Example sentences of "you [modal v] have [vb pp] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Um if you go back to the eighteenth century , early nineteenth century , you find that um I think it was at er Winchester possibly , er some some of you may have heard of this in in History or something , er there was an uprising at Winchester school and the Army had to be called in to quell the rioting pupils because they were rebelling against the harsh conditions . |
| 2 | Sometimes the similarity is hinted at in the question itself ; for example , you may have looked at another passage involving characterisation and this will guide you in looking at this one . |
| 3 | It did n't stop them getting into very severe financial difficulties , and you may have read about this in recent times , it , there 's a proposal that the Science and Engineering Research Council may be so short of funds it may close the laboratory down . |
| 4 | ‘ You ought to have thought of that before you drove into my car . |
| 5 | You must have put in many , many hours of practice to attain your current level of technique … |
| 6 | ‘ You must have come across some real characters on this train , ’ I suggest . |
| 7 | A man 's voice replied , ‘ Elizabeth , dearest Elizabeth , you must have thought of these things fully as much as I ! |
| 8 | You must have thought of some more than that . |
| 9 | You should 've thought of that , ’ said the foreman . |
| 10 | Because you should have you should have heard by this time . |
| 11 | You should have seen to this . ’ |
| 12 | He said , ‘ Shall I get a bottle of wine ? ’ and Val said , disagreeably and truthfully , ‘ You should have thought of that some time back ; it 'll all go cold . ’ |
| 13 | Louise : You should have thought of that before you started fooling around . |
| 14 | Cherub , you should have thought of this mate . |
| 15 | It was the perfect cue for Gazzer to say : ‘ You should have thought about that before you shoved him in , should n't you ? ’ |
| 16 | Agnes again stopped herself from yelling , ‘ How do I know ! ’ and she was about to say , ‘ You should have thought about this before , ’ but this would have been a stupid reply , for when that urge was tearing at your body and there was a way of getting rid of it , would one stop to think ? |
| 17 | When you might have ticked off all the other things . |
| 18 | ‘ You might have heard of this — potheen ! ’ he said with a smile on his return . |
| 19 | You 'd have imagined from all the interest on his face that I was trying to sell him my butterfly collection . |
| 20 | So he said well if you 'd have come over this morning June you 'd have fainted ! |
| 21 | Erm also the accountant you could 've tried to of got round because you were , you were digging the hole there erm you know where he 's , okay he wants to see the accountant , will this be a good idea I mean you could 've said yeah you know you appreciate that and all the rest of it and you could 've gone more into the tax side of where you , you know , you could 've perhaps er the company could 've benefited by putting some into the pension scheme as opposed erm paying all the taxes maybe you could 've gone in that way . |
| 22 | You could have sat on this then ! |
| 23 | ‘ I doubt if you could have thought of any I did n't deserve . |
| 24 | ‘ Nothing now , ’ she answered , ‘ but you could have died in this hut of yours . ’ |
| 25 | You 'd put your hundred and twenty five thousand pounds down , you 'd also put down half of the jointly owned property because you could have dealt with that while you were alive and you 'll end up paying large amounts of inheritance tax . |
| 26 | ‘ I wish you could have talked about this when we had more time , Adam . ’ |
| 27 | I do n't want to raise your hopes too much , Rebecca , but I think what , er the idea behind this , I er , thing is , families with two tellies , paying twenty pounds extra for the second set , and perhaps for the third set , another twenty pounds , it 's to try and lessen the burden on viewers who genuinely ca n't afford the existing licence fee as it is now , and Rebecca , I would have thought that you would 've fallen into that category . |
| 28 | This is a compilation of mbaqanga music , very typical of the township jive you would have heard in any shebeen since the 1960s : lively , rollicking music with fluid , chattering guitars . |
| 29 | ‘ There are lots of women like me around that you would have felt like this about if you 'd met them . ’ |
| 30 | It is common sense once you see the solution but it is unlikely that you would have thought of all of them a priori . |