Example sentences of "[modal v] have [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She spoke as if she should have known about more than the dying town . |
| 32 | You really should have known about this , should n't you ? ’ |
| 33 | The buyer may have wanted the computer to expand his business and he will be able to claim the resulting loss in profits , provided the seller knew or should have known of this ; that is , it was in the reasonable contemplation of the parties . |
| 34 | We should have known after this start that life with Holmes would never be dull . |
| 35 | There had been rather a mystery as to why he should have died at that particular time . |
| 36 | Now they 're saying things should have improved by this time next year . |
| 37 | In a matter as fundamental as that of the constitution of the church , God could not have allowed that error should have persisted over such a period of time . |
| 38 | The bishops on Charles 's and Louis 's side , taking a firmer line about oaths , asked why anyone should have to sin in this case , and repeated the proposal that a complete survey of the empire be made . |
| 39 | Nor can it explain why indeed the change should have happened at all : why did the speakers not simply retain /a:/ ? |
| 40 | The British Horse Society is anxious to find out why a third of them should have happened in this year alone . |
| 41 | It was the perfect cue for Gazzer to say : ‘ You should have thought about that before you shoved him in , should n't you ? ’ |
| 42 | Agnes again stopped herself from yelling , ‘ How do I know ! ’ and she was about to say , ‘ You should have thought about this before , ’ but this would have been a stupid reply , for when that urge was tearing at your body and there was a way of getting rid of it , would one stop to think ? |
| 43 | I should have thought about this before , he thought . |
| 44 | Should have thought of that before . |
| 45 | He said , ‘ Shall I get a bottle of wine ? ’ and Val said , disagreeably and truthfully , ‘ You should have thought of that some time back ; it 'll all go cold . ’ |
| 46 | ‘ He should have thought of that earlier . ’ |
| 47 | Ole should have thought of that but he 's too feeble for executive commands . |
| 48 | Hardy should have thought of that and found them some more suitable conveyance . |
| 49 | Louise : You should have thought of that before you started fooling around . |
| 50 | He should have thought of that risk ; he wondered if Sims had thought of it . |
| 51 | ‘ I 'm sorry , I should have thought of that . |
| 52 | I should have thought of that . |
| 53 | Sorry — I should have thought of that before . ’ |
| 54 | Surely she should have thought of this before breeding from Poppy . |
| 55 | Cherub , you should have thought of this mate . |
| 56 | More than enough work for at least one such practitioner must have existed in most towns , as there would have been for slaters , tilers and masons in those areas where building stone was in regular use . |
| 57 | Of course I did n't say anything , but I must have reacted in some way and it got through to him , because he seemed more relaxed from that point on . |
| 58 | " Then I must have applied to half of them in the last four years . " |
| 59 | Some mammalian families must have migrated to that continent and evolved there in isolation from the rest of the world . |
| 60 | The calories provided by the extra alcohol , sugar , and chocolate were some 500 to 600 per day , and as Alan did not gain weight during the experiment we know that his intake of good foods must have fallen by this amount , some 25 per cent of his normal daily intake . |