Example sentences of "[modal v] have [verb] a [noun sg] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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1 | Perhaps we should have written a chapter explaining our reactions to critics such as Brian Doyle or to books such as Terry Eagleton 's Criticism and Ideology ( 1976 ) , but I doubt whether the Working Group would have easily reached agreement . |
2 | You must have opened a file using OPENOUT , OPENIN or OPENUP before you use this statement . |
3 | Before you use this statement , you must have opened a file using OPENOUT or OPENUP . |
4 | From the length of it , she must have had a truck waiting outside the check-out . |
5 | The Waldron City Herald night editor must have had a fit trying to decide which one got the three inch banner . |
6 | Lavenham , which must have had a population approaching 1,000 and ranked as one of the dozen or so richest towns in the kingdom , went into decline following the death of the great clothier Thomas Spring in 1523 . |
7 | A very weird man — who , if The Pistols had stayed together , could have made a fortune flogging those snaps to a Sunday dreadful . |
8 | He realised that he was , in fact , looking at a man , so heavily clothed , hatted and booted in furs that he could have made a fortune doing tricks at the Glasgow Fair . |
9 | ‘ You should have let me know you were coming earlier , I 'd have had a car waiting at the airport for you . ’ |
10 | You 'd have to have a sensor going down the corridor and one in the back because they 'd come in the back , they would n't come through the |
11 | On the other hand , people whose words are not answered may have to spend a lifetime screaming for what they want or need , convinced that only if they demand loudly , cajole , beg , bully or threaten , will they obtain what they want . |
12 | Police want to interview anyone who was in the wine bar on Wednesday evening who may have seen a woman drinking with a man . |
13 | I thought that , in spite of the noise of the birds , I would have heard a hammer going down there along the cliffs . |
14 | But most would have sent a holidaymaker scurrying for his siesta . |
15 | I do n't know what possessed me to do so but I started twitching the squid like I would have done a deadbait piking when suddenly the rod thumped over ! |
16 | I think Paul Reaney would have had a job settling in to the defence last year . |