Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Norwich will feel they should have scored as early as the second minute . |
| 2 | Although the therapist was probably correct in initially providing a chance for Pamela to express her worries to someone outside the family , she should have progressed as soon as possible to helping Pamela and her parents tackle together the problems surrounding their communication and lack of mutual trust . |
| 3 | They should have done much better as they dominated for long spells , but failed miserably in the art of scoring . |
| 4 | These policies should bear in mind principles such as that when children leave school they should have acquired as far as possible : |
| 5 | And another man , who should have known better even though he was from Southfields , had announced that Wimbledon was ‘ on the dull side . |
| 6 | But she should have got as far as London . |
| 7 | According to Tiw , the journey down to Moloch should have taken slightly less than two hours . |
| 8 | I should have thought more deeply before I agreed , but that 's not how fools charge in . |
| 9 | An example of the kind of executive pre-arrangement , which must have happened more often than we are told , is the way in which Demosthenes ( iv . |
| 10 | From time to time , and I think mainly to keep in touch , Aunt Janie would ring me to ask if I could come to the house to help with a small task , such as fixing the cellar door , hammering in a stray loose plank over the cistern and so on — although she must have known as well as I did how useless I was at such household chores . |
| 11 | Alone with Henrietta , the woman he came closest to loving , Minton must have confronted more forcibly than ever before the nature of his condition . |
| 12 | The problem is that the invitation must have come rather late as Carolyn recalls : ‘ I walked in about six o'clock and Diana went : ‘ Quick , quick I 've got to meet Charles in twenty minutes . ’ |
| 13 | Admittedly Ordovician graptolite zones must have lasted much longer than the ammonite zones of the Mesozoic , but nevertheless the time scale is still surprising . |
| 14 | It might have done considerably better than that . |
| 15 | The complex of disparate elements comprising academic English was always unstable , though they might have stayed together longer if it had not been for the demands of the academic environment . |
| 16 | His presidency , in other words , might have ended less ingloriously if he had been more like his successor in the White House . |
| 17 | The visitors might have replied almost immediately when Mark Stepney rounded the defence but put his shot wide . |
| 18 | Ekwall ( 1975 ) , citing Walker , notes that [ h ] -loss might have occurred as early as 1791 ; Brunner ( 1963 : 5 ) dismisses early ME spelling evidence with the remark that Anglo-Norman scribes were prone to use initial h ‘ incorrectly ’ . |
| 19 | Cutting that over the numbers had me down and stopped well before the first intersection , a distance of around 400 metres , and I could have done much better if I 'd heaved on the brakes , which are single Goodyear discs with excellent stopping power . |
| 20 | It was doubtful if those two men could have done much worse than he was doing now ! |
| 21 | The car , which could have raced as early as May , will be fully prepared for action with Prost behind the wheel next season . |
| 22 | Also ‘ tried on ’ was encroaching on and hedging in parcels of common land and none could have offended more often than one Mephibosheth White . |
| 23 | His Dad kept it hanging on a nail in the shed and he 'd have noticed right away if it was missing . |
| 24 | ‘ I do n't suppose I 'd have done so well if Maggie had been in charge ’ he was a Minister in the Wilson government . |
| 25 | Over all , you 'd have fared much better than keeping your money in a bank or building society . |
| 26 | Catalogues come out early — you may have ordered as early as the Chelsea Flower Show in May — and although you know that the plants will not arrive before the back end of October at the earliest , more likely into November , you will have to plan where the temporary reception centre will be placed . |
| 27 | The implications of the new technological revolution go far beyond the silicon chip and its offspring , a message that may have penetrated as far as Kenneth Baker , Britain 's Minister for Information Technology . |
| 28 | Indeed , ’ Corbett stirred , staring behind the nun into the mist , ‘ they may have slept more deeply than they ever intended . |
| 29 | Managers in their late forties begin to see that they are no longer the up-and-coming stars — indeed they may have come as far as they are going to go . |
| 30 | Son batted at least as well as Miandad and Mujtaba , and lasted longer than Malcolm or Ramiz , but it has to be admitted that with a fifth day available , his team would have lost as surely as England did . |