Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 You should 've heard the different birds .
2 Doo I must 've crossed every fucking road
3 He must 've broken the other arm because the next day he had both arms in plaster .
4 You must 've got an extra sheet than me because one of the things I was moaning about this morning erm , maybe you 've got a different
5 ‘ All it tells us is he must 've had a foreign accent for them to give him a name like that .
6 Beautiful piece , one of the earliest I 've seen — but he must 've had a hard head , ‘ coz it broke .
7 I thought Clarke should have scored a second goal when he went through . ’
8 On a good pitch and with a fast outfield , Indian should have made a better fist of their innings , but only Srikkanth ( who fell to an outstanding catch by Peter Taylor at mid-off ) passed 20 as Australia 's allrounders ran through the order .
9 Secondly , we should have made a moral commitment to the single currency .
10 The press-gang gave politicians an effective method of giving a very real service to the parties more directly concerned , and it was one which should have created a lasting sense of obligation , for life before the mast in one of His Majesty 's ships was not likely to be easily forgotten .
11 Prima facie , the development of a capital-goods sector should have created a vested interest in innovation in the consumer-goods industries , as well as a major new outlet for independent inventors of production machinery .
12 But Knox , who was the most brilliant orator of his generation at Oxford — star of the Union , wit , punster in tongues ancient and modern — had left Oxford before the end of the First World War to become a Roman Catholic , and after his return there as chaplain to the Catholics , it was perhaps understandable that he should have kept a low profile .
13 ‘ I should have kept a short rope on you and then you would never have escaped me . ’
14 ‘ Ye should have poured a whole bottle of lysol down it before me . ’
15 Perhaps I should have formed a better plan ; perhaps I should have made instead for the Villa Diodati , to see if I could secure any friends and allies there .
16 In retrospect , for example , many Gaullists concluded that he should have formed a Gaullist movement of the kind that he formed , too late , in 1947 — a movement that could have channelled popular adulation into usable political support .
17 Seaman should have saved the first goal , but did make a two world class saves against Berkamp and Rikaard .
18 Applicants seeking credits for areas of study , for Sections of the certificate level areas C1 or C2 , or for elements from within an area of study at diploma level must submit their application to the HCIMA and should have received a favourable decision prior to enrolment on a programme or area of study .
19 These included care of the mentally ill ( which then also included the elderly with mental disability ) — these categories which should have received a bigger slice of the cake , actually received a smaller percentage of health board funding during the funding period from 1981–82 to 1985–86 .
20 All ( 1991 ) Group members should have received a free copy .
21 By early next week each of the 400 members of the Association of Futures Brokers and Dealers , the self-regulatory organisation for com modities , should have received the latest proposal from the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission for ending the wrangle over London firms doing business for American clients .
22 ‘ You should have shut the stable door so the damn horse do n't bolt . ’
23 We regard it as almost unthinkable that Parliament should have authorised the Serious Fraud Office to continue the exercise of inquisitorial powers against the accused not merely after he had been charged but also ( as Mr. Pleming accepts and asserts ) throughout his trial .
24 A secure keyboard technique is essential , and all students , even those for whom piano is second instrument , should have reached a standard equivalent to Grade VII of the Associated Board examinations .
25 Admission procedures for the BMus in Musical Technology are also noted in the Admissions section : students should have reached a standard equivalent to Grade VII of the Associated Board examinations in any recognised instrument .
26 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 ,
27 Probably should have gone the other way into town but
28 It is in accordance with such optimism that Euripides should have turned the suffering hero of earlier tragedy into a dialectician and the transcendental justice of Aeschylus into the " poetic justice " dispensed by the deus ex machina who appears at the end of so many of his plays .
29 She should have accepted a comfortable change for the better .
30 Accordingly he submitted that if the jury accepted that the first appellant had murdered the deceased , then it necessarily followed that they should have acquitted the second appellant .
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