Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [vb pp] a [noun] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Erm the rise was also the cue to check on erm pension increase and I felt you should 've asked a little bit more about the life cover , most companies do have arrangements for quite large sums of money to be paid out to dependants , this will have an impact on life cover planning in the future .
2 I should 've got a day return , it would n't , it 'll been cheaper .
3 I think she should have played a Tour Event before an exhibition event , but then again it would n't be the first time she has n't turned up for a Tour Event would it ?
4 They claim he should have faced a Crown Court judge for causing death by reckless driving .
5 Southampton should have registered a club record seventh successive League win but failed to turn their general superiority into goals .
6 In addition , at least a third of the staff should have obtained a food handlers certificate .
7 It should have sent a search program down the cable first .
8 If the origin of life were a probable event by ordinary human standards , then a substantial number of planets within radio range should have developed a radio technology long enough ago ( bearing in mind that radio waves travel at 186,000 miles per second ) for us to have picked up at least one transmission during the decades that we have been equipped to do so .
9 ( He should have won a Nobel Prize for general relativity , but the idea that space and time were curved was still regarded as too speculative and controversial , so they gave him a prize for the photoelectric effect instead — ; not that it was not worth the prize on its own account . )
10 According to Levy and Reid the latter should have shown a LVF superiority .
11 Everyone with shares should have had a payment notice saying how much they owe .
12 She should have brought a wine jug from the hall , she chided herself as her breathing steadied .
13 They should have got a self certificate and then sent it on to Road for you .
14 They should have got a self certificate and then sent it on to Road for you .
15 His bone-structure showed strength , yet his mouth had a masculine sensuality that should have carried a health warning .
16 Unix Labs ' lawyers claim that the judge came to an incorrect conclusion of law based on an incorrect understanding of the facts over whether 32V Unix should have carried a copyright notice or not .
17 USL claims the judge came to an incorrect conclusion of law based on an incorrect understanding of the facts over whether 32V Unix should have carried a copyright notice or not .
18 ‘ You should have taken a sleeping pill . ’
19 If you did n't like what was happening , you should have taken a curtain call and gone home , ’ he said coldly , totally without pity .
20 ‘ You should have used a spirit level . ’
21 Above all , the Gracious Speech should have included a crime prevention Bill .
22 I must have heard a car door slam , or something . ’
23 Lomax must have scored a lung shot , Curtis observed clinically .
24 ‘ Huh ! ’ he grunted , and , she swiftly realised , must have done a lightning analysis of what she had said , because in his next breath he was commenting aggressively , ‘ So you 've definitely decided to throw Travis over ? ’
25 So I had a market cornered and good access to American trips because I used to like writing about that , even though on the early stuff I must have affected a punk rock stance long after it was all over . ’
26 The number of kings who came to grief in the fifth century is staggeringly high , and this must have had a deterrent effect on kings who contemplated taking initiatives .
27 During the 1590s Evesham must have had a London workshop .
28 I must have had a death wish choosing that .
29 They must have got a piggy bank somewhere .
30 She was a very tall and very fair and dazzlingly beautiful creature whose skin was goose-pimpled under the impact of McIllvanney 's air conditioning which was set to a level that might have made a penguin shiver .
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