Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [vb pp] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He should have had the same chance as them , Church or no Church . ’ |
| 2 | Ideally , all patients should have had the same number of follow up visits . |
| 3 | but you should have got the same thing from them . |
| 4 | This was followed by an interview between the President and Von Papen : and I can not help thinking that , during their conversation together , the former must have assured the latter that , so long as she could hold out against Allied demands , Turkey would abstain from hostile action towards Germany . |
| 5 | My mother always kept letters in their envelopes and a lot of other people must have done the same or the stamp business generally would have been the poorer . ’ |
| 6 | He dialled Dottie 's number , trying not to dwell on thoughts of the times Michael Banks must have done the same from the same phone . |
| 7 | I 've only been on since I read that thing in the square ball , and I suppose loads must have done the same as me and jumped on the bandwagon . |
| 8 | ‘ Sure there 's plenty of people must have said the same thing after a visit from you , love . |
| 9 | He must have had the same kind of feelings as my father had at the prospect of being sent to Fontanellato . |
| 10 | A genuine working class origin must have impressed the former Viscount Stansgate . |
| 11 | If he was in her place , he might have done the same thing . |
| 12 | You and I might have done the same if we had been there , though we would have had none of the technical skill and detailed knowledge of Fleming . |
| 13 | ‘ I might have done the same myself , in her place . |
| 14 | Its role could have been vital , for in theory skilful negotiators might have made the most of military situations which , at a given moment , greatly favoured one side rather than the other . |
| 15 | And the teacher , too , might have made the same terrible mistake that she had made back in Teheran all those years before . |
| 16 | She realized that she might have made the same mistake as Joan Durbeyfield . |
| 17 | It is not just that beetles and mice are pests ( we might have said the same of ladybirds and the pursuit of wildfowl ) , but rather that the relative similarity of the larger mammals to ourselves materially affects our thinking and is reflected in our instinctive responses . |
| 18 | George Brown might have said the same . |
| 19 | Otherwise he might have suffered the same fate as Sheila Brayford . |
| 20 | Had Leeds United not removed Stuttgart , Germany 's coach might have experienced the same difficulties as Roxburgh . |
| 21 | She could 've had the same thing free on the National Health ! |
| 22 | Ashdown could have done the same . |
| 23 | We could have done the same with Benjamin . |
| 24 | I wished she could have done the same for me . |
| 25 | Buyers who have paid high prices do not discover that they could have obtained the same goods at lower prices ; sellers who have sold for low prices do not discover that they could have obtained higher prices . |
| 26 | Had Koons asked for permission to use the photo , and Rogers had refused , Prutzman said , ‘ Koons could have made the same point about banality with any number of other images . |
| 27 | Ramsay himself did not know this Ettrick Forest area so well as the main Middle and East Marches ; but from the route the usurper had taken from Moffat , it looked as though he was heading either for the mid-Tweed or Teviot dales — although he could have reached the former more easily by turning off in the Broughton area of Tweedsmuir . |
| 28 | I mean , you could have asked the same about us , on a lot of things . |
| 29 | ‘ He could have had the same yesterday . ’ |
| 30 | Yesterday Capt Roy Beaumont , Loganair 's operations director , said that although the plane involved was an ATP , the down draught could have had the same effect on any aircraft coming in to land . |