Example sentences of "[modal v] have [verb] [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | It puzzled him beyond measure that the boy should have stumbled upon this private area . |
| 2 | What crime have we committed that we should have to live in this way ? ’ |
| 3 | Indignation surged up within her — that he should have to live like this . |
| 4 | Because you should have you should have heard by this time . |
| 5 | You should have seen to this . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ There 's a question I should have asked before this , Steve . ’ |
| 7 | The TAC system should have provided for this , but the latest estimates of existing stocks were only 78,000 tonnes of cod and 81,000 tonnes of haddock , Holden 's report claimed . |
| 8 | ‘ I have that to tell you that I should have told before this , since it has to do with the issue that is now in dispute among all here . |
| 9 | You really should have known about this , should n't you ? ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | We should have known after this start that life with Holmes would never be dull . |
| 12 | Now they 're saying things should have improved by this time next year . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The British Horse Society is anxious to find out why a third of them should have happened in this year alone . |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | I should have thought about this before , he thought . |
| 17 | Surely she should have thought of this before breeding from Poppy . |
| 18 | Cherub , you should have thought of this mate . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ Eve must have felt like this on the way east out of Eden , ’ she thought . |
| 21 | It is not only me , I think of all the millions who must have lived like this in the war . |
| 22 | Old enough , certainly , to brood upon things , and too young to make much sense of the sights and sounds he must have seen in this dismal little room . |
| 23 | The house must have looked like this , he thought , when his parents first arrived , more than thirty years ago . |
| 24 | My second uncle must have slept in this room . |
| 25 | But first you 'll have to deal with this man and woman to satisfy yourself one way or the other about them . |
| 26 | No you 'll have to deal with this one because the other one has not been moved yet . |
| 27 | I 'm afraid I only have five minutes so come in and we 'll have to go through this very quickly . ’ |
| 28 | and I said well I want it on but he said you 'll have to go for this . |
| 29 | I suppose I 'll have to go to this Sheldrake man for my pigs . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ That 's possible — he knows I 'll be looking for him — but he 'll have to remain in this country until he can collect his legacy , and by then he 'll expect me to have given up . ’ |