Example sentences of "[modal v] have [verb] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By week 3 , you should have lost a few pounds — at least four , possibly as many as eight — and you may notice a number of minor health problems have begun to improve . |
| 2 | The first 10–15 minutes should have seen a few goals in the net for Leeds . |
| 3 | My worry about the half is that we should have had a few goals in , rather than just the one . |
| 4 | In that particular case , the Community should have negotiated a common fisheries policy by the end of 1978 , by virtue of the 1972 Act of Accession . |
| 5 | ‘ I should have thought a few minutes . |
| 6 | She 'd never had a weight problem , of course , but she must have lost a few pounds over the past few days , because the waistband of the shorts she was wearing this morning — which she had purchased in New York only last Saturday — was already far looser than it had been . |
| 7 | He would never understand how she could memorize all those complex , impossibly long poems , yet forget the words of a simple song she must have heard a thousand times or more . |
| 8 | The mill has a large belt wheel at the second floor level and , at such a height , must have presented a few problems with the fitting of the drive belt . |
| 9 | The proviso of the key must have raised a few eyebrows . |
| 10 | He must have waved a thousand times , and it was barely ten o'clock . |
| 11 | I 've been family member for twelve years and must have seen a thousand children , and of those , barely fifty had both their natural mother and father ! |
| 12 | She must have seen a few sights in her time . ’ |
| 13 | But on a rainy March afternoon in 1988 it must have seemed a million miles from home . |
| 14 | She must have forgotten a few things in the holidays , like the time I pushed her in the school goldfish pond . |
| 15 | ‘ I think I must have aged a dozen years today , ’ she said . |
| 16 | The phrase , which was one she must have used a hundred times to visiting parishioners in ordinary times , took on a poignant inadequacy in the context of the murder of her husband . |
| 17 | He must have taken a thousand pictures with people . |
| 18 | Between the Arch and the back of the Admiralty proper runs a small unnamed side-street which I must have passed a hundred times without really noticing . |
| 19 | Mind you I heard he could hear it in the background so he must have got a few kids |
| 20 | ‘ I think I 'll have to have a few words with whoever has been saying this . |
| 21 | Now the Child Support Agency says he 'll have to pay a hundred pounds a week . |
| 22 | He eyes me , thinking that , although I might have done a few things in the Arctic , I am still a tiny lad without any fat ; he decides that it will be just a few minutes . |
| 23 | She had perhaps a few spoonfuls of oil ; she was told to pour those minute contents of her jar into jars that might have held a hundred times as much as she had . |
| 24 | I might have to unbend a few things , though . ’ |
| 25 | Voluntary organisations like the Rainer Foundation are at last being listened to and boroughs that ten years ago might have had a dozen children 's homes now have only a couple . |
| 26 | ‘ Because you have a face that might have launched a thousand ships . |
| 27 | Jeanette Howse of the Didcot Railway Centre explains that Kenneth 's popularity means they could have invited a thousand guests . |
| 28 | ‘ There was no loss to the stores but it could have caused a few problems . ’ |
| 29 | The Government could have scored a few points and won some political friends . |
| 30 | We might even be able to evolve an exact reconstruction of a dodo by selectively breeding pigeons , though we 'd have to live a million years in order to complete the experiment . |