Example sentences of "[modal v] have [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You should 've thought of that , ’ said the foreman . |
| 2 | I mean , she 's told you about her three children but er I suppose she should 've thought of that , should n't she , before she signed on ? |
| 3 | Say no I 'm alright and I must 've lifted my head , all I could hear was this old scraggy voice like a witch , ah serve the fucking bastard right , the fucking honest to fuck , so I must 've sat for another half an hour and I knew I had to go that way to get home . |
| 4 | Mark Edwards for Bicester should have scored after good work by John Thorne and Barry Cooper , but he only half hit his shot and keeper Whittington saved . |
| 5 | Sharp possibly should have scored in 1st half . |
| 6 | I have you pick up Mundi from the police station and deliver him to Heartbreak Hotel where he should have met with certain extinction . |
| 7 | The orders were indeed issued , and the attack should have begun at 4.30 a.m. on August 26 . |
| 8 | In any case , the track record of computer applications — missed cutover dates , greater costs , fewer benefits , and designs which seem to be very different from that promised — should have led to reduced salaries and status , not the opposite . |
| 9 | In retrospect , the ref should have blown for full-time at this point . |
| 10 | NHS dietician Helen Marshall did n't see why she should have to retire at 60 . |
| 11 | It puzzled him beyond measure that the boy should have stumbled upon this private area . |
| 12 | Within the State Department it has been argued that two competing strategies — one ‘ Asian-oriented ’ and the other ‘ Europe-oriented ’ — had emerged and that the critical question was whether the US should have insisted on French concessions to Vietnamese nationalism as a condition of US support . |
| 13 | They should have gone into that game against Wales having forgotten the close match against Australia in the World Cup . |
| 14 | The army was all right , but then I should have gone into agricultural life . |
| 15 | Should have gone for two should n't I ? |
| 16 | Yes you did it was er the advertisement I 'd seen or very similar in the Scotsman newspaper and I must admit when he got all the information I thought damn I should have gone for that myself . |
| 17 | Even when Vinnie left — although we sold him for either what we bought him , or maybe 50 grand more , he had a very good season at Leeds , proved he could play a bit , he should have gone for more . |
| 18 | he should have gone to private school should n't he , really but then |
| 19 | I should have gone to medical school . ’ |
| 20 | That was midway through the first half and Town should have gone in two up . |
| 21 | ‘ What could be less noble in reason , ’ he wrote , ‘ less infinite in faculty , than that man , despite his potentialities , should have fallen into such error in the use of himself , and in this way brought about such a lowering in his standard of functioning that in everything he attempts to accomplish , these harmful conditions tend to become more and more exaggerated . |
| 22 | Given the traditional English attachment to the extravagant version of the judicial independence doctrine , it is perhaps not surprising that even these modest calls for reform should have fallen on deaf ears . |
| 23 | ‘ Some tiny bud that should have split into four |
| 24 | Within the next five years we should have moved into new ( larger ? ) premises designed around a more ergonomic layout than the present facilities . |
| 25 | No one should have to live through that . |
| 26 | ‘ No one should have to live through that . ’ |
| 27 | What a pity it was that he should have to live in that depressing room . |
| 28 | What crime have we committed that we should have to live in this way ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Well , it 's never made sense to me , why human beings should have to live like that . |
| 30 | Indignation surged up within her — that he should have to live like this . |