Example sentences of "[modal v] have [verb] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ca n't understand why Heather should have wanted to dig up such stuff . |
| 2 | You should have to live looking over your shoulder all the time wondering about what will happen next |
| 3 | It was n't fair , just or right for the Signora to come before the hour appointed ; she should have been admitted by Giovanna herself and the keys should have remained hanging on their appointed hook ; the other set being in the pocket of Giovanna 's overall from which she now drew them and held them up making it clear that they would be relinquished only upon her death and then only into the hands of Signor Kettering . |
| 4 | It is a sad loss to this House that the right hon. and learned Gentleman should have decided to lay down the burden of representing the electors of Warley , West . |
| 5 | I should have liked to go on as we were , but nothing goes on , even for a short time , without making the kind of decision which was , in this case , clearly impossible . |
| 6 | It is particularly fitting that Underwood should have chosen to step down in a year when the president of the Rugby Football Union is Peter Yarranton , himself a former England player and RAF pilot , who will be at today 's game . |
| 7 | By the end of this eight-week programme you will know about your body 's requirements , and you should have managed to shake off those excess pounds . |
| 8 | One might well ask why the violinist Felice Giardini should have wished to take on this administrative burden , celebrated as he was as one of the principal virtuosos in London 's concert life . |
| 9 | Its officials may not have come to exactly the same conclusions as I did , but they should have tried to find out . |
| 10 | They shuffle out to a soft rhythmic crunching underfoot , reminiscent of how the boots of Napoleon 's legions must have sounded trudging back through the Russian snows . |
| 11 | How he must have aspired to rise up forcefully , his yearning impregnating the walls with a similar passion . |
| 12 | Presumably he must have arranged to fly back during that telephone call last night . |
| 13 | Niall might be free as far as the law was concerned , but he had been the injured party , the one left to pick up the pieces when the woman he must have loved walked out . |
| 14 | It 's a work that must have seemed to sum up the traumas of the war years and their aftermath for you ? |
| 15 | The survivors must have tried to live out their lives by hook or by crook , descending into despair and lunacy , their offspring — if any — mutating into warp-monkeys . |
| 16 | He wondered how many pints Sam must have imbibed to come up with it . |
| 17 | This 'll have to do to go on with . |
| 18 | So I said , well , we 'll have to start packing up at half past four because we got cement mixer to clean and all the |
| 19 | oh I 'll have to have look down there then , cos we buy 'em , now where do we get 'em from now ? , er Co-Op we got 'em from last time did n't we ? |
| 20 | It had the swoop and the lilt of something one might have heard blaring out of a Turkish café . |
| 21 | In that case , our malevolent might have decided to wait around on the off-chance that he would go to the kitchen or bathroom . |
| 22 | I also think that , realistically speaking , the Crown Prosecution Service letter disposes of the potentially troublesome question whether the authorities might have decided to follow up clues revealed by the primary disclosures on the part of the defendant . |
| 23 | CONSUMER confidence and spending were improving ahead of the decision by John Major to call an election , suggesting that the economy might have started to pull out of recession but for worries about the election outcome . |
| 24 | In particular they felt that they might have tried to cover up their worst failings and made a public show of only their more successful work . |
| 25 | I might have got worn out , the number of miles we walked and bins we excavated , only he sat on every bench we came across and stared into space . |
| 26 | Perhaps you or I might have got fed up with all the attention and been tempted to tell the crowds to go home and leave us alone . |
| 27 | If he had to be shifted to Ireland , why could n't it have been Dublin where he 'd at least have been nearer to Elizabeth and might have managed to hop over to England more often . |
| 28 | The upward spiral on which film budgets were set suggests that Rank might have had to go on losing money for a long time before hitting on a way to achieve a steady supply of sellable films . |
| 29 | There had been things Crevecoeur could have done to get out , such as take advantage of the open invitation to take up with Cab 's natro group . |
| 30 | ‘ I could have arranged to set off later if I 'd known . |