Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [verb] [pron] the " in BNC.
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1 | I loved him ; what more natural than that I should want to give him the chance to love me back ? |
2 | ‘ The Prime Minister must make known what the Government 's plans are . |
3 | There is no more natural monopoly than the public utility of water supply and it is obscene that anyone should seek to make it the instrument of private advantage . |
4 | For my purpose I should like to call him the man in the jury box , for the moral judgement of society must be something about which any twelve men or women drawn at random might after discussion be expected to be unanimous . |
5 | Desperation and hunger had addled hir senses : SHe should have guessed what the score would be . |
6 | The bus stops again at the Kensington Hilton , a hotel so much on the edge of Kensington that had it been built 10 feet to the west , they should have called it the Shepherds Bush Hilton . |
7 | They should have called it the charge of the bike brigade . |
8 | Should have nabbed him the park though ! |
9 | ‘ That she should have given him the letter a week after his arrival . |
10 | The arrival of Deacon Billingsley should have given me the satisfaction that my telephone call had been treated seriously , but I sensed this policeman was not going to offer me any satisfaction at all . |
11 | should have given us the nudge . |
12 | Should have given us the money , money . |
13 | This 28-day programme should have given you the opportunity to come to terms with your body . |
14 | I should have given you the benefit of the doubt . ’ |
15 | ‘ I suppose I should have given you the choice before I took matters into my own hands . ’ |
16 | Should have realised it the first time , but that 's what happens when you make assumptions . |
17 | I think you should have done it the other way . |
18 | John Dobbin , defending , said the interviewer ‘ should have expected someone the age of her own father ’ . |
19 | It was the Edinburgh man 's only success from four attempts , and with Nick White failing with four attempts earlier in the game , the Scots squandered opportunities that should have won them the game comfortably . |
20 | But you should have told me the truth from the beginning . |
21 | I should have told you the Huns have balloons the way you have the runs , but they are short of skilled observers ? |
22 | Surely he must have realized who the fräulein was . |
23 | Absolutely , you did n't come here and kick and rush , you did n't come here and defend , you played some delightful football , football I know you always like to play , that must have pleased you the way the game was played . |
24 | He believed she must have sent him the bill personally , wanting to meet him as much as he wanted to meet her . |
25 | Mrs Westaway is usually very good at keeping him under control , but he must have given her the slip somehow . |
26 | The girl must have given him the elbow , Harriet decided . |
27 | The break-through that the Anisminic case made was the recognition by the majority of this House that if a tribunal whose jurisdiction was limited by statute or subordinate legislation mistook the law applicable to the facts as it had found them , it must have asked itself the wrong question , i.e. , one into which it was not empowered to inquire and so had no jurisdiction to determine . |
28 | The break-through that the Anisminic case made was the recognition by the majority of this House that if a tribunal whose jurisdiction was limited by statute or subordinate legislation mistook the law applicable to the facts as it had found them , it must have asked itself the wrong question , i.e. , one into which it was not empowered to inquire and so had no jurisiction to determine . |
29 | Somebody must have undressed her the night before . |
30 | But the thousands of people who trudged to the polling stations to cast their vote for this party must have known what the terror tailpiece to the democratic process would have been . |