Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] have [verb] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I may have dozed off for a while . |
| 2 | I was expecting you , of course , but I must have dropped off for a few minutes . ’ |
| 3 | Maybe I should have hung on for a few days in there getting to grips with Alf Bundy 's ailments . |
| 4 | If I 'd been a union member I might have held out for a better offer or some redundancy money , but I was n't , so that was that . |
| 5 | Because when you do run across the road , you get to the other side , and you 're thinking , good gracious , that was a close shave , I 'll have to sit down for a minute , I think I 'll have a cup of coffee or something . |
| 6 | You only have to sit in there and you hear the rumours and the gossip that 's going around and the thing is , in the staffroom it 's always the bad kids that are talked about , never the good ones , which I suppose makes sense in a way , but as a new teacher , you come in , you hear these rumours like , I used to hear rumours about Kevin ( an Afro-Caribbean pupil ) and I thought , ‘ Oh , God , I 'll have to watch out for Kevin , everybody thinks he 's a trouble-maker and that means he 's bound to be in my class ’ , but I mean it 's not as simple as that , it really is n't … |
| 7 | I 'll have booked in for a course in Bristol starting in September — an art course , no one cares what art students look like — or drama maybe . |
| 8 | He 'll be busy , and I 'll have to walk around for a whole hour on my own . |
| 9 | I could have gone back for them . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Do you think I would have waited around for all this if I had ? ’ |
| 11 | Not everyone unfortunately has children so you may have to cast around for other members of the family . |
| 12 | If you wanted more money , you should have gone in for doctoring , academicking , police inspectoring or company secretarying . |
| 13 | Everything else you 'll have to fix up for yourself . |
| 14 | You 'll have to stand up for yourself . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Well , you 'll have to find out for yourselves , then . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ You 'll have to come back for it then , ’ he said , laughing . |
| 17 | She could have gone on for hours . |
| 18 | How she missed that time — those few weeks , which now she would have to live on for the rest of her life . |
| 19 | Sooner or later she would have found out for herself , and the interrogation would have been worse still if she 'd thought Rory was trying to keep her in the dark about such a momentous event in her life . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , she will have to make up for it afterwards ! |
| 21 | I 'd say we 'll have to do more than that , I 'd say we 'll have to go down for a week . |
| 22 | Of course , we 'll have to watch out for les flics . " |
| 23 | We might have gone on for years like that — me combing the streets for you while pretending to be there on other business ! |
| 24 | We could have held out for another three years and got over all the changes and benefited financially , but I do n't believe finance is the be-all and end-all of everything . |
| 25 | It will have to be for us at least twenty one days , that 's the absolute rock bottom minimum I would have thought therefore the French I suspect have us over a barrel and we would have to cough up for the enormous expenditure of an extra building at Strasbourg which is not needed erm as I understand it er that er view I savoured I do n't erm have the details of that . |
| 26 | ‘ They may have saved up for this holiday for years . ’ |
| 27 | Although the result was generally welcomed as a great triumph for the men , some ETS members and some political groups thought they should have held out for even more concessions . |
| 28 | Leith had grown fond of both of them , and , feeling sorry for them , she knew at the same time that this was something they would have to work out for themselves . |
| 29 | No one heard him come up but he must have got in for Ruthven to die and the white rose to be found . ’ |
| 30 | If you had n't made me hate you , it might have gone on for months . ’ |