Example sentences of "[modal v] 've [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very hectic at the moment it 's should 've normally been dropping off quite a lot this time but |
| 2 | You should 've just buggered off . ’ |
| 3 | I should 've just say you 're bragging . |
| 4 | Erm .. you know you should 've nipped that in the bud straight away rather than saying yeah we 'll put it in the post , we can do that , you should 've just said you know well I 'll bring it all along and gone from there . |
| 5 | I think we 're just gon na have to let him moan I would n't mind , but until last weekend , he never give a dickie bird about going to sleep I think it was that came in and set him off she should 've just left him on to it instead of trying to do it herself |
| 6 | Cos he said oh I should 've just hit him there and then and I said yeah instead of fucking hanging about and pissing your mates off , you know what I mean ? |
| 7 | He goes I should 've just fucked her ! |
| 8 | You know the bit when he goes , I should 've just fucked her and She goes , what did you say ? |
| 9 | They 've done more than they should 've really . |
| 10 | I th there was , there was one big point that I actually missed out as well that neither of you have picked up on and that was that Maggie actually said that they were having problems with John in school and I should 've come back and , and said well she di she actually said that she was having problems with John , full stop , and I should 've actually come back and , and clarified whether it was at school or not and hence led to the private education and I missed that one completely and realized that I 'd done it afterwards but none of you picked up on that one . |
| 11 | You know you should 've perhaps questioned him , you know what 's his minimum what , you know , what could he how , how important is his future . |
| 12 | When I looked then at first I could n't see , it was all — you know — black like inside my eyes , but I knew they were open and I could hear the kids yelling — and when I got up he was lying on the sofa , snoring — he must 've just dropped me and let me where I lie- ’ She stopped and Clare sat quietly waiting . |
| 13 | I reckon they must 've nearly got enough for a ticket cos they ask quite a few people . |
| 14 | If you 'd 've just switched it on when I come in it 'd 've been totally different . |
| 15 | Anyway sh she phoned me back and she said yes he was , he was dead keen , he wished it 'd 've just been like pop quiz but he 'll go anyway . |
| 16 | ‘ You could 've just hidden it , ’ said Betty . |
| 17 | If they really wanted they could 've just gone straight for it . |
| 18 | So they kept him in for a cat instead , but Jessie wanted a , then Jessie , she could 've just love a fluffy white , so . |
| 19 | And they couldn't 've well for example with taxation , they could 've erm not taxed the rich peasants at all and then just put all their erm their sort of focus upon the poor peasants and got their income through them and also with land , they could 've just not given any land to poor peasants who were inefficient and given it all to the rich peasants and really gone for a capitalist state . |
| 20 | And the fact that your wife is erm there was something that could 've possibly been done for your wife and that is something that maybe I would 've mentioned at the end , do you think this would of be any benefit to the wife only as maybe an ending statement or something |
| 21 | I could 've actually drawn this quite differently and maybe one of the carbons of on the side yeah ? |
| 22 | but the actual extract as , as Cath said to me the other day , you know she felt sure and I said to her you know in a full length film they could 've actually chosen a better moment |
| 23 | The other thing is as well though you could 've actually got more out of Martin by talking about that because you may have mentioned something that he 's enjoying and says oh I do that , or something like that . |
| 24 | Do that , do that on sixty five divide by one hundred and eighty , multiply by the pi on your calculator , just one second Robin , yeah , it 's usually , it 's just theatrical , you should get , yeah , so you get the same answer , so you can either work it on ratings or you can write it like that , you could 've actually left it like that , if you come to the third by , you put thirteen over what is it ? eh |
| 25 | You 've got ta look at it as an ongoing er on an ongoing problem but erm you , you could 've perhaps have gone into it a little bit more then just to find out erm there was also a mention of , of an income rise in the spring |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | but it would 've normally come to us here you see at |
| 28 | I , I , I could n't really give a figure I mean Mr he , he would 've soon told you , the manager down below . |
| 29 | I would 've probably not 've been here if one had started to speak . |
| 30 | Cos say I was looking for angles and that would 've just been fifty up here would n't it . |