Example sentences of "[modal v] have [vb pp] the [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | No bu I 'm sorry , the other thing I 'm sorry I should have said the other thing I 'm going on is when things were last done , |
| 2 | I should have flung the damned thing out of his open door so that it would bounce down the mountainside up which the road was climbing . |
| 3 | While America goes crazy over its new President elect , CARTER USM are busy making themselves the next most popular thing with the inhabitants of that wacky continent and really should have done the decent thing and put themselves up for election . |
| 4 | TO SACK Norman Lamont now , eight months after he should have done the honourable thing for failing to keep sterling within Europe 's exchange-rate mechanism , would smack of prime-ministerial panic and cheap populism . |
| 5 | He should have left the bloody things off because they 're gon na have to take them off if they have their carpets down and might have to have something planed off them or something might n't they ? |
| 6 | but you should have got the same thing from them . |
| 7 | If one 's opponent has anti-tank weapons I should have thought the last thing to send in would be tanks . |
| 8 | He must have made the whole thing up from start to finish . |
| 9 | ‘ But Ivy has turned out to be so good for me I must have done the right thing . |
| 10 | His hands relaxed from their tight grip on the steering-wheel ; she must have said the right thing for once . |
| 11 | ‘ Sure there 's plenty of people must have said the same thing after a visit from you , love . |
| 12 | I believe she was very young — just a little thing — but it must have seemed the best thing to do in the circumstances . |
| 13 | You 'll have inherited the other thing , too . |
| 14 | If he was in her place , he might have done the same thing . |
| 15 | She could 've had the same thing free on the National Health ! |
| 16 | He 's been there for weeks and I could have done the whole thing in a couple of days . |
| 17 | With Oveissi we could have ended the whole thing . |
| 18 | Anger flared , for surely they could have dressed the poor thing better . |
| 19 | He could have told the whole thing against himself as a joke . |
| 20 | ‘ Any one person could have brought the whole thing to an end on the spot . ’ |
| 21 | If I had n't been so besotted and obsessed to the point of madness I 'd have called the whole thing off ! ’ |
| 22 | Idly I wonder if she 'd have done the same thing had the play been Shakespearean : ‘ Now is the winter of our discontent … but leaving aside discontent for the moment I want you all to put your hands together for good old birthday boy Barry in Box B. All together now , Happy Birthday to you … ’ |
| 23 | But I mean that yesterday afternoon you 'd have thought the bloody things were in here would n't |
| 24 | ‘ I 'd have thought the same thing would apply to you , ’ she said , evading a direct answer . |
| 25 | In fact , if it had n't been an important point of principle not to let the damn impertinent man get away with his nauseating behaviour , she 'd have let the whole thing drop . |
| 26 | We compare what we are seeing with what we know , to see if there is enough resemblance for us to treat the new thing in the same way as we would have treated the known thing . |
| 27 | Where which probably the parents when I was doing midwifery would have said the same thing but there was nothing they could do about it . |
| 28 | I would like to think that if Freud were alive today , he would have said the same thing , of course when Freud wrote this book in nineteen twenty one er there was no such thing as group psychotherapy it had n't been invented yet , it was to become very much after World War Two but partly existed before and perhaps it 's past its peak now , but erm it did become very much a after World War Two and the point I made was and this is really wh wh what Heather ha h has just said , that if you take Freud 's book on , on group seriously , how can you do group psychoanalysis ? |
| 29 | Whether he would have done the right thing by her — as they said in those days — is fruitless speculation : he was never told of the need . |
| 30 | The stories always came out well in the end , and if one of the officers was a coward or incompetent , you could be sure that by the end of the story he would have done the decent thing and charged the machine gun nest singlehanded , getting killed in the process . |