Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [vb pp] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should have fortified myself better against invaders . ’ |
| 2 | He should have placed himself in the middle between Laura and Maggie he thought . |
| 3 | Having been taught that , at a time when priests were not disagreed with , it is small wonder that John Kennedy should have involved himself , and thousands after him , in an anti-Communist crusade in Vietnam ; that Joseph McCarthy should have conducted his anti-Communist witch-hunts ; or that Casey should have made the fight against Communism his life 's work , even asking that money should be given after his death not for flowers , but for the contras . |
| 4 | ‘ Perhaps you should have given yourself longer . ’ |
| 5 | The solution is not to stop training , racing and getting up in the morning , but to make a few subtle adaptations , like allowing ourselves rest days we should have given ourselves years ago . |
| 6 | ‘ I should have realised myself , ’ the dark man continued . |
| 7 | The Lord Chancellor , Lord Mackay , said it was regrettable that the judge should have expressed himself in this way . |
| 8 | It is a consideration which I should have applied myself to the assessment of general damages to favour this plaintiff . |
| 9 | Those still with troublesome suspicions should have asked themselves how Pakistan 's fast men could have survived the Cornhill Test series had they been doing something illegal to the ball while on view not only to alert umpires and batting opponents but to thousands of onlookers at the various grounds and before the probing eye of television . |
| 10 | ‘ Perhaps you should have concerned yourself as much about avoiding emotional involvement yourself as about protecting me , ’ she said , and her voice was still sharp . |
| 11 | ‘ Sorry , I should have introduced myself first . ’ |
| 12 | He should have looked himself ; he might have got some indication . |
| 13 | I should have discharged myself this morning . ’ |
| 14 | To tell hospital managers that they should have paced themselves to spread the money over the full year is a denial of all the theoretical advantages of a free market . |
| 15 | It is perhaps ironic that a financier whose fortunes had foundered on the unreliability of the royal credit should have busied himself three years after his bankruptcy with devising a project for a national bank whose impracticability his own fate had spectacularly demonstrated . |
| 16 | Dawn Allenby , a masochist if ever there was one , should have prostrated herself at the feet of Desmond Fairchild , a sadist in a trilby hat worn with the brim turned up all the way round like vaudeville comic . |
| 17 | Although I know that in these matters there is almost no limit to what people will do , I am horrified that Victoria should have subjected herself to an Aids test and — as I have heard happens — the offers of emotional counselling and financial advice . |
| 18 | I did n't think of myself as one of them , then ; now I do n't see I should have left myself out . |
| 19 | You should have dedicated yourself to bringing up your child … . ’ |
| 20 | They know the qualifying course as well as any team in Europe and , shortly before 7pm , should have earned themselves a toast in vodka , imported , of course . |
| 21 | In retrospect , it seems unsurprising that subsequent Jackson LPs should have found themselves weaving through a variety of musical styles . |
| 22 | Incredible , bloody incredible , that the Service should have found itself within a whisker of escape , within a few heartbeats … |
| 23 | ‘ If you had warned me then of the horrors in store , I should have thrown myself under the stage rather than have travelled inside it . ’ |
| 24 | It was typical of everything Louise was that she should have thrown herself away on that dreadful Randall . |
| 25 | It is surprising that New Scientist should have convinced itself that the nuclear weapons policy of the SDP is ‘ indistinguishable ’ from that of the government . |
| 26 | You must have worn yourself out , trying to satisfy all of them ! ’ |
| 27 | It must have transmitted itself to the patients , for even they gave up after their initial attempts at jollity , and by mid-morning a definite air of gloom seemed to have settled over the place . |
| 28 | He must have worried himself to death just because he was afraid to tell me . ’ |
| 29 | The same scenario must have presented itself to Randy , Mitch and Noel . |
| 30 | Not apprehensive he was going astray , the took towards the river ; but having a high bank to mount , and being nearly exhausted with wandering and the effect of the liquor , he was most fortunately prevented from rising the mound , or he certainly must have precipitated himself ( as it was near high water ) into the Medway . |