Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [verb] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Microsoft one plugs into a serial port you may want to use for a modem , while you have to hunt for a mouse to fit into the IBM PS/2 socket . |
| 2 | If you think you do n't qualify , you may need to apply for a divorce in the ordinary way and you should consult a solicitor . |
| 3 | If the purchaser is a listed company it may need to apply for a listing of the consideration shares . |
| 4 | Bill thought I 'd died on him the other night cos I was , you know , me breathing and everything , and then all of a sudden I must 've relaxed for a bit and not needed to breathe and he give me a shock he says God I thought you were dead . |
| 5 | He should have gone for a walk on the Downs or gone shopping in the town for antiques , or spent the morning browsing in bookshops . |
| 6 | ‘ If they thought the children were in danger they should have gone for a care order in the first place , ’ Levy said . |
| 7 | Overturning this residence order the Appeal Court was clear Nottinghamshire SSD should have used the Act 's public law provisions from the outset — it should have gone for a care order or a supervision order , enabling social workers to oversee the children 's welfare . |
| 8 | Before LGCM took up its office in the tower of St Botolph 's , Malcolm Johnson should have applied for a faculty . |
| 9 | It was inevitable therefore that she should have looked for a career in motor racing — at least that was what she told herself . |
| 10 | They should have looked for a two-bedded , well-equipped flat in Norwich or in a convenient village close to the shops and post office , and to a church , of course . |
| 11 | It annoyed her intensely that she should have thought for a moment that the dreadful feeling she 'd experienced when he 'd told her he had an engagement was jealousy . |
| 12 | Soon after he came to power he personally led an expedition against the Shanqalla negroes on the Sudan border , and my father affirmed that the slaughter there must have satisfied for a time even his craving for blood . |
| 13 | He thought that he had heard the house door close : McAllister must have left for a stroll , or perhaps even a visit up West , and it would be safe for him to leave the surgery where he had been reading Mr H. G. Wells 's scientific romance The Time Machine , and return to the comfort of his armchair . |
| 14 | HARRISON Ford must have wished for a second take during a speech in London to promote his new film , The Fugitive , based on the hit 1960 television series starring David Janssen . |
| 15 | ‘ That 's awfully kind of you , and I should love to come for a couple of days , if I may . |
| 16 | You must learn to ask for a deposit when you take an order and never , never let a garment go without the balance in your hand . |
| 17 | Before you visit the Church of St Clement and the Clementinum , you might like to stop for a cup of coffee at the House of the Golden Snake . |
| 18 | I thought you might like to stop for a coffee . ’ |
| 19 | I also think that before sitting in judgement on Dr Hari 's ‘ uncritical use of the concept of ‘ normality ’ ’ , a social scientist of Dr Oliver 's calibre might stop to think for a moment about the social context in which those remarks were made . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , you 'll have to stay for a cup of tea , then , ’ he said . |
| 21 | ‘ The thing is we 'll have to do something or we 'll find we 'll have to work for a living and we do n't want to do that . ’ |
| 22 | In one bookshop in Kent you might have imagined for a moment that you were actually in a teacher-training college library . |
| 23 | They looked after each other , that was all , as each of them might have cared for a pet and been solicitous for its well-being . |
| 24 | I might have to go for a recall . |
| 25 | Seth 's thin lips assumed a configuration that might have passed for a smile . |
| 26 | The list of British craft union leaders of this period is filled with men who worked for a spell in the United States or somewhere else overseas , as they might have worked for a spell in Newcastle or Barrow-in-Furness . |
| 27 | The FRES estimates that their members might have had about 60,000 temporaries on the payroll at any one time in 1985 ( a figure broadly consistent with the LFS data ) , but that some half a million persons might have worked for an agency for some period in the course of that year ( interview with FRES ) . |
| 28 | He might have shaved for a match , thought Perdita ; the girl in the petrol station must have a skin like garlic sausage . |
| 29 | ‘ After London , I 'll go to train for a while in Boulder in the United States and start preparing for the Olympics . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Much as I 'd like to go for a hat trick , my sweet , I have to admit that I 'm not Superman . |