Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few days later , an irate Mrs Jacobs was in touch : ‘ She stated that neither she nor her husband saw our representative and she is annoyed that ‘ some person ’ should have questioned her servants about their private affairs . ’ |
| 2 | I should have questioned her then . |
| 3 | " It is a good thing you addressed me so politely , or I should have eaten you . |
| 4 | He had said nothing to disturb her , nothing , that is , that should have disturbed her . |
| 5 | There was a rational explanation ; but there seems no explanation as to why , thirty years before , the violation of the house should have disturbed my sleep . |
| 6 | And what were my wonderful talents , that I should have felt it mattered that they were ‘ wasted ’ ? |
| 7 | Dire though the attacks on Belfast have been during the past two months , it is a sign of just how successful economic development has been that the IRA should have felt it necessary to retaliate in the way that it has . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The situation should have made me totally miserable , but at first it did not — at least , not in any overt or lasting fashion . |
| 10 | The possibility that she might have been raped should have made him pause and perhaps pity , but his savage jealousy allowed no room for it . |
| 11 | It should have made him feel more imprisoned than ever , but instead brought an unexpected breath of freedom . |
| 12 | He was dressed in a blue shirt and jeans , which should have made him look more relaxed , and did n't . |
| 13 | The formal clothes should have made him look more urbane and civilised , but they did n't . |
| 14 | A new car , a Porsche , showing off to friends , laughing , not really concentrating — The accident should have made him grow up a little . |
| 15 | You should have made him buy you a bloody pint ! |
| 16 | Pride alone should have made her indifferent to Luke 's touch , at the very least ; old hatred and new resentment ought to make it repulsive . |
| 17 | Although he always sent her out with new clothes that should have made her embody his idea of elegance , he was resigned to the fact that she would return in a version far removed from his original concept . |
| 18 | She was a retired hospital nurse and Mark had often wondered why her noble profession , so intimately connected with the great events of life , should have made her so petty-minded . |
| 19 | The glance of astonishment Feargal gave her should have made her back off , but she was so thoroughly fed up with this family , with being the meat in the sandwich of everyone 's feud , that she ignored him . |
| 20 | The deputy judge refused probate of the 1982 document on the grounds that it had not been duly executed in that , although the amendment by section 17 of the Administration of Justice Act 1982 of section 9 of the Wills Act 1837 allowed a valid signature to be made otherwise than at the foot of the will , it had not altered the requirement that the testator should have made his will before signing it ; and that , in any event , the testator had lacked testamentary capacity . |
| 21 | ‘ Robert ’ — he turned on his factor — ‘ you should have made it plain — ‘ Nothing is plain out there , I tell you . |
| 22 | The failure of the DUP to endorse the illegality of working-class loyalists , which stems from a general reluctance to break the law and an evaluation of the present situation which argues that such extreme acts are not yet justified , should have made it unpopular with working-class loyalists and to an extent it has . |
| 23 | This should have made it irrelevant to the case before him . |
| 24 | Asserting , what was palpably untrue , that ‘ There are probably few people in India who do not sincerely regret that you should have made it impossible for any government to leave you at liberty ’ , he handed down a sentence of six years ' simple imprisonment , pointing out — the crowning touch-that the sentence was the same as that given to the nationalist hero Bal Gangadhar Tilak , twelve years before . |
| 25 | We should have made it clear to the Media Action team not to refer callers to named staff . |
| 26 | Moreover the Keynesian analysis of the labour market as set out in Chapter 5 should have made it fairly clear that Keynes was not denying any of the neoclassical assumptions motivating self-interested households and firms to engage in trade in attempts to achieve Pareto-efficiency . |
| 27 | A PSDR should have made it easier to restrain the growth of the money supply . |
| 28 | ‘ I failed by one shot when I should have made it easily , and that gave me the kick up the backside I needed . ’ |
| 29 | Wyllie should have made it 13-0 , but missed an easy drop goal in front of the posts . |
| 30 | Should have made it with that . |