Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It looks really , I felt like saying to him , Sid you should have made that brass then I thought no , I wo n't .
2 Held , allowing the appeal , ( 1 ) that there was no rule that the Crown was exempt from giving a cross-undertaking in damages in law enforcement proceedings , but that the court had a discretion not to require the undertaking and that the discretion extended to other public authorities exercising the function of law enforcement in appropriate circumstances ; and that subject to the impact of Community law the courts should have exercised that discretion ( post , pp. 173D–F , 181G — 182B , G–H , 190D–E ) .
3 But I should have guessed that Hurley and his crowd would again put two and two together and make 22 .
4 John Morris , the board 's secretary , has already suggested to the World Boxing Council that , since Duran was inside the middleweight limit when he lost to Sugar Ray Leonard , he should have lost that title , even though the pair were fighting for the world super-middleweight championship .
5 I should have attended that Council meeting you know ? ’ he added more lightly , but I was busy , I sent my excuses .
6 I should have realised that genius , as some bright spark in the office said , has a lot to do with genes .
7 She meant I did n't girn or make a fuss , and meant I should have stayed that way .
8 Dickens published Sketches by Boz in 1836–7 , just twenty years after Jane Austen 's death , and it is not difficult to discover , by a comparison , why Kingsley should have regarded that book as a watershed in the depiction of fictional living space .
9 If anybody ever says woman to me , like " You should have seen that woman , " or , " Now there was a woman for you , " I would think of Audra Favor , thinking of her as Audra , too , not as Mrs. Favor the Indian Agent 's wife .
10 ‘ I mean that I should have died that afternoon , but the matchless Son of God took my place , God visited all his wrath , judgement and curses upon Jesus and therefore I can go scot-free . ’
11 ‘ I should have had that witch brought in ! ’
12 So the consideration of his uncles ' place in both the community and the synagogue calls to mind the fact that his father , as the first born son , should have had that pre-eminence .
13 If it is finding a good speech to interest and amuse the audience , then with preparation you should have solved that problem already .
14 Well , she was wild Now you should have brought that thing when Sue was talking about the Australia Barrier Reef .
15 That 's what we said yesterday you should have sold that car
16 He should have used that opportunity ; especially as new laws will anyway be needed before 1995 to implement European Community directives on investment services .
17 I was pretty mad and must have sounded that way .
18 It must have amused that bastard greatly to write back saying you were betrothed .
19 He is standing as he must have stood that afternoon on the shore of the Gulf of San Miguel , four-square and haughty , bucklered , helmeted , spurred , and looking out over the greatest ocean in the world .
20 But I must have missed that film .
21 ‘ It must have fallen that way .
22 We must have sensed that war was inevitable , as Birtwistle and myself had two feverish years in ‘ 38/'39 , when we made many hard ( in those days ) ascents , including a few pioneering routes .
23 Fernand wears his bleu de travail every day and he must have handled that rail umpteen times — the threads could have come from him .
24 I can well imagine how he must have looked that day , framed by the doorway of the vehicle , his dark , severe presence quite blotting out the effect of the gentle Hertfordshire scenery behind him .
25 So you must have left that room early int it ?
26 ‘ It must have happened that way , I suppose .
27 Mary must have forgotten that Mum could n't write .
28 He now sounded as though he were beginning a lecture and I thought he must have learned that intonation from his tutors .
29 I think he must have enjoyed that haddock .
30 He must have regretted that gift business . ’
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