Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [verb] more " in BNC.
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1 | She must 've used more than that . |
2 | They possibly should have scored more tries , but as against England , the Welsh defended very well . ’ |
3 | Travel agent Peter Marsh , 46 , of Colchester , Essex , said : ‘ Both should have made more effort to be together and to make the marriage work . |
4 | ‘ Sometimes I feel I should have made more of an effort with him , ’ Kate said . |
5 | I should have made more effort to get close to her , Claudia thought miserably ; all her efforts had been rebuffed , but , deny it or not , the bond was there and she hesitated to turn her sensitive twin over to Roman Wyatt 's not so tender mercy . |
6 | Steve Gaughan should have made more of a dangerous free kick on the edge of the Stoke box but fired his 20-yard effort wide . |
7 | It is worth mentioning , however , that one of the emerging conclusions of the Welsh Affairs Committee inquiry ( though it is still early days ) is that CPRW could and should have done more to alert the Welsh Office to departures from planning policy and should have created more of a public stink over such abuses . |
8 | She should have drunk more of the wine . |
9 | It was even just possible that I should have to spend more of the war in this country than I had done in my own . |
10 | He should have played more comedy . ’ |
11 | In early November Abilio José Osorio Soares , the ( Timorese ) governor of East Timor , reportedly told the Indonesian legal magazine Forum Keadilan that Indonesian troops should have killed more people at the Santa Cruz cemetery in November 1991 . |
12 | The mothers , says Mr Wijeratne in what sounds like an unfeeling remark , should have paid more attention to what their children were doing . |
13 | Swayne ; perhaps he should have paid more attention to Swayne . |
14 | Oh , she should have paid more attention to him when they lay close ; she should have absorbed the hollows and smoothness of his brow and learned him by heart . |
15 | I think perhaps you should have paid more attention to Chapter 85 in your instruction manual . |
16 | Obviously I should have provided more text than I did , but I suppose I was in rather a hurry . |
17 | ‘ Mr. Paris , you should have left more time . |
18 | With hindsight , I now feel that i should have put more effort into explaining these two very difficult concepts , particularly imaginary time , which seems to be the thing in the book with which people have the most trouble . |
19 | Crawford wrote to the committee responding to their charges , and their reaction cam in terms probably familiar to many professional cricketers dealing with committees of enthusiasts : ‘ Mr Crawford should have shown more enthusiasm in his work , but the committee is willing to overlook past shortcomings on the understanding that improvement is shown . |
20 | With their numerical superiority , they should have shown more enterprise . |
21 | It said the Tornado pilot was not provided with enough information and controllers should have shown more awareness . |
22 | The Allegri sounded a bit under-nourished against Mr Campbell 's easy delivery , particularly in the second movement , which should have had more force , though if one expects a bracing scherzo-like piece at this point , Bliss surely over-wrote it , producing instead the effect of a finale . |
23 | This appalled Mrs Browning , who said at once that it was God using her as an instrument and that Wilson should have had more faith . |
24 | ‘ He should have had more sense . ’ |
25 | I should have had more sense . |
26 | Should have had more sang froid e -bluesy pass-at-her-at-a-party-but . |
27 | In addition to all the rationally established facts I formulate in the indicative mood , there is the imperative to respect them , expressed in injunctions of varying generality imposing varying degrees of obligation , ‘ You ought to know that ’ , ‘ You should have had more sense ’ , ‘ You had better check that ’ , ‘ You were wrong to overlook that ’ , and sometimes directly in the imperative mood , ‘ Face facts ’ ‘ Know thyself ’ , ‘ Think what you 're doing ’ . |
28 | ‘ The supporters here should have had more success . |
29 | The Executive Committee discussed the case at several further meetings and decided to re-examine it when Black 's solicitor should have had more time to ascertain the prospects of money compensation from the government for the injuries . |
30 | They were certainly too much for a dismal Everton outfit and Chelsea should have had more goals as they eased on to the heels of the leading Premier League pack . |