Example sentences of "[modal v] have [verb] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a remark he should have reserved for an aging Peruvian marksman called Cubillas . |
| 2 | He should have waited for a better moment instead of acting impulsively . |
| 3 | In the countryside , life must have continued for a long time as it always had done . |
| 4 | He must have worked for a long time in the garage . |
| 5 | I 'll have to go for a little walk . |
| 6 | If Verve expand any further , they 'll have to apply for a live music permit in the next door dimension . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'll have to look for a new posting . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I know the ‘ next steps ’ , i.e. when I will be contacted and when I might have to return for a second interview . |
| 11 | He might have to settle for a reserve place on Thursday . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | They could have gone for a potential Test candidate — like Essex left-arm paceman Mark Ilott . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | or surely we 'd have gone for a different lot , |
| 17 | ‘ I 'd have asked for a final orgy myself , but each to his own . |
| 18 | I 'd have cried , I 'd have brooded for a long time . |
| 19 | There the Millers may have lived for a short while . |
| 20 | Most of these , too , developed along existing paths , the paths that ran from village to village in Saxon times , though here and there they may have called for a new piece to complete the chain of paths . |
| 21 | Kenneth , last seen nineteen eighty two , lived in the Sleaford area , a retired senior nursing officer at Hospital Holbeach , er m may have married for a second time , Kenneth he 's got a son Ian Mark . |
| 22 | If you think the time may come when you may have to care for an elderly or disabled person in your home , there are also grants available for adapting housing . |
| 23 | If I 'd wanted to really zoom around the fretboard I would 've opted for a medium/short-scale bass with really light , roundwound strings . |
| 24 | Last Friday the civil servant in charge of government policy on radioactive waste management reiterated Whitehall 's position that a solution to the disposal issue would have to wait for a future generation . |
| 25 | Even the Government President of Upper Bavaria felt compelled to admit that the relief about Hitler 's survival was not unanimous , but that ‘ part of the population would have welcomed the success of the assassination attempt in the first instance because they would have hoped for an earlier end to the war from it ’ . |
| 26 | She 'd never known any details ; she did n't know if the accident happened early on , or whether she would have to sit for a long time just waiting for the inevitable . |
| 27 | It would take about er it would take about three days like to really give it and then it would have to lie for a wee while to harden you know , the polish to harden . |
| 28 | CARL Lewis , who bleated because he was n't allowed to run in the Olympics against Linford Christie , has ducked out of the World Cup in Cuba where they would have met for a 100 metres showdown later this month . |
| 29 | These factors alone would have made for a rapid shift between free and unfree populations ; but in many parts of Europe the relation between them was complicated by local custom and legal variety . |
| 30 | as well as a development charge to the Board , is still paying less in the total cost of his house than he would have to pay for an existing house with vacant possession . |