Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may need to watch him at first , so that you can clean and dress any grazes or cuts immediately . |
| 2 | I should 've ended it before that . |
| 3 | He was surprised that the doctor should seek to draw him into such boldness with one who was of the other sex , and the daughter of a friend . |
| 4 | He must need to know it for other reasons . |
| 5 | I should like to remind you of five background factors that are relevant to the training course we propose . |
| 6 | And how strange it was that , after all these months of resolutely not thinking about her old life in the States , she should begin to remember it with such pleasure ! |
| 7 | Should have made it with that . |
| 8 | Perhaps the most audacious thing about this exhibition is that the British Museum should have countenanced it at all . |
| 9 | It could and should have led him to great opportunities . |
| 10 | That John should have kissed her like that — in the way she had quite often seen boys kiss girls on their way home- and that she should not have minded , apart from the slight awkwardness of the people surging around them , would have seemed incredible to her a few months ago . |
| 11 | Over the two matches we were every bit as good as Liverpool and , if we 're honest , we know we should have beaten them on both occasions . |
| 12 | Furthermore , since I disagree with the view of the Divisional Court on this point in Ex parte Handscomb , but the Home Secretary was obliged for the time being to follow it , there is little logic in saying that he should have extended it to mandatory cases . |
| 13 | Marx 's recognition of the specificity of motives under capitalism should have alerted us to this problem . |
| 14 | You should have phoned me at ten o'clock , I would have picked you up . |
| 15 | ‘ The adrenalin was pumping and my experience should have stood me in good stead . |
| 16 | ‘ The adrenalin was pumping and my experience should have stood me in good stead . |
| 17 | It is remarkable that mental qualities that were selected for these purposes should have stood us in such good stead in the very different circumstances of the present day . |
| 18 | I 'm very sorry , ’ said Breeze sedately , ‘ that you should have seen me in that cowardly moment . ’ |
| 19 | I should have done it at first ; I could have paid it then . |
| 20 | ‘ I should have asked you for more , ’ said Nubenehem . |
| 21 | Why he should have dangled it for three months before an undistinguished ex-Chancellor of another party who did not even possess a seat in Parliament defies explanation . |
| 22 | Now , we should have left it at that , but we were too drunk to run , whilst the clerks were sober and quick-witted . |
| 23 | PLAYER : ( Acknowledging the description with a sweep of his hat , bowing : sadly ) You should have caught us in better times . |
| 24 | All in all , it is in no way surprising that Nietzsche should have put them to one side soon after writing them at the turn of the year . |
| 25 | ‘ Or they should have sold you to some terrible household where you 'd have been treated like a dog . |
| 26 | It turned out that she did n't realise they were down , but thinks she must have pushed them into that position when dropping the ribber . |
| 27 | Some memory must have stabbed him at that moment . |
| 28 | You must have seen her with one of them . |
| 29 | She must have seen it on some of the murdered woman 's belongings when you first entered the priory but she probably could not place it immediately . |
| 30 | I thought he must have left it in that place round the point , Halfway House . |