Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Mark Edwards for Bicester should have scored after good work by John Thorne and Barry Cooper , but he only half hit his shot and keeper Whittington saved .
2 I have you pick up Mundi from the police station and deliver him to Heartbreak Hotel where he should have met with certain extinction .
3 In any case , the track record of computer applications — missed cutover dates , greater costs , fewer benefits , and designs which seem to be very different from that promised — should have led to reduced salaries and status , not the opposite .
4 In retrospect , the ref should have blown for full-time at this point .
5 Within the State Department it has been argued that two competing strategies — one ‘ Asian-oriented ’ and the other ‘ Europe-oriented ’ — had emerged and that the critical question was whether the US should have insisted on French concessions to Vietnamese nationalism as a condition of US support .
6 The army was all right , but then I should have gone into agricultural life .
7 he should have gone to private school should n't he , really but then
8 I should have gone to medical school . ’
9 Given the traditional English attachment to the extravagant version of the judicial independence doctrine , it is perhaps not surprising that even these modest calls for reform should have fallen on deaf ears .
10 Within the next five years we should have moved into new ( larger ? ) premises designed around a more ergonomic layout than the present facilities .
11 If there is a shortfall of Catholic school provision in an area , it has never been accepted that Catholic pupils should have to go to non-Catholic schools .
12 I should have transferred to pastoral a while back .
13 This they did not do and they should have ascertained by sticking writing into the National Westminster Bank to confirm that sufficient funds were available for the completion of the proposed transaction and that the terms upon which this finance was to be made available had been agreed .
14 It is not immediately obvious why moral campaigns should have developed in post-war Britain .
15 There was no particular reason why he should have acted as honest broker in this affair , but he had taken it on , and had been quite pleased with himself when he seemed to have brought things off .
16 Erm even if we 're wrong in that then they should have looked at alternative positions within the company which did n't require you to drive erm that 's the basic advice at the moment .
17 ‘ When Postine next revives , her brain activity should have returned to normal . ’
18 It is wrong that we should have to reply on voluntary information in such an extremely important matter .
19 In her view , past promotions should have focussed on individual sections of the population instead of trying to interest everyone at once .
20 Did it have to be on this evening that Kate , that notorious hedgerow flirt , should have come in early to steal his mission of mercy and love ?
21 A hundred years from now , the march of the physical sciences — oh , Albé , you should have talked to old Erasmus Darwin about that subject !
22 Why , this woman should have bathed in pink champagne .
23 It is hard to see why these considerations should have changed under mass culture .
24 Her humanity was something useless to her , something that came from the Denver NoGo and which should have died in Spanish Fork with Andrew Jean and the others .
25 On it a pavilion was built , joined by separate bridges to the French and Spanish banks of the river , so that neither minister should have to pass through foreign territory .
26 And most of the passengers , she thought , must have relied on similar thoughts to see them through .
27 Swindon Town must have felt like humpty dumpty in the first half … they had a bad fall against Birmingham City … took a real tumble …
28 Unlike the Mantuan and Ferrarese madrigalists , Marenzio composed mainly for the pleasure of the performers themselves , not for courtly audiences listening to brilliant executants , though he did make some essays in the three-upper-part style associated with the Ferrarese ladies , notably the exquisite ‘ Hor chi Clori ’ in his Sixth five-part book ( 1594 ) , and he must have reckoned on good performers to tackle the chromaticisms of ‘ O voi che sospirate ’ ( Book II , 1581 ) .
29 Then he sprang savagely on top of him , and grappled him by the throat — as once he must have grappled with little William .
30 The Kilchoman bards , Duncan and Charles Macniven , must have written about fellow Ileachs ; what has Nigel MacNeill to say in " Neniae " ( 1872 ) ?
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