Example sentences of "[modal v] have [verb] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a remark he should have reserved for an aging Peruvian marksman called Cubillas . |
| 2 | Those problems have not been solved — just as we said that they would not be — because the Government did not take the issue seriously enough and did not press as they should have pressed for the substantial reforms that were needed . |
| 3 | Erm but that 's if you just progr project forward where we are cos we used up in , in three months what we should have done for the whole year so you 've only got ta do that , so we 've done a hundred thousand pounds this first quarter and if you 've four more , three more quarters there 's another three hundred thousand pounds over budget . |
| 4 | He should have waited for a better moment instead of acting impulsively . |
| 5 | In the countryside , life must have continued for a long time as it always had done . |
| 6 | He must have worked for a long time in the garage . |
| 7 | I 'll have to go for a little walk . |
| 8 | I 'll have to go for the froggy . |
| 9 | A computer programme allows them to plan the food he 'll have to take for the 12 man crew on the Group 4 yacht . |
| 10 | Well I 'll have to stay for the next two years unless we go back to Lincoln . |
| 11 | If Verve expand any further , they 'll have to apply for a live music permit in the next door dimension . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'll have to look for a new posting . ’ |
| 13 | Only the day before I might have prayed for a stray round to puncture the car and my coffin and put me out of my endless misery . |
| 14 | The blow would have killed him instantly — at least , he might have lived for a few minutes in a technical sense , but he would have been unconscious and effectively dead . |
| 15 | I know the ‘ next steps ’ , i.e. when I will be contacted and when I might have to return for a second interview . |
| 16 | He might have to settle for a reserve place on Thursday . ’ |
| 17 | He had lost whatever little respect he might have had for the old guard of English political life . |
| 18 | You mean they could 've , they could 've gone for the Soviet style collectivization ? |
| 19 | What Harry Lime missed out on , though , was the fact that if he 'd gone Club 18–30 instead of Austrian Airlines , and taken a couple of friends in tow who were paying the full price , he could have copped for a massive sixty sovs off his bill , got a suntan into the bargain , and avoided coming to a very nasty end in the sewers . |
| 20 | They could have gone for a potential Test candidate — like Essex left-arm paceman Mark Ilott . |
| 21 | It would also have lengthened the plane , but the forces of the hauling system would have been correspondingly less , and an increase of speed could have compensated for the greater distance travelled . |
| 22 | Heseltine watchers could have wished for no clearer sign of his leadership intentions . |
| 23 | Of course it was too early in his life to be certain that the gods had called him , but I could have wished for no better career for him than that of a priest-administrator . |
| 24 | There was the Trojan war , in which thousands perished over the indiscretions of Helen and Paris , who — give or take a sun-lounger — could have passed for the ancient Greeks ' answer to Fergie and John Bryan . |
| 25 | However , the numbers were small and examination of the data showed that several of the Blacks were arrested on one day ( during riots ) and at least one was charged with robbery , probably with adults ; this one incident could have accounted for the larger percentage of Blacks going to the Crown Court . |
| 26 | Firstly , the council could have opted for a significant increase in the er I five allocation and to go on to see to identify a site in the local plan . |
| 27 | I remarked to my friend , ‘ You 'd have to wait for a long time to get a train from here , ’ he smiled and we both set off for the youth hostel down the road . |
| 28 | We 'd have to wait for the next one then . |
| 29 | or surely we 'd have gone for a different lot , |
| 30 | ‘ I 'd have asked for a final orgy myself , but each to his own . |