Example sentences of "[modal v] have [verb] an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it does not follow , as Strawson asserts that it does , that we should have to take an objective attitude to all behaviour just like the attitude we now take to behaviour we call abnormal . |
| 2 | unc After you have studied the see-saw problems you should have discovered an important rule about how to keep an equation in balance . |
| 3 | You should have bought an American dog with you something like a |
| 4 | ‘ You should have had an early night , ’ she commented . |
| 5 | It is ironic that those of us who want to live in an environment-friendly style , and are really ‘ on your side ’ , should have to fight an increasing plethora of restrictions and regulations designed , it seems , to discourage us from using rail at all . |
| 6 | It is ironic that those of us who want to live in an environment-friendly style , and are really ‘ on your side ’ , should have to fight an increasing plethora of restrictions and regulations designed , it seems , to discourage us from using rail at all . |
| 7 | You must have cared an awful lot about her to deliberately stay away from London because of her . |
| 8 | Exceptionally dashing in his polo clothes ( he was a ten-goal player ) , he must have struck an imposing figure at six foot four . |
| 9 | She said she was sure I must have missed an English Christmas abroad all these years . |
| 10 | For all he said about poetry being a ‘ mug 's game ’ , he must have felt an interior exultation at knowing that he possessed outstanding gifts . |
| 11 | ‘ It must have cost an awful lot , all this , ’ she murmured , looking around across the large expanse of land , the huge , dominating barn . |
| 12 | The formation of the commercial basis of the kingdoms is not uniform and geography must have played an important part in the speed with which they evolved out of the less commercial exchanges of primitive valuables between earlier corporate descent groups and cohesive political units . |
| 13 | As such he must have played an important role in the bank 's transformation into a fully-fledged central bank in the 1920s . |
| 14 | The poet James Fenton , who was stringing for The Washington Post and who must have cut an unlikely figure riding into Saigon on a victorious Viet Cong tank ( described in The Fall of Saigon , first published in Granta 15 and then included in All the Wrong Places ) , wrote a savage review of the book in the New Statesman describing Herr as a ‘ shooter ’ , rather than a reporter for Esquire . |
| 15 | It must have done an awful lot of damage everywhere else too . |
| 16 | We must have looked an odd bunch to any passing motorist catching us in his headlights . |
| 17 | His future success as one quarter of The Smiths must have seemed an impossible dream in those days . |
| 18 | Therefore he had taken what must have seemed an obvious step to protect himself . |
| 19 | Five years with them and he must have learned an awful lot . |
| 20 | At the Old Bailey , the defence argued that after such painstaking tests of public taste , their clients must have had an honest mind in relation to its subsequent exhibition . |
| 21 | ‘ It seems to me , ’ shrewdly , ‘ you must have had an unfortunate relationship to make you so prejudiced . |
| 22 | Indeed , it must have required an enormous effort for man to overcome his natural tendency to live like the animals in a continual present . |
| 23 | After all , the transportation of such huge and heavy slabs of rock , often over long distances , must have required an incredible investment of effort on the part of any society possessing only rudimentary technology . |
| 24 | Now I realized how over the centuries this window must have provided an incomparable panorama of the goings-on in the village . |
| 25 | But they must have taken an awful lot of barrels away . |
| 26 | He records Smart 's statement that he ‘ must have finished an unfortunate life in jail had it not been for the good nature of a Friend , who could not bear to see his tears ’ . |
| 27 | Wasim Akram finished with 6 for 67 and an uncontrollable grin , and must have felt that this , of all his dramatic performances , must have won an important match . |
| 28 | It 's probable they will come back , but if they do they 'll have to bid an awful lot more a second time |
| 29 | Many commentators predicted that a majority of women voters , regardless of party loyalty , would be alienated by a decision to overturn Roe v. Wade , and that this could damage Bush , who believed that abortion should be available only to rape victims or if the woman 's life was in danger , and whose judicial appointments , the latest of whom was Clarence Thomas , might have created an anti-abortion majority on the Supreme Court . |
| 30 | Accordingly , companies could find themselves in front of the Review Panel when an early discussion with the UITF might have saved an embarrassing discussion . |