Example sentences of "[modal v] have [verb] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time those bills come in , we should have made enough to cover them . |
| 2 | He felt that she should have cared enough to confide in us , where really she cared too much and did n't . |
| 3 | I should have liked simply to disobey orders and stay in the trench . |
| 4 | It is worth mentioning , however , that one of the emerging conclusions of the Welsh Affairs Committee inquiry ( though it is still early days ) is that CPRW could and should have done more to alert the Welsh Office to departures from planning policy and should have created more of a public stink over such abuses . |
| 5 | Signor Fichera , whose vineyards and orchards were destroyed , left his cottage after hanging out a banner saying : ‘ Thanks to the government ’ , hinting at the anger among residents who say the authorities should have acted sooner to protect them . |
| 6 | We should have fought harder to play in the Scandinavian Open . |
| 7 | Most of the ballroom saw the despatch being given , and could tell from Webster 's dust-stained boots that he must have ridden hard to bring the paper to Brussels , but the Prince merely thrust the despatch into a pocket of his coat and went back to his scrutiny of the younger women . |
| 8 | Thus the corals and the stromatoporoids virtually ceased abruptly , though presumably some must have survived somewhere to produce the later faunas of Carboniferous times . |
| 9 | ‘ You must have studied hard to get where you are today , starting up your own company . |
| 10 | The fish must have come forward to give the line some slack . |
| 11 | Someone must have come indoors to turn that light on . |
| 12 | They must have worked fast to get it together , Charles thought . |
| 13 | Whatever John 's mother may have thought about his likely lack of application when he wanted to study music , once he decided to learn ballet he took it seriously and must have worked hard to make up for a late start . |
| 14 | Well I think we 'll have to find somewhere to lock it , well Danny says there 's places all over . |
| 15 | And er he says er he says , you know I 'll have to get somewhere to stay , is there anywhere where I could stay ? |
| 16 | If he wants to explain things to me he 'll have to come there to find me . |
| 17 | His parents might have done well to remember the ancient adage , ‘ Those whom the gods love die young ’ . |
| 18 | As events turned out , therefore , the management might have done better to realise that there are competing definitions as to what constitutes ‘ efficiency ’ . |
| 19 | The bourgeoisie remained unsuffering , and Marx might have done better to have the carbuncles professionally seen to . |
| 20 | I might have revived enough to struggle out , once he was gone . ’ |
| 21 | If she had known of how the Greeks slaughtered the bearers of bad tidings she might have taken longer to decide it was her duty , but , as it was , she saw no need to fear for herself , only for the person to whom she would relate the devastating news . |
| 22 | In particular , we could have done more to use private investment in the road-building programme . |
| 23 | She believes British Rail Engineering could have done more to protect her father from the danger of asbestos . |
| 24 | Other villagers claimed the local council could have done more to help : |
| 25 | Do you think though , perhaps you could have done more to keep them in the Party ? |
| 26 | Similarly , different nucleotides could have strung together to form primitive nucleic acid ; but it is difficult , now , to see how that primitive nucleic acid could have replicated itself efficiently , without the help of some primitive protein . |
| 27 | And who could have gone below to sleep when dawn broke to show the weird silhouettes of Suilven and Canisp against the glow of the eastern sky ? |
| 28 | If only could have stayed behind to hear this being said , he could 've taken a lot of messages back to his friends in government . |
| 29 | On the one hand , Nicholas could have worked positively to ease the way towards peaceful constitutional evolution . |
| 30 | George could have laughed aloud to think how , for years , their father had been ashamed of Tamar , but now he was proud to claim kinship . |