Example sentences of "[modal v] have [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | now you ha you must 've converted to a unit linked policy by continuing after the period you |
| 2 | Bill thought I 'd died on him the other night cos I was , you know , me breathing and everything , and then all of a sudden I must 've relaxed for a bit and not needed to breathe and he give me a shock he says God I thought you were dead . |
| 3 | The failure of Britain 's membership of the European Monetary System should have led to a complete rethink of the Maastricht agreement to move to a single currency . |
| 4 | Gunn argues that Nina should have gone through a second , refurbishing phase , to bring it in line with the German accelerator , Desy . |
| 5 | ‘ If they thought the children were in danger they should have gone for a care order in the first place , ’ Levy said . |
| 6 | Overturning this residence order the Appeal Court was clear Nottinghamshire SSD should have used the Act 's public law provisions from the outset — it should have gone for a care order or a supervision order , enabling social workers to oversee the children 's welfare . |
| 7 | He should have gone for a walk on the Downs or gone shopping in the town for antiques , or spent the morning browsing in bookshops . |
| 8 | Meiko Scientific Plc , Bristol has been getting a bit of stick in the US press following its sale of one of its massively parallel systems to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under a $15m agreement : complainants say the order should have gone to a US firm and not to a UK one ; Meiko repudiates ‘ the damaging impressions ’ created in a New York Times story on the order , saying that it was consistent with US national security policies and procedures with support provided by cleared US citizens ; it bridles at the suggestion that the machine is unproven , pointing to over 400 installations , and says the Israeli transaction was in compliance with both US and British export regulations and that this was confirmed by the British Embassy in Washington . |
| 9 | Erm and I I was n't feeling on top form and er looking back , I perhaps should have gone to a doctor then . |
| 10 | Maybe they should have collaborated on a book , instead of writing separate accounts . |
| 11 | If at some stage we entered into a single currency , we should have to deal with a different matter . |
| 12 | I find it astonishing that , in less than a year since proposals on these lines by Robert Jackson , the higher education minister , were leaked , the majority of university vice-chancellors should have moved to a position whereby they are actively pursuing the option of charging students the full cost of their courses . |
| 13 | It is clear that the therapist should have endeavoured at a much earlier stage to involve the parents in treatment , preferably by means of conjoint sessions with Pamela and her parents together . |
| 14 | That in ten years she should have risen from a frightened , defiant seventeen-year-old to this . |
| 15 | It was fitting , in the 50th anniversary year of the Battle of Britain , that the Association should have engaged in a full range of activities aimed at meeting its responsibilities towards former members of the Royal Air Force , both men and women . |
| 16 | It was ironic that while most of the men I knew seemed inclined to some form of polygamy , Syl , now that he was getting older and had less energy , should have decided on a monogamous relationship with me . |
| 17 | Gorbachev paid warm tribute to Dubcek , saying his Czechoslovak reforms should have served as a model to the Communist world . |
| 18 | It may seem a depressing conclusion to Anselm 's struggle for the primacy that it should have ended in a futile resort to forgery . |
| 19 | The prosecution should have applied to a judge of the Central Criminal Court to revoke bail and then if bail was granted again , to impose the condition of medical examination required by the statute . |
| 20 | Before LGCM took up its office in the tower of St Botolph 's , Malcolm Johnson should have applied for a faculty . |
| 21 | He should have waited for a better moment instead of acting impulsively . |
| 22 | Administrative changes during the late nineteenth century should have resulted in a higher proportion of cases being reported . |
| 23 | At a more mature stage , the increase in sales volume should have resulted in a decline in investment intensity , while profit and ROI will increase if the investment is successful . |
| 24 | And by 1994 , work should have started on a development which will transform the bus station site . |
| 25 | They should have looked for a two-bedded , well-equipped flat in Norwich or in a convenient village close to the shops and post office , and to a church , of course . |
| 26 | It was inevitable therefore that she should have looked for a career in motor racing — at least that was what she told herself . |
| 27 | We should have knocked in a couple of goals and killed off the game . ’ |
| 28 | They are not quite what I should have expected from a man like Serafin . |
| 29 | An exasperated Josh Gifford claimed — with much justification — that ‘ I should have won by a furlong . |
| 30 | Stewart slotted in well in his first full game and Liverpool should have won by a much bigger margin . |