Example sentences of "[modal v] have done in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Labour government would start to do what the Tories should have done in the oil-rich years . |
| 2 | We then had a rousing Le Corsaire pas de deux , with Elvira Tarasov and Igor Zelensky dancing just as Ruzimatov should have done in the Diana and Actaeon , with technical bravura but putting the choreography and music first , and themselves only as the servants of dance as an art . |
| 3 | Since then I have done something I should have done in the first place : found a gap in the rushes only ten yards downstream where I can heave into the fish without pulling them into more weed . |
| 4 | So I did what I should have done in the first place , I put the wire hangers and small weights on the edges . |
| 5 | ‘ Probably what I should have done in the first place . |
| 6 | But he goes on , he goes on and the body of his evidence my Lord is to speculate as to what he would have done and what Mr should have done in the circumstances of this er case and reference is made to the professional conduct guide in paragraph three two . |
| 7 | In respect of in public services , it was a minefield for a long time and perhaps we did not react as we should have done in the early eighties . |
| 8 | The kitchen is particularly fascinating with its full array of cooking equipment looking much as it must have done in the 18th Century . |
| 9 | It stands solidly still , much as it must have done in the eighteen hundreds , though minus : |
| 10 | Certainly some of the productions that we are responsible for , as I have said , are controversial , and some of the public might not really want them and might dispute their validity , but I think what it is an indication of is the fact that people are short of money and have to make quite sure that they are getting the best value for what they are paying for and they ca n't afford to go to the theatre as regularly as they might have done in the past . |
| 11 | Even some Right-wing opposition politicians reckoned it was the best Mr Mitterrand could have done in the circumstances . |
| 12 | One — that ‘ pennant has told us more than perhaps one in ten thousand could have done in the time that he took . ’ |
| 13 | Further analysis of their data and of additional data for the period from 1970 to 1975 showed that , though the vote for the two main parties had declined in the 1960s , major party identification had not : in other words , electors — whatever they may have done in the polling booths — continued to express a sense of affiliation with one of the two main parties . |
| 14 | He was a good PTI , he made PT fun and did n't just stick to PT and running — but there was no messing about either and he doubled them across the barracks to the football pitch , Where in the next half hour they worked as hard playing football as they would have done in the gymnasium . |
| 15 | It would do so just as surely today , in the 1990s , as it would have done in the late 1950s . |
| 16 | If in refusing , he acted as a reasonable man would have done in the same position , because he entertained the same fears , having regard to the character of the proposed assignee , etc , the real purpose of the assignment , the effect of the assignment on the property or other property of the landlord , etc , the refusal will be upheld as reasonable . |
| 17 | Remarkably , the subsequent behaviour leaves the pulsar rotating more slowly after 50 days than it would have done in the absence of the glitch . |
| 18 | When Philip of Colombière 's nephew killed the niece of the bishop of Bayeaux , King Henry II 's court behaved as it would have done in the previous century in reconciling the parties by arranging a settlement between them . |
| 19 | The real problem is that there are situations where negative pecuniary externalities exist , and this means that co-operative R&D ventures may end up doing less R&D than independent firms would have done in the same setting . |
| 20 | To take one of the most outstanding examples mentioned by Bob Bocock in one of his books , I forget which one it is now , but in one of his books , Bob Bocock er , mentions that the doyen of mid-twentieth century sociology , Talker Parsons , who some of you perhaps may never of heard of , but er , you certainly would have done in the sixties and seventies , because he really was the major fi figure in Anglo-American social theory . |
| 21 | Mm say if you 're on the world , if you , if you 're a net importer , right , erm , and you 're buying your food commodities from the world market , you must have been rubbing your hands over the last fifty years cos you 're getting , you 're buying , you 're buying a food commodities will lower , lower prices than you would have done in the presence of free trade , cos there 's all this dumping and European surpluses , you know Come in |
| 22 | Capt Forgrave , 27 , of Wrexham , said yesterday : ‘ I was only doing what anyone would have done in the circumstances . |
| 23 | Which you would have done in the first place , Lowell thought , if you had n't been so sure that Rose was here . |
| 24 | I tried to work out what my father would have done in the same circumstances and came to the conclusion that he would have taken what he so often called ‘ a bold step ’ . |
| 25 | UTILITY — A small program which will do a single , simple job ; often performing a function that Windows ought to have done in the first place . |