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

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1 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 .
2 I should have made the connection sooner , given that the company was called Airborne Plc , but nobody 's perfect .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 It was a coincidence that , once again , Branson should have met the object of his romantic attentions at the Manor , early in 1976 .
6 ‘ I suppose we should have to ask the French for help .
7 This huge increase should have allayed the peasants ' suspicions of the new regime , but this was hot the case .
8 The jury has been told that locking pins which should have secured the gantry had failed .
9 Each qualitative foregrounding implicitly begs a question : what should have led the author to express himself in this exceptional way ?
10 When I explained , he said , ‘ You should have kept the money .
11 He should have kept the studio in time for some
12 My father said Eden should have kept the troops in Suez and only the British had moral integrity .
13 He should have kept the letter .
14 You shou , perhaps you should have kept the bag on it .
15 ‘ You should have ambushed the beast when you had the chance , ’ croaked Ferd .
16 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 .
17 When she later challenged the EP she was told she should have contacted the Education Welfare Officer ( EWO ) designated by the LEA as being the ‘ named person ’ .
18 Leaving aside the problem of what time period to specify , we should have to ransack the libraries of the world to find a complete list of published works written during the period .
19 Oh , she should have paid more attention to him when they lay close ; she should have absorbed the hollows and smoothness of his brow and learned him by heart .
20 Only when she was halfway there did she remember that this , after all , was n't Chipchester , where she had spent the last six months at college — nor even Athens , where at least the drivers and pedestrians expected to engage in constant warfare — and that perhaps she should have checked the traffic before crossing …
21 The Reds won the war because they had a good , disciplined army and also because the Whites could not co-ordinate their attacks , due to poor communications and were consequently defeated by the Reds without half the trouble they should have caused the Reds .
22 Even before Bruce 's penalty miss however , Mark Hughes should have saved the game for Manchester when heading a great chance wide in the 67th minute from another Giggs cross .
23 He concluded , however , that it was not a necessary precondition of a restitutionary order under section 6(2) or of a remedial order under section 61(1) that the person against whom the order was made , whether the contravener or the person ‘ knowingly concerned ’ in the contravention , should have received the money or property ordered to be restored to the investor .
24 By law , Paul should have received the directorship of the theatre and the rest of Dinah 's inheritance ; but as things stood , it was impossible , and she continued to administer the estate .
25 By now , you should have reached the stage when your potential as a successful recording artist is evident .
26 The arch-conservative , Senator Jesse Helms ( North Carolina ) , complained that the administration should have mobilised the US troops , based less than a mile from the Panamanian Defence Force headquarters , to help the rebels .
27 ‘ After a few minutes an embarrassed train driver told us the man who should have unlocked the gate had not turned up . ’
28 Although surprisingly few of our colleagues have died ‘ in the field ’ , it is nonetheless fitting that field-work should have assumed the character of a tribal ordeal or initiation rite the performance of which , under appropriate conditions , is virtually indispensable if one is to gain professional status .
29 Some considered it to Mosley 's credit that a man who had the ability to attain the highest office in government should have ignored the rules of the political game because of his devotion to principle .
30 After Desert Storm , many thought that the attackers should have shouldered the responsibility of occupying Iraq , restoring democracy and temporarily administering the country under some UN mandate .
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