Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [verb] [art] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I 've got ta get some cornflakes today , my Gary must 've used the last few this morning . |
| 2 | It was ironical that he should have made a magical 153 against Notts , while England 's batsmen floundered at Old Trafford . |
| 3 | Of course we now know that the intelligence Ultra was providing should have made the Allied High Command — too complacent and overconfident — much more wary of committing their lightly-armed airborne forces to Operation Market Garden . |
| 4 | It is quite understandable that contemporaries , whatever their sympathies , should have viewed the Spanish Civil War in such cosmic terms . |
| 5 | By now John should have become the first 40-year-old to break four minutes for the mile . |
| 6 | It is ironic that office building should have become the latest indirect victims of IRA terrorism through increased insurance premiums because , historically , the record of claims made by landlords or tenants has been extremely good . |
| 7 | It is hardly surprising that the reign of Napoleon I , an era of warfare on an unprecedented scale , should have seen the first tentative moves in this direction . |
| 8 | Mr Alan Bleasdale , author of the Channel Four serial GBH , which the four jurors say should have won the best serial prize , joined the row , saying he wanted to share the award . |
| 9 | A hard sweep of his right hand , the edge smashing into the big man 's neck , should have felled the Latin American , but hidden beneath his poncho he wore a studded leather collar . |
| 10 | The wh the whole point is Steve , when it comes down to basic facts , it should have had a proper sealed unit chiller on it when it was new . |
| 11 | For the young , there must have existed an inherited inborn enjoyment of life , for it can fairly safely be assumed that the pleasure experienced by them when at play , so obvious to modern man , must have been observable all through evolution . |
| 12 | I must have missed the next few sentences . |
| 13 | The segments of lemon embedded in clear apple jelly must have made a ravishing little dessert dish : |
| 14 | You were John Mayall 's longest-serving side man , and must have seen a good few guitarists and drummers come and go … |
| 15 | Lucy Lane interrupted , authority in her voice : ‘ Before we move on , others of you must have seen the safe open from time to time ; it would be useful if we could establish how long the books have been there . ’ |
| 16 | They must have gone a good two miles before they met another car . |
| 17 | Bearing in mind the England team 's attempts to break out , cricket must have seemed an appropriate fund-raising event , and a knock-out competition among teams from the media will be played this weekend at North Middlesex CC , Park Road , Hornsey , London . |
| 18 | I 'm afraid it must have upset a great many people at Thrush Green during the past hour . ’ |
| 19 | That meant that they must have had a good sexual relationship too . |
| 20 | The girl let go of my hand and moved away into the gloom behind me , where she must have put the screwed-up five-pound notes on to the chest of drawers with the magazines , the small framed photograph , the towel , the box of paper tissues , the jar of Vaseline , the baby 's dummy and all the other odds and ends spilled over the varnished oak top . |
| 21 | The sounds , as we have already said , must have provided a constant cacophonous background to the daily round , while the smell of a street which included a butcher and chandler 's shop , stables , a smithy , clothiers , workshops and a liberal supply of earth closets would be scarcely credible to modern sensibilities . |
| 22 | It must have taken a full five seconds for him to crumple Des , but he needs another three to get moving , and by then I 'm at his side . |
| 23 | By the time of the next election , Labour must have established a clear ideological alternative in the voters ' mind . |
| 24 | The Welsh annals ( s.a. 629 ) refer to the besieging of Cadwallon on the island of Ynys Lannog ( Priestholm ) and Bede says that Eadwine brought under Anglian rule the Mevanian Islands , by which Môn ( Anglesey ) and Man are meant ( HE 11 , 5 ) , making it clear that the northern Anglian king must have established an impressive naval and military presence in the Irish Sea . |
| 25 | To be in with a chance of winning you 'll have to answer the following three questions ( the categories are popular music , fashion and words ) . |
| 26 | I am writing to warn other dog owners of the potential hazard of the rape plant ( you 'll have noticed the bright yellow flowers now covering so many fields ) . |
| 27 | ‘ He 'll have to take a few more days , ’ said Quinn . |
| 28 | Now you 've got the chance to go you 'll have to get a decent sized boat now . |
| 29 | You 'll have to supply the first two for now , but we have made a start with the paper work . |
| 30 | He 'll have to pay the three hundred pound repair bill himself . |