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

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No	Sentence
1	I should have said that these houses are all close to the road , perhaps a few paces from the pavement .
2	reporting accountants should have to confirm that all firms have undertaken an ‘ expense of time ’ calculation and budget for the following year ;
3	Leith afterwards supposed she should have realised that that state of affairs could not go on indefinitely without someone getting hurt .
4	In accordance with section 67 the item was properly included in the bill but the bill should have stated that this item had not yet been paid .
5	They did not share the critics ' dismay that bumptious Mr Spielberg should have borrowed that nice Mr Barrie 's little boy , allowed him to grow up as an awful Dad , and then sent him back to learn a few lessons in Captain Hook 's theme-park paradise .
6	" Perhaps I should have let that precious mother of yours catch you sneaking back into the house . "
7	As he says to one of their tools : When Buckingham presents his credentials for deceiving the London citizens it is in the same theatrical-Machiavellian terms as Richard : But Buckingham himself is deceived , as we realized long ago in the flurry of insincere praise that Richard heaped upon him : Buckingham should have known that such effusiveness from a hypocrite can only bode ill .
8	Mr Justice Brooke ruled that Northumberland health authority should have specified that three staff were necessary .
9	I should have thought that that lesson was clear .
10	I should have thought that good sense would dictate that someone who opposes every measure begins to lose credibility .
11	I should have thought that hon. Members would have got behind the work of the regulators , who are standing up for the interests of the customer .
12	Swindon Town 's run of success nearly came to a stop at Luton on Wednesday night … you must have heard that favourite football cliche about there never being an easy game … it was one of those for Town … they missed Glenn Hoddle 's influence and never settled against a Luton side that need the points just as badly to save themselves from relegation …
13	She must have sensed that one day I would be leaving her again , and that nearly broke my heart , knowing the sadness she must feel all too well in my experiences with lovers who never stayed long but left me feeling as if part of me had been torn from my body .
14	I must have said that several times already because Ma fixed me with a glittering stare and exclaimed , ‘ If you say that word once more , Andrew , just once more , I 'll send you to the Science Museum again … with Annabel . ’
15	There was no evidence that the defendants were aware of the existence of those whom their conduct offended , although the court said that there was evidence from which the magistrates were entitled to infer that the appellants ‘ must have known that other people would be likely to be present . ’
16	But , surely , he must have known that German sprint star Katrin Krabbe was banned after being positively tested for Clenbuterol ?
17	When the government broke in , broke the link between the R P I and the old age pension , they must have known that this kind of rise would not be paid by our pensioners .
18	The compilers of the BMA code of practice for the safe use and disposal of sharps must have thought that many practitioners would be unable to comply with universal precautions because the code suggested that gloving decreased manual dexterity .
19	Bulbs , er probably not cos I think I 'll have to do while you 're at school cos daddy tells me it 's gon na rain this afternoon , I 'll have to do that this morning , pity that .
20	However , despite this evidence , prosecution would have been political suicide since the defendants might have argued that civil servants and certain government ministers knew of the oil sanctions-busting arrangements and therefore the company considered their actions , although technically illegal , were informally condoned by governmental officials .
21	It is too much to say that ‘ ministers , uncertain about everything else , had at times found a refuge in social righteousness ’ and that ‘ Bunyan … might have said that social righteousness was his old village of Morality transformed , like Manchester , to a town , by the industrial revolution ’ .
22	For example , in Price ( 1989 ) 90 Cr App R 409 ( CA ) , such an instruction is necessary only where the accused might have thought that ordinary people would regard his conduct as honest .
23	One might have thought that these trends would not present major difficulties since one apparent virtue of the British constitution was its flexibility .
24	One might have thought that these divisions would at least cease to operate in church , but there too Kerr advocates a rigid hierarchy : ‘ The best of all systems of arrangement is to place the family and their guests in front , strangers of position next behind them , and the upper and lower servants , together with strangers of their classes respectively , in successive order . ’
25	We decided to begin our search in the deep midwaters on the basis of the results mentioned above , even though , at first sight , biological considerations might have suggested that inshore waters were more promising .
26	From a reading of their own literature , librarians and information scientists might have expected that one area where use of IT would definitely have been recognised to be giving such an advantage to its users is that of the retrieval of publicly available information online .
27	In any case , wings which could have lifted that huge body would have been far too cumbersome when diving .
28	Or they could have sold that controlling interest to someone else — heaven help us !
29	‘ You know , if anyone had asked me — and no one did , mind you — I 'd have said that several people had a reason to kill Newley .
30	‘ They certainly seemed to be enjoying themselves , ’ she said ; ‘ you 'd have thought that young man Danny had just won a Grand Prix instead of driving round a dodgem track . ’

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