Example sentences of "[modal v] have been [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So Madam I 'm asking you to say that these circumstances , this is the sort of case that should never have come before the court , it should 've been sorted out between the parties themselves , with the aid of their solicitors , and that it 's only the overreaction of the police in this particular circumstance that brings him before the court here . |
| 2 | I just love the way that kid must 've been standing out there for what , fifteen minutes ? |
| 3 | The dumb bastard who dreamed that one up should have been strung up by his balls . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ A fan behind the dug-out snarled at me and said I should have been killed along with my mate Brian Tiler and three others in a car smash , ’ he said . |
| 5 | Grandma used to say they were like chalk and cheese , and that they should have been shaken up together in a bag to get more of a mixture . |
| 6 | No luxury cruise around the Mediterranean could have been half as rewarding ; I should have been fed up at sea and embarrassed ashore , always conscious of the intrusion of our party as we were shown the sights . |
| 7 | Leeds were forced to play that third game against German champions Stuttgart , when the Bundesliga outfit should have been kicked out of the competition for fielding an ineligible player . |
| 8 | The page numbers of relevant sections should have been noted down together with the names of other potentially useful books and articles which the author has written . |
| 9 | Kate had come across them all her working life , from the solicitors who tried to get off known offenders to the social workers who stood up in courts of law and gave character references for people who should have been locked up once and for all . |
| 10 | Erm and at that ti but other than that , mind you I su I suppose that if , if I 'd been at home I should have probably been expected to be in , but I do n't think I should have been locked out . |
| 11 | As the tank 's filtration should have been turned down ( or removed in the case of strong power filters ) the base of the tank can be occasionally cleaned using airline to syphon out any mulm or other residue . |
| 12 | To have lost a game against the local rivals that should have been sewn up was bad enough . |
| 13 | It would be difficult to understand why an otherwise ordinary country woman should have been singled out and made the central character of the tradition if there was no truth in the story . |
| 14 | How very conceited to assume that , out of all the billions of billions of planets in the universe , our own little backwater of a world , in our own local backwater of a solar system , in our own local backwater of a galaxy , should have been singled out for life ? |
| 15 | It may seem strange that such an important and renowned healing centre should have been given up so easily and so early , and this may reflect the despoliation and depredations by members of the House of Constantine . |
| 16 | On the second day Smith was palpably out lbw but went on the score 42 ; Mujtaba was given out when the ball seemed to hit his boot ; and Gooch , I believe , should have been given out three times in the second innings . |
| 17 | In treating such a philosophical topic , the underlying principles should have been expanded on , rather than just being described . |
| 18 | She did not really care whether people listened or not ; she was interested herself in what she was saying , and she was quite happy to potter about from bench to bench watching people writing their diaries when they should have been writing up their experiments . |
| 19 | Looking coldly at the figures and at the Plafond Limité de Classement ( PLC ) of 13,000 kilograms per hectare , it would seem that most of Champagne 's production in those two years should have been sent off to the distillery . |
| 20 | Warnock claimed that both Andy Reece and Geoff Twentyman should have been sent off . |
| 21 | Cantona should have been sent off for poking Fairclough , BBC did n't show that . |
| 22 | Wallace looked menacing and was through at one point when Burrows hacked him down ( the scouser should have been sent off for that and a clear ‘ professional foul ’ in the second half against Deane ) . |
| 23 | I do nt know much about the second half , except that Hodges tried to maim dorigo with an elbow , and should have been sent off . |
| 24 | Koeman should have been sent off for a deliberate foul on Platt ( who actually got 5.9 for the skill in making it look much worse ) . |
| 25 | Scumtona should have been sent off — and as for the UEFA pannel banning him for 3/4 games — I think the refs phrase should be , oh Eric we do n't know why we love you but we do . |
| 26 | He should o he should a , he should have been sent off . |
| 27 | He much prefers to drive something that has been on the market for two or three years , reasoning that most of the initial problems should have been ironed out . |
| 28 | She should have been trying out her identity on friends around her own age , not in front of the world 's media . |
| 29 | This was before all this publicity , like , but she still should have been sussed out . |
| 30 | He was dropped by Prabhakar in the gully when 73 , and at 89 should have been run out by yards , but Srikkanth 's throw from close range missed the stumps and went for four overthrows . |