Example sentences of "[modal v] have [verb] a few [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 | ‘ I should have thought a few minutes . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The proviso of the key must have raised a few eyebrows . |
| 8 | She must have seen a few sights in her time . ’ |
| 9 | She must have forgotten a few things in the holidays , like the time I pushed her in the school goldfish pond . |
| 10 | Mind you I heard he could hear it in the background so he must have got a few kids |
| 11 | ‘ I think I 'll have to have a few words with whoever has been saying this . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I might have to unbend a few things , though . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ There was no loss to the stores but it could have caused a few problems . ’ |
| 15 | The Government could have scored a few points and won some political friends . |
| 16 | A game 's a game , but you could have piled me up back there , and then you 'd have had a few questions to answer ! ’ |
| 17 | SUPER SAVER DAVID JAMES may have made a few mistakes but he is learning all the time , says Liverpool boss Graeme Souness ( inset ) . |
| 18 | I hope I may have given a few ideas and if anyone makes their fortune and buys a villa in the South of France , will you invite me for a holiday , please ? |
| 19 | He may have to wait a few years to enter a Tory Cabinet . |
| 20 | It also may have answered a few queries over which he may have pondered in his youth and then discarded to the rear of his mind for later consideration . |
| 21 | A senior commission official said last night : ‘ From a British point of view , Mrs Thatcher may have gained a few months before the crucial business of changing the Rome treaty gets under way but she now faces a cut-off date beyond which the other EC governments are unlikely to delay their acceptance of monetary union . ’ |
| 22 | I may have had a few words with her , but that 's all . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I got him a bit of coley , and it cost me what salmon would 've cost a few years back . |
| 24 | ‘ Maybe he would have played a few minutes more , ’ said Zoff . |
| 25 | I really would have to acquire a few pairs of stockings , and dispense with my poodle anklets . |
| 26 | Looking back , they would have done a few things quite differently , but they certainly did not conform to the view taken by some authorities that they encountered , that they are children who have ruined their lives and wasted their education . |
| 27 | If you had told me in advance , I would have prepared a few canapes for your arrival . ’ |
| 28 | Jocelyn on the other hand would have preferred a few irregularities in life and so was leaving to live in a battered wives hostel . |
| 29 | That would have punched a few holes in the City 's sang-froid , I can tell you . ’ |
| 30 | Moreover , CD-ROMs , the media the Data Discman plays , while hardly universally established , are by no means the radical innovation they would have seemed a few years ago . |