Example sentences of "[modal v] have [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You should 've sent me to a decent school , ’ said Camille . |
| 2 | Had to be paid , it ca n't be paid by the twenty eighth it 's er you know well if I could 've got hold of David or er , Andrew , I was gon na give Andrew a right bollocking for just pushing it in and he should 've sent it to er , Michael , Michael 's just got it shoved in front of his nose a in Edinburgh . |
| 3 | I should 've ended it before that . |
| 4 | Oh so you should 've got them for January ? |
| 5 | Not only was it edible , it was superb , we should 've captured it on camera . |
| 6 | I should 've learnt everything by the time I was thirty , not wait until I was in me forties . |
| 7 | Well you should 've put it on your plate . |
| 8 | He says it 's me wife and she 's as mad as hell , and they says yeah we can hear her from here and s must 've said summat about writing and she starts bawling and shouting , oh summat about you 've got to write I want a letter by Friday , you 're not messing me about no more , you 're not talking to him you 're talking to me . |
| 9 | And erm I got down on my hands and knees I must 've done it for an hour |
| 10 | ‘ Somebody must 've left it by mistake . |
| 11 | Should have made it with that . |
| 12 | Now we do n't have any new things , I should have Thank you for asking the question because we 're trying to give the impression of a medieval house the what 's special about this is that it 's a medieval house as it looked when it was new . |
| 13 | Perhaps the most audacious thing about this exhibition is that the British Museum should have countenanced it at all . |
| 14 | It could and should have led him to great opportunities . |
| 15 | The fact of it was , Amanda should never have brought him in here at all ; she should have kept him in Reception , as per company policy . |
| 16 | We should have kept it on hold . |
| 17 | And I should have kept it to myself . |
| 18 | He should have referred it to Management and Personnel over in Great George Street and let the Security Division sort it out . |
| 19 | ‘ I believe rather than suppressing cruelty it can actually encourage it and the people who made the claims should have substantiated them by giving names . ’ |
| 20 | They are entitled to these benefits , they should have received them in the past , and they should have received them by law . |
| 21 | They are entitled to these benefits , they should have received them in the past , and they should have received them by law . |
| 22 | ‘ Someone should have shut you in a hospital for the criminally insane and thrown away the key . ’ |
| 23 | That John should have kissed her like that — in the way she had quite often seen boys kiss girls on their way home- and that she should not have minded , apart from the slight awkwardness of the people surging around them , would have seemed incredible to her a few months ago . |
| 24 | That 's not too bad actually except the day the young men loaded it back onto the trailer when we 'd finished and it was one of these corners , and I happened to be muggins on the corner where that lever was , and he had n't tied it , it was only in the ratchet , you know , he should have tied it of course . |
| 25 | But that one should have believed something in a hypothetical situation may and often is used as part of an argument to establish what one should now believe . |
| 26 | ‘ You should have said something before this . |
| 27 | ‘ Anna should have said nothing at all . |
| 28 | Before I go to sleep I wonder about whether I should have said anything to him about Mr Archer and his phone calls and Ares . |
| 29 | The immediate sight of him , which should have filled them with relief and joy , brought only terror . |
| 30 | You should have summoned me at once . ’ |