Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He missed a few chances ; reckoned he should have scored a hat-trick . |
| 2 | I was glad of this ; I should have made every effort to see to her comfort in the cottage but I could imagine the thunderous impact that Préfleur would have on her . |
| 3 | Alison believes the letter should have been sent to the person who caused the crash and the local authority should have made every effort to see this was done . |
| 4 | A solicitor for the Robinson family said that the staff at the hospital should have made a call to the Southern General . |
| 5 | Jacques Tati should have made a film here . |
| 6 | He should have made a point of looking at the evening coverage before doing his own piece ; but he 'd seen the people they 'd sent to the press conference at the hospital , dismissed them as unlikely to do a decent job on it , and promptly forgotten them . |
| 7 | I should have made a point of following up his sickness , thought Cadfael , touched , but I thought he , of all people , would make good sure he got all the treatment he needed . |
| 8 | It is astonishing that he should have made a riposte about housing benefit being available to the poor for housing costs and to have given the impression that he was in favour of housing benefit . |
| 9 | I should have made a list . |
| 10 | The Government should have made a statement on the way in which the police national computer operates ; it should not have been necessary for me or the National Council for Civil Liberties to prise information from them . |
| 11 | Threat to insurers AS THE £1.1bn takeover bid by Australian Mutual Provident , Australia 's largest life insurer , gets underway for the Pearl Group , a new survey suggests that perhaps the Australians should have made a bid for a building society . |
| 12 | It was not , perhaps , as improbable as it sounds that McCarthy should have made a target of the Army . |
| 13 | Having been taught that , at a time when priests were not disagreed with , it is small wonder that John Kennedy should have involved himself , and thousands after him , in an anti-Communist crusade in Vietnam ; that Joseph McCarthy should have conducted his anti-Communist witch-hunts ; or that Casey should have made the fight against Communism his life 's work , even asking that money should be given after his death not for flowers , but for the contras . |
| 14 | I should have made the connection sooner , given that the company was called Airborne Plc , but nobody 's perfect . |
| 15 | The majority communists forced a vote through the Ukrainian Supreme Soviet on Nov. 14 to strip Khmara of his parliamentary immunity from prosecution , despite the fact that the lack of a quorum should have made the vote invalid . |
| 16 | In the light of the evidence that a full planning meeting was due to be held on 30 December 1991 , the justices should either have adjourned the application until after that meeting or should have made an order to last until shortly after that meeting . |
| 17 | ‘ the justices were under a duty to make any secure accommodation order only for as long as was necessary ’ — and again the guidance and regulations are referred to — ‘ In the light of the evidence that a full planning meeting was due to be held on 30 December 1991 the magistrates should either have adjourned the application until after that meeting or should have made an order to last until shortly after that meeting . |
| 18 | She said Judge Allen should have made an example of Clarke and she criticised an earlier sentence he received for a 1983 drink driving offence — a £150 fine and 18-month ban . |
| 19 | That such a natural loyalist should have met a traitor 's end reflects all Edward II 's failings as a political manager . |
| 20 | The date by which all supplies should have met the Directive 's standard was July 1985 , but little was done in the UK as the government hoped to negotiate a laxer standard . |
| 21 | It was a coincidence that , once again , Branson should have met the object of his romantic attentions at the Manor , early in 1976 . |
| 22 | ‘ I suppose we should have to ask the French for help . |
| 23 | The jury has been told that locking pins which should have secured the gantry had failed . |
| 24 | Each qualitative foregrounding implicitly begs a question : what should have led the author to express himself in this exceptional way ? |
| 25 | When I explained , he said , ‘ You should have kept the money . |
| 26 | He should have kept the studio in time for some |
| 27 | He should have kept the letter . |
| 28 | You shou , perhaps you should have kept the bag on it . |
| 29 | ‘ You should have ambushed the beast when you had the chance , ’ croaked Ferd . |
| 30 | Baker and Mercier ( 1982b ) found evidence of the extinction effect in only two of their six experiments and were able to offer no very convincing account of why these two studies ( which used a somewhat different test procedure from that used in the others ) should have generated the result they did . |