inky type in the headline of a tabloid newspaper and her hands might have picked up the stain . |
| 29 | She might have taken on a job as a waitress for the summer , but she was damned if she was going to let people treat her like a mindless robot because of it . |
| 30 | Whatever yous want , it 's up to yous , if yous want your shoes today I 'll get them but I was thinking if we 'd 've went down the town today |