Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] have [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That relics of them should have survived for such a vast period of time seemed even more difficult to believe . |
| 2 | The times are noted in.my diary and , if they are accurate , I must have survived for several days in succession on as little as one or two hours ' sleep per night . |
| 3 | Well then I must have cried for two hours and |
| 4 | Yes you did it was er the advertisement I 'd seen or very similar in the Scotsman newspaper and I must admit when he got all the information I thought damn I should have gone for that myself . |
| 5 | something else that could be quite actually misleading might sleep , be very sleepy , difficult to wake , so if you 've got the baby and you think your baby 's due for a feed and it did n't take very much at the last feed , you ca n't wake it up you should n't think oh well I 'll have to wait for another four hours , beginning to get worried so if the baby 's difficult to wake if it 's difficult to feed not sucking very well if the baby 's cold to touch and then there 's something which is very , very misleading , these babies can have bright red cheeks and bright red hands and feet and if you look at them you think oh they must be warm because they 're red |
| 6 | ‘ I take second place to your work , and I 'll have to settle for that , I suppose . ’ |
| 7 | Well , I know in the interview you did with Patsy Kensit she gave herself a 4 so I 'll have to go for 2 . |
| 8 | That 's what I 'll have to get for these chairs |
| 9 | ‘ I 'll go back to my dad 's business until Christmas but then I 'll have to look for another job , hopefully I 'll be able to stay in golf . |
| 10 | I 'll have to look for another job , but there 's nothing suitable in this area . |
| 11 | The old scribe would shake his head : ‘ I could have tried for 20 years and still not come up with an opening paragraph like that , ’ he would say . |
| 12 | Our quarry secured a table in the far corner and , as soon as I glimpsed him , I could have laughed for sheer joy . |
| 13 | ‘ You said , ’ said Jay , real B-movie melodrama here , kid ! ‘ you said I 'd have to decide for both of us . |
| 14 | And I would have budgeted for that in my own business otherwise it would n't come . |
| 15 | You know if this was my business , I would have budgeted for this amount of advertising to be ab I mean you ca n't sit it by getting at home er you ca n't get it by sitting at home . |
| 16 | My plan assumed that I would have to work for these by actively seeking ideas . |
| 17 | to forty or lower , I would have thought for this sort of plan , the majority . |
| 18 | Just — different , because you 'd be tied up elsewhere , and I would have to look for other friends . |
| 19 | In that case , I would have paid for all the drinks , would n't I ? |
| 20 | I would have sighed for human nature , had it not been for the excellence of my trout and the wine which accompanied it . |
| 21 | ‘ I would have settled for that before I went out . |
| 22 | " The Danube , close to where I live , is not tidal , so that I shall have to rely for this information upon your charming daughters . " |
| 23 | These are , I hope , the last Darwin books I shall have to read for some years ( unless of course Sydney Smith produces one ) . |
| 24 | ‘ I shall have to look for another job before too long , though . |
| 25 | Galleries had to be cleared 36 times , which must have accounted for some 35 minutes delay . |
| 26 | Public-sector housing provision , which might have allowed for greater mobility , declined in the 1970s and 1980s . |
| 27 | In the apparent absence of identifiable buildings , market-places can only be inferred from the presence of large open areas near the centres of towns , which could have served for periodic markets and fairs . |
| 28 | three years ago , they actually announced first round dates which would have allowed for such a break and only changed their mind after being petitioned by a group of players who had been persuaded by ATP to say they were unhappy to play immediately after the Open . |
| 29 | On 26 May Mozart appeared at court before the King of Prussia , a keen amateur cellist , who may have asked for some quartets . |
| 30 | You may have to wait for one or two things but you know like like copy sometimes but I did n't used to send them s erm er contracts in unless they had everything . |