Example sentences of "he [modal v] have [verb] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He may have realised earlier than most of us that the King was in the long run unfitted to be King . |
| 2 | Cos he thinks he should have done better than that and he 's right he should of done better . |
| 3 | You could say that with all the service Deane gets from the midfield he should have scored more than two ( as I say Lee 's got 4 & he gets hardly any service ! ) . |
| 4 | Shortly afterwards he went missing in the cauldron of the Ruhr , I only wanted to tell him he should have got more than 30 bob a piece for them . |
| 5 | And he should have known better than to have his secretary type it . |
| 6 | He should have known better than to think Ben would not ask that question . |
| 7 | He should have known better than agree to support a magistrate whose hatred of gipsies was so well known . |
| 8 | ( Stone 1988 : 38 ) ( " When Agamemnon does the unthinkable , i.e. brings his concubine home , something which he should have known better than to do … " ) |
| 9 | ( implies " he should have known better than to … " ) |
| 10 | ( The Times , 13 June 1974 : 25.4 ; in Erdmann 1982 : 104 ) ( " Mr Benn has dared do something he should have known better than to do , given Prime Minister Wilson 's present hostility towards any statement that might upset private industry . " ) |
| 11 | He had only one more room to do , he said , and he should have finished long before this but he 'd been badly delayed in the car on the other side of the dining car , which he had in his care also . |
| 12 | He wrote a poem about his friend Francis Thompson , and in it there are many echoes of his own sad youth in which he must have wondered often if his mind would flower too late for good . |
| 13 | He must have tried hard because soon afterwards there was a report of an engagement . |
| 14 | He 's had a letter from Hereford General Hospital telling him he 'll have to wait again because the hospital has run out of money . |
| 15 | Aye , that 's what he might have said like before he could fax it up . |
| 16 | The teller then offered to accept their count , but the Zuwaya objected that he might have stolen more than a hundred votes . |
| 17 | It is doubtful whether , given his premises and the situation in which he found himself , he could have done more than convey the expression of widespread discontent and indicate at the same time that something had changed in the Roman governing class . |
| 18 | They would have endured the worst torment he could have devised rather than betray Resenence Jeopardy . |
| 19 | Tony Yates , manager of Club Lucys , said he first heard he would have to close early when officers called at the club at 11.20pm on Saturday . |
| 20 | He would have stripped completely while she watched . |
| 21 | ‘ He would have gone more than five thou . ’ |
| 22 | In this first contribution , he does n't talk about ‘ being fourteen or older ’ or ‘ Edinburgh ’ , but he does talk about ‘ starting work as a bricklayer ’ ( when I was fourteen or older , in Edinburgh ) and , as a co-operative conversationalist , he would have to state explicitly if the information ‘ being fourteen or older , in Edinburgh ’ was not applicable . |
| 23 | But sometimes the expenditure will result in the plaintiff acquiring an asset of a type that he would have required even if he had not been disabled , although he would not have required one with the special attributes of the asset in question . |
| 24 | She moved easily towards him , and he would have backed away but for the stone wall against his shoulders . |
| 25 | Perhaps he would have fared better if he pleaded one of the defences in section 24 ( see paragraphs 16–22 to 16–25 below ) . |
| 26 | But if , as seems increasingly likely , Mr Clinton will soon tell Congress and the public that American fighting men will have to be sent to Bosnia , he will have to do better than say that he has thought things over carefully . |