Example sentences of "[modal v] have had [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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31 ‘ I should have had the support of my team but they are gutless .
32 She should have had the decency to keep away .
33 He should have had the guts to demand more or get out . ’
34 This is the wrong way round , should have had the grapefruit before the er , egg and bacon .
35 Graham said the Swedish FA should have had the courtesy to inform him .
36 Middi said yesterday : ‘ I was very annoyed — they should have had the courtesy to tell us .
37 You should have had the credit .
38 He 's seen the film 36 times already , and all I can get out of him is how he should have had the part .
39 ’ You should have had the damson pie , ’ Fred said .
40 Sole also believes that ‘ we should have had the game won by half-time ’ , and contends that Doddie Weir 's perforated eardrum — caused by Wade Dooley 's elbow — changed the course of the game .
41 The truth is that Chelsea should have had the game sewn up long before Beasant 's blunder .
42 ‘ Many of us felt he should have had the courage to admit that the job was n't working out instead of using his reputation as England manager to negotiate a lucrative overseas contract and then leaving everyone high and dry without a second thought .
43 That is the objection er the whole fundamental objection to what is proposed in the Bill as it is a centralising measure was shown quite clearly er er a a by the desire of the Home Secretary to increase his own power as when he intended to appoint the Chairman absolute impudence in my view er to suggest tha that he he should have had the power to appoint a chairman and although congratulations have now been er er poured upon him for withdrawing to wh what 's a position , I would sooner congratulate your er Your Lordships , er all of whom spoke in such a manner that it would have been impossible for the Home Secretary to have carried the measure through .
44 Bell said : ‘ My only complaint about the game was that we should have had the penalty before Glentoran scored .
45 They evidently thought that Meryl Armitage should have had the job .
46 Because on the basis of the economic models and the way which we look at determinants of demand in economics , this should n't have happened , we should have had the reverse , we should have had fewer holidays being taken and certainly fewer overseas holidays .
47 ‘ Sarah told me that he never went out without several pounds in his wallet and , in any case , he should have had the week 's housekeeping money on him .
48 It is on behalf of the latter that we should have had an opportunity of voting in Committee , which we were denied , and that we should have an opportunity tonight to vote in the House .
49 By now , they should have had an outline to present to the sponsors .
50 Now then all we 're doing , what we should have done is that we should have had an opening balance at the beginni or the end of December when the di information was first struck .
51 But now the shot by Gemmell and the rest of the players of and the bench are curious they thought they should have had an off should have had an offside in that er buildup .
52 ‘ They should have had an interviewer questioning people and going into things more deeply — maybe in a phone-in format , ’ he said .
53 That I should have had an abortion or given it away .
54 The number of kings who came to grief in the fifth century is staggeringly high , and this must have had a deterrent effect on kings who contemplated taking initiatives .
55 ‘ The drivers must have had a shock .
56 ‘ It looks as if he must have had a run-in with a few trees finding his way home that night .
57 I ca n't be sure what my face looked like when I opened it and saw Maureen on the doorstep , but I imagine it must have had a grin on it from ear to ear .
58 The ice cream girl must have had a lie in this Sunday morning , and she arrived towards the end of the film showing prior to the interval .
59 Old Charlie must have had a bit of a penchant for potholing judging by the amount of time he spent in every rock crevice north of Carlisle , but I prefer to suspend my scepticism and believe that the great man did indeed peel off his powdered wig and roll out a sleeping-bag in all the places that maps and local handouts would have us believe .
60 Rosenior must have had a rush of blood as he kicked Kernaghan .
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