Example sentences of "[modal v] have [vb pp] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Gunn argues that Nina should have gone through a second , refurbishing phase , to bring it in line with the German accelerator , Desy . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | ‘ If they thought the children were in danger they should have gone for a care order in the first place , ’ Levy said . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | Meiko Scientific Plc , Bristol has been getting a bit of stick in the US press following its sale of one of its massively parallel systems to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under a $15m agreement : complainants say the order should have gone to a US firm and not to a UK one ; Meiko repudiates ‘ the damaging impressions ’ created in a New York Times story on the order , saying that it was consistent with US national security policies and procedures with support provided by cleared US citizens ; it bridles at the suggestion that the machine is unproven , pointing to over 400 installations , and says the Israeli transaction was in compliance with both US and British export regulations and that this was confirmed by the British Embassy in Washington . |
6 | Erm and I I was n't feeling on top form and er looking back , I perhaps should have gone to a doctor then . |
7 | Maybe they should have collaborated on a book , instead of writing separate accounts . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | Gorbachev paid warm tribute to Dubcek , saying his Czechoslovak reforms should have served as a model to the Communist world . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | Before LGCM took up its office in the tower of St Botolph 's , Malcolm Johnson should have applied for a faculty . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | And by 1994 , work should have started on a development which will transform the bus station site . |
14 | It was inevitable therefore that she should have looked for a career in motor racing — at least that was what she told herself . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | We should have knocked in a couple of goals and killed off the game . ’ |
17 | They are not quite what I should have expected from a man like Serafin . |
18 | An exasperated Josh Gifford claimed — with much justification — that ‘ I should have won by a furlong . |
19 | ‘ He should have put on a pair of tights and joined his daddy in front of the fairy-lights . ’ |
20 | ‘ You know who we should have had as a father , Annie . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | Well , this old bell must have fallen off a ship , or perhaps it got washed out here in a flood . |
25 | The Telegraph commented : ‘ As Sir Alf [ pictured ] watched his team begin their first game together since last November he must have felt like a yachtsman who takes the winter covers off his boat , eases it into the water and finds it has sprung leaks fore , aft and midships . ’ |
26 | Associates of the Institute must have served in a solicitor 's office for three years and have passed four examination papers in law and Fellows must be over 25 , have served eight years in a solicitor 's office and have passed a further three examinations from a list of subjects offered by the Institute . |
27 | Soon after he came to power he personally led an expedition against the Shanqalla negroes on the Sudan border , and my father affirmed that the slaughter there must have satisfied for a time even his craving for blood . |
28 | The same waves reached Hawaii in the central Pacific less than 5 hours later and must have travelled at a speed of 740 km per hour . |
29 | That must have gone on a lot |
30 | Ralph and Bernie must have gone to a lot of trouble to set him up . |