Example sentences of "[modal v] [not/n't] [verb] [vb pp] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They should not have done it . |
| 2 | I am aware that you are much more concerned in the matter , which I am going to lay before you , than your Mother , yet I should not have troubled you with it , except through her , had it not been of Importance not to lose time . |
| 3 | ‘ He should not have said it . |
| 4 | ‘ But after he sat down and thought about it he has come in and apologised to the lads and realised he maybe should not have said it . |
| 5 | ‘ Or perhaps I should not have asked you at all . ’ |
| 6 | I should not have discussed it at all if I had not been asked the questions . |
| 7 | Half of the women of the court were here — which fact , Alexei thought , should not have surprised him . |
| 8 | I should not have exasperated him for I always have the worst of it . |
| 9 | In this sense , while its practical effects would demand close supervision , and while the evidence for it is all late , there does not seem to be any particular reason why the classical jurists should not have admitted it . |
| 10 | I should not have married her . |
| 11 | This perhaps supports the criticism that the Queen 's advisers should not have allowed her to be urged into an immediate invitation to Lord Home and that she should have taken at least a little time fully to apprise herself of the changing political situation and of the views of the Conservative leadership , as it was then emerging . |
| 12 | I should not have allowed you to see him ! ’ |
| 13 | None the less , he wrote , I should not have let her see it . |
| 14 | I should not have let her attend that ridiculous affair , but she insisted . ’ |
| 15 | In Mr Wolfenden 's case , Lord Ross , the Lord Justice-Clerk , sitting with Lords Murray and Kincraig , decided that the stipendiary magistrate at Glasgow should not have found him guilty . |
| 16 | Oh , I must n't have read it . |
| 17 | And I was doing alright myself , I should n't 've let him do it . |
| 18 | As Septimus Coffin pointed out : if he had really thought Pickerage had done it , he would have caned him ; if he did n't know whether he had done it or not , he should n't have slippered him . |
| 19 | ‘ If you wanted that you should n't have sent me somewhere tame , ’ Maggie pointed out , nearly laughing as she said the word . |
| 20 | I should n't have given it to you . |
| 21 | You should n't have given it ! |
| 22 | Plus I learned that you know from from our group reading of my play the other week , I learned what the function of a director was because you know obviously I should n't have given you all your parts to read for a week to sort of work out what the inflection should have been . |
| 23 | Oh , I should n't have phoned you ; I might have known you 'd make it seem as if I 'm moaning . |
| 24 | ‘ If it had been Jonathan I should n't have heard him ; he and Sarah were like cats about the house . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ You should n't have kicked her so hard , ’ Jack said with a grin . |
| 26 | I should n't have disturbed you . ’ |
| 27 | I 'm sorry , I should n't have disturbed you . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm not saying you should n't have hit him , ’ said Polly patiently , who was , after all , the daughter of a trained killer ( Squadron Leader , RAF , Ret. ) and not unduly given to pacifism . |
| 29 | That I should n't have swept you straight off to the church ? |
| 30 | But they should n't have shut him up on his own . |