Example sentences of "[modal v] have [verb] it [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Research by London Weekend Television , however , has shown that light ITV viewers , who can be expected to see a given commercial very few times , are just as likely to recognize it as those who should have seen it several times . |
| 2 | And this is a , should have drawn it that way round , |
| 3 | If would have thought we should have had it two years ago , if we 'd got moving , but we have n't . |
| 4 | For swiftly , and with such adroitness that Fabia felt he must have done it many times before , in no time , and before she could blink , Lubor had caught her in his arms . |
| 5 | The clock chimed in the hall : it must have done it several times but I had n't heard . |
| 6 | I thought the maid must have left it that way . |
| 7 | ‘ Looking back on it the plan could n't have been simpler but we must have rehearsed it forty times . |
| 8 | Yeah , well I 've only got the one I 've only got the one erm golly how long have I had that yellow must have had it four years or more I 've only worn it about three times I think it 's erm a telly mac and it 's a yellow one erm and it is a bit longer so all these go underneath it , quite well |
| 9 | He was almost sure he must have ditched it some place . |
| 10 | She was n't at all sure she wanted to be shown this short-cut through the woods , although Isabelle must have used it many times , when she was living at Les Hiboux and working at the château . |
| 11 | Well we 'll have to watch it this week and if er |
| 12 | I 'll have to pay it back Friday . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ We believe that we might have had it this year were it not for the election . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ But if those criminals were determined to kill the boy , and it seems with hindsight that they were , they could have done it any time , before or after receiving the diamonds , in the cellar , on the road or on some lonely Yorkshire moorland . |
| 15 | They could have done it last Friday put up with mind |
| 16 | Ruth had never tasted ice-cream before coming to America and now , like Anna , she could have eaten it all day long . |
| 17 | Well she goes June come on , could have had it next Friday I think something must be happening next Friday , she goes to Australia on the seventh well maybe that is next Friday Oh no it 's the is n't it ? |
| 18 | ‘ You could have held it two years ago , no problem . |
| 19 | Right , so , if it was going to cost me twenty pound a month for fifty thousand pounds worth of life cover , and I wanted to pay it annually , I 'd have to pay it twelve times , I 'd have to pay two hundred and forty pounds . |
| 20 | While the logic of Black 's view has been widely accepted , in practice many empirical studies have used some form of rate of return , although they may have given it another name . |
| 21 | I would 've seen it last week though . |
| 22 | His cockney friends would have called it honest endeavour in a dishonest world . |
| 23 | In the social dialectology carried out in Belfast , however , quantification was necessary : if it had been possible to do the work without quantifying , we would have done it that way ! |
| 24 | And once again Ric is attempting to go beyond the normal boundaries of cricket-writing : ‘ If I wanted to write a biography which was simply a record of CTB 's achievements I would have finished it some time ago . |
| 25 | Oh , then I ought to have done it last night . |
| 26 | ‘ Unless people prove they want the play-scheme and come to the meeting on Thursday night , we will have to cancel it this year . ’ |