Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [verb] [pron] to " in BNC.

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1 ‘ You should 've sent me to a decent school , ’ said Camille .
2 Had to be paid , it ca n't be paid by the twenty eighth it 's er you know well if I could 've got hold of David or er , Andrew , I was gon na give Andrew a right bollocking for just pushing it in and he should 've sent it to er , Michael , Michael 's just got it shoved in front of his nose a in Edinburgh .
3 It could and should have led him to great opportunities .
4 And I should have kept it to myself .
5 He should have referred it to Management and Personnel over in Great George Street and let the Security Division sort it out .
6 Before I go to sleep I wonder about whether I should have said anything to him about Mr Archer and his phone calls and Ares .
7 Furthermore , since I disagree with the view of the Divisional Court on this point in Ex parte Handscomb , but the Home Secretary was obliged for the time being to follow it , there is little logic in saying that he should have extended it to mandatory cases .
8 That should have alerted me to the fact that Dr Tom Courtney was not as he seemed .
9 Marx 's recognition of the specificity of motives under capitalism should have alerted us to this problem .
10 It is a consideration which I should have applied myself to the assessment of general damages to favour this plaintiff .
11 Squaring her shoulders , she said tersely , ‘ I really do n't see why I should have to explain myself to you .
12 Police team manager David Rees said : ‘ We should have switched him to a Saturday afternoon shift .
13 Why he should hold them , why he should so strangely realize them , and above all , why he should have chosen me to be his solitary audience of one , remained a total mystery .
14 Although I know that in these matters there is almost no limit to what people will do , I am horrified that Victoria should have subjected herself to an Aids test and — as I have heard happens — the offers of emotional counselling and financial advice .
15 His own fault , he should have left it to the river police who had more experience of that sort of thing , but he had felt responsible .
16 Should have told him to his face .
17 You should have dedicated yourself to bringing up your child … . ’
18 it , they should have reported it to you !
19 All in all , it is in no way surprising that Nietzsche should have put them to one side soon after writing them at the turn of the year .
20 The headmistressy tone should have reduced him to an ill-behaved schoolboy .
21 ‘ Oh , you should have brought her to me long before , long before , Alida .
22 ‘ Or they should have sold you to some terrible household where you 'd have been treated like a dog .
23 ‘ You should have taken her to the clinic , Rachaela , ’ she said , without accusation .
24 Maybe I should have taken you to Calypso 's Cave , over on Gozo , ’ he added mockingly , running his hands down over her hips and closing the gap between them so that every hollow and curve came into contact with the steely wall of his legs and stomach , ‘ where the goddess Calypso managed to detain Ulysses for seven years … ’
25 The low price of sugar before 1690 , the dangers of war after 1690 , the Company 's inadequate provision for depreciation , and the planters ' unwillingness to pay their debts , might between them have ruined the Company in any case , but the end of the monopoly must have contributed something to the collapse .
26 ‘ So , if Jordan put them there he must have wanted them to be found — why ?
27 It must have transmitted itself to the patients , for even they gave up after their initial attempts at jollity , and by mid-morning a definite air of gloom seemed to have settled over the place .
28 He must have worried himself to death just because he was afraid to tell me . ’
29 The same scenario must have presented itself to Randy , Mitch and Noel .
30 Dad must have said something to him about it .
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