Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] [verb] i [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You should 've sent me to a decent school , ’ said Camille . |
| 2 | You must stop treating me like a naughty girlfriend , for I am neither the one nor the other . |
| 3 | You should have summoned me at once . ’ |
| 4 | If , on the other hand , God should have ordained for me thus , miserable and wretched as I am , and should have called me by His grace to sit solitary and serve him in that manner , as he deigns to grant to me , shall I not persevere in that calling ? |
| 5 | That should have alerted me to the fact that Dr Tom Courtney was not as he seemed . |
| 6 | You should have phoned me at ten o'clock , I would have picked you up . |
| 7 | ‘ She should have consulted me about Apricot 's name , ’ said Ken . |
| 8 | ‘ The adrenalin was pumping and my experience should have stood me in good stead . |
| 9 | ‘ The adrenalin was pumping and my experience should have stood me in good stead . |
| 10 | I 'm very sorry , ’ said Breeze sedately , ‘ that you should have seen me in that cowardly moment . ’ |
| 11 | You should have seen me in the dock , man . |
| 12 | Why he should hold them , why he should so strangely realize them , and above all , why he should have chosen me to be his solitary audience of one , remained a total mystery . |
| 13 | Even though the plight of those two climbers should have released me from my fear of calling for help on behalf of others , I 'm still wary unless I come across someone whose legs are a few hundred yards from their body . |
| 14 | Someone should have told me about the local MIND and the National Schizophrenia Fellowship and what they could offer . |
| 15 | ‘ You should have told me about Mrs Richards ’ heart condition — and about her request not to be moved from Monte Samana . |
| 16 | ‘ You should have told me at the time ! ’ |
| 17 | It must have lulled me into a day dream . |
| 18 | You must have mistaken me for someone else . |
| 19 | He must have rescued me from the canal , because my clothes were wet through , so were his … ’ |
| 20 | She must have reminded me in her remote stillness , her lucid silence , of someone I used to know , used to love . |
| 21 | ‘ And if you are too tired to write you must come to see me in any case , and then I shall know you are safe . |
| 22 | Group pick up you 'll need to ask me about , group pick up with call forwarding . |
| 23 | Obviously I will send this to both of you and if David is back in England at an appropriate time he might like to join me in discussions with the programmer . |
| 24 | You 'll have to take me with you , Inquisitor Draco . |
| 25 | In terms of a planning process Anne was talking about , you 'll have to forgive me for being relatively new to Oxfordshire and coming from an area where we had a planning system which was largely the one I was describing , and the planning role that I saw I wanted to develop was very much already mentioned which was actually going round to small groups of people , to the local caring groups on a much more informal basis , and getting their contribution about that and then feeding it back into the system , which you say is there in a sense . |
| 26 | ‘ You 'll have to mark me against him , ’ he said . |
| 27 | I was going to say , I have no idea , unless there 's , if they 're on the agenda , I 'll pick them up and see , if there 's anything else , you 'll have tell me about it I 'm afraid , chair . |
| 28 | ‘ You 'll have to direct me from here . ’ |
| 29 | You can tell him from me that if he wants me to stay in this urban backwater of yours he 'll have to provide me with an interesting occupation — and I do n't mean modelling your dress . |
| 30 | yes , alright , I , you 'll have to ban me from cutting your loaf , you 'll have to do it , you will . |