Example sentences of "he [vb mod] have [vb pp] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | He ought to have known that anyway . ’ |
| 2 | Lord Denning has written that the whole of the English law of criminal negligence , and indeed the biggest change in civil law this century , derives from the commandment to love thy neighbour enunciated by Lord Atkins in 1932 , when he ruled that , even if a man can not love his neighbour , he must still refrain from harming him , and that in law his neighbour was anyone who was so closely and directly affected by his actions that he ought to have had that in mind when he acted . |
| 3 | He should have done that before instead of insisting on our groping our way up the Pan-Am Highway in darkness and bad visibility . |
| 4 | ‘ He should have done that in the first place , and I should have thought about what I was doing instead of just floating along with whatever he put to me . |
| 5 | Mr Lamont has stuck to his public spending target of £244.5 billion but he should have increased that . |
| 6 | It 's the I not , I mean he should have grouted that little bit and he should n't have put |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He should have used that opportunity ; especially as new laws will anyway be needed before 1995 to implement European Community directives on investment services . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Fernand wears his bleu de travail every day and he must have handled that rail umpteen times — the threads could have come from him . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He now sounded as though he were beginning a lecture and I thought he must have learned that intonation from his tutors . |
| 13 | He must have regretted that gift business . ’ |
| 14 | I think he must have enjoyed that haddock . |
| 15 | He must have got that off the bolt . |
| 16 | Then I think : he 'll have worked that out as well , so he 'll expect me to go to the car . |
| 17 | I gathered that he 'd been around in some pretty exciting — oh , do you mean he might have made that up , too ? |
| 18 | So if some 500 million years ago , an astronaut , from some other planet passed near the earth , he could easily have noticed in the blue seas , a few new and mysterious turquoise shapes ; and from them he might have guessed that life on earth had really started . |
| 19 | Rufus wondered if he might have invented that part because he had so much to do with wombs in the course of his own daily life . |
| 20 | He did not flatter himself that he might have had that effect on her , but he did wonder what course their liaison would take . |
| 21 | Clare was the great exception , an articulate peasant , and he might have described that world for us in all its natural beauty and its deep associations for the human race — twelve or thirteen centuries of unbroken continuity — but he came almost too late for this kind of England . |
| 22 | ‘ He could have done that easily . |
| 23 | And I felt absolutely horrified , devastated to think that he could have done that sort of damage and just walked away he did n't even have to pay for the damage he 'd done . |
| 24 | That they did not do and now the leader of the council said well they 're trying to get down to the standard spending assessment at last , he could have done that a long time ago , you have had nothing but excess expenditure proposals on behalf of this city for many , many years . |
| 25 | I wished he could have seen that . |
| 26 | He could have developed that and it would have been tremendously useful to him . |
| 27 | It follows that if the buyer had paid he could have recovered that money . |
| 28 | I , he could have had that straight on the paper . |
| 29 | When he opens his mouth , a valve closes to prevent him swallowing when he 's underwater , and he could have ejected that medicine if he had wanted to . ’ |
| 30 | Lukic made a couple of brave and decisve dives to feet ( I do n't think he 'd have done that last season ) |