Example sentences of "[modal v] have [vb pp] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | You could say that with all the service Deane gets from the midfield he should have scored more than two ( as I say Lee 's got 4 & he gets hardly any service ! ) . |
| 2 | We 're changing the tape — we should have made more than one ‘ labour compilation ’ tape ! |
| 3 | She should have gone away when she had the chance . |
| 4 | should have gone soon as they got out of work . |
| 5 | It was a delicious quirk of fate that this situation should have arisen even as the legal action with Sting loomed on the near horizon . |
| 6 | On any sound military precept , the Russians should have withdrawn eastward until the mobilization of their limitless manpower had been achieved . |
| 7 | I sense that you are suggesting the County Council should have done more than write a paragraph or two |
| 8 | Cos he thinks he should have done better than that and he 's right he should of done better . |
| 9 | Cascarino should have done better when he shot weakly on the turn , but was unlucky two minutes later when he struck the bar with a superb volley . |
| 10 | He had only one more room to do , he said , and he should have finished long before this but he 'd been badly delayed in the car on the other side of the dining car , which he had in his care also . |
| 11 | I should have known better than to take the word of any of that crowd from Donovan 's Square . ’ |
| 12 | She should have known better than to think he would bring it to her , miserable sinner that she was . |
| 13 | And he should have known better than to have his secretary type it . |
| 14 | The policeman should have known better than to expect Duncan to fall for a cheap trick like that . |
| 15 | But I should have known better than to accept anyone recommended by you . " |
| 16 | He should have known better than to think Ben would not ask that question . |
| 17 | Devious devil ; she should have known better than to think she could fool him . |
| 18 | He should have known better than agree to support a magistrate whose hatred of gipsies was so well known . |
| 19 | This covert attitude of declaring oneself unable to conceive as possible an exercising of audacity which in fact really took place gives the impression that the speaker thinks that the persons who did the action should have known better than to try . |
| 20 | ( Stone 1988 : 38 ) ( " When Agamemnon does the unthinkable , i.e. brings his concubine home , something which he should have known better than to do … " ) |
| 21 | ( implies " he should have known better than to … " ) |
| 22 | ( Sun , 24 September 1975 : 26 – 1 ; in Erdmann 1982 : 99 ) ( implies that they should have known better than to cross gloves with Joe Louis ) |
| 23 | ( The Times , 13 June 1974 : 25.4 ; in Erdmann 1982 : 104 ) ( " Mr Benn has dared do something he should have known better than to do , given Prime Minister Wilson 's present hostility towards any statement that might upset private industry . " ) |
| 24 | ‘ I should have known better than to think you 'd back down . ’ |
| 25 | Cork , aiming to combine playing with a new career in management when his Bramall Lane contract expires next summer , added : ‘ I should have had more than two goals this season because I kept missing chances . |
| 26 | Shortly afterwards he went missing in the cauldron of the Ruhr , I only wanted to tell him he should have got more than 30 bob a piece for them . |
| 27 | Why it should have taken more than a year for this to soak in is unclear . |
| 28 | It was too large for me at that time , but over the next twelve months I must have grown considerably because , with wooden blocks fixed on the pedals , I was able to reach it in comparative comfort . |
| 29 | To photograph the house for the news last night the cameraman must have stood just where he had stood himself , on the edge of the lawn with his back to the cedar tree . |
| 30 | The kind milkman is now looking after the stray dog , which must have consumed more than 100 pints of milk , until a home can be found for him . |