Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [vb pp] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You should 've asked some of your friends to stay , ’ said Betty . |
| 2 | I thought I should 've got some er compensation anyway or something . |
| 3 | ‘ But I 'm bound to say that in your position I think I should have made some enquiry into his bona fides . |
| 4 | I really think by now , Earth Summit or no Earth Summit , that we should have received some acknowledgment from DGXI . |
| 5 | Countersigning officers should have received some training in JAR interviewing and counselling skills . |
| 6 | ‘ We should have sent some people to the airport , ’ she muttered . |
| 7 | You should have heard some of the stories that went round when you first came to Easton … |
| 8 | The boat trip should have provided some respite but it is difficult to see how . |
| 9 | My relationship with my father had not changed , although I should have welcomed some change , since the days of my early childhood : it is difficult for most parents to admit that their children are growing up and therefore in need of a more flexible parental attitude . |
| 10 | I should have caught some more waves so they could n't underscore me . |
| 11 | I knew I should have found some way to follow that pair up to the pond . |
| 12 | The switch from almost ignoring the issue in the first week to so much concentration in the third should have had some effect upon the public . |
| 13 | ‘ Someone in overall charge of training who should have had some formal training in that field themselves ’ . |
| 14 | I said : ‘ I told you you should have had some breakfast ’ . ’ |
| 15 | Entry Requirements : Besides a First or Second Class Honours degree or its equivalent , applicants should have had some prior programming experience . |
| 16 | Well , they erm seem to think we should have had some yellow in it for some obscure reason to match the programme , but I do n't know , I thing it would have taken the erm the look off the thing . |
| 17 | I think I should have pruned some of my flowering shrubs this spring , is it too late now ? |
| 18 | I should have brought some of these things . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , then I should have married some gypsy who would have trodden all over the fire with his bare feet , ’ said Lili . |
| 20 | It will be said perhaps that I should have combined some principle of conduct with propositions about the flavours . |
| 21 | A meeting in March should have resolved some of the present issues but the long-term future of the Biennale still presents difficulties : ‘ Let's have the centenary then close the Biennale down for good ’ is the recent opinion of Gianni de Michelis , Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs . |
| 22 | We should have taken some heed from the birch trees halfway up the track which were bending double in the gale , and from the fact that five minutes after leaving the car , we were wetter than the Scottish Sub-Aqua team . |
| 23 | Although Georgian architecture is now so popular and so familiar , its introduction must have shocked some people at the time . |
| 24 | I must have prepared some twelve pieces for possible auditions . |
| 25 | That meant , or so I like to flatter myself , that it must have struck some chord with at least one practising politician . |
| 26 | He believed she must have received some of his mailings by now as she was in an even worse temper than usual . |
| 27 | If a trust can be established with the posthumous child as trustee , then he must have received some benefit attributable to the intention of the deceased and arising from succession to him . |
| 28 | Although the Club was for Brakspear 's an outlet for their products without many responsibility of property up-keep , their generosity was far in excess of what might be expected on strictly commercial terms and doubtless when their relationship and arrangements were terminated in 1983 , the Club 's former President , John Chalcraft , also the Brewery 's retired Managing Director , must have felt some regret . |
| 29 | She must have realised some years before that I was n't headed in the direction of St Margaret 's , Westminster , but she had still intended the occasion to glitter , a bright milestone in our uneventful lives . |
| 30 | If the answer to that question can not be verbalised succinctly then the meeting must have served some purpose other than the interchange of information fields ( it may for example have had a social value or a " credit " assessment value ) . |