Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [verb] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bill thought I 'd died on him the other night cos I was , you know , me breathing and everything , and then all of a sudden I must 've relaxed for a bit and not needed to breathe and he give me a shock he says God I thought you were dead . |
| 2 | He should have gone for a walk on the Downs or gone shopping in the town for antiques , or spent the morning browsing in bookshops . |
| 3 | ‘ If they thought the children were in danger they should have gone for a care order in the first place , ’ Levy said . |
| 4 | Overturning this residence order the Appeal Court was clear Nottinghamshire SSD should have used the Act 's public law provisions from the outset — it should have gone for a care order or a supervision order , enabling social workers to oversee the children 's welfare . |
| 5 | Before LGCM took up its office in the tower of St Botolph 's , Malcolm Johnson should have applied for a faculty . |
| 6 | It was inevitable therefore that she should have looked for a career in motor racing — at least that was what she told herself . |
| 7 | They should have looked for a two-bedded , well-equipped flat in Norwich or in a convenient village close to the shops and post office , and to a church , of course . |
| 8 | It annoyed her intensely that she should have thought for a moment that the dreadful feeling she 'd experienced when he 'd told her he had an engagement was jealousy . |
| 9 | Soon after he came to power he personally led an expedition against the Shanqalla negroes on the Sudan border , and my father affirmed that the slaughter there must have satisfied for a time even his craving for blood . |
| 10 | He thought that he had heard the house door close : McAllister must have left for a stroll , or perhaps even a visit up West , and it would be safe for him to leave the surgery where he had been reading Mr H. G. Wells 's scientific romance The Time Machine , and return to the comfort of his armchair . |
| 11 | HARRISON Ford must have wished for a second take during a speech in London to promote his new film , The Fugitive , based on the hit 1960 television series starring David Janssen . |
| 12 | That belief must have accounted for the number of those wanting to see him and the fevered state of his waiting-room . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's something you 'll have to continue for the rest of your life . |
| 14 | ‘ For heaven 's sake , you 'll have to wait for the autopsy . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , you 'll have to stay for a cup of tea , then , ’ he said . |
| 16 | ‘ The thing is we 'll have to do something or we 'll find we 'll have to work for a living and we do n't want to do that . ’ |
| 17 | If people want to be regulars at his church they 'll have to pay for the privilege . |
| 18 | None of these tenants have access to any tools or materials , and in some cases they 've been told that they 'll have to pay for the repair work . |
| 19 | ‘ I remember that my invitation extended to 14 days , but it was so arranged that any visitor who might have to leave for the day could do so and could return again . |
| 20 | It might have ordered the Serbs to remove their heavy artillery , by threatening to use counter-force ; it might have arranged for the Muslims to move to a safe haven elsewhere in the country . |
| 21 | In one bookshop in Kent you might have imagined for a moment that you were actually in a teacher-training college library . |
| 22 | A middle-class woman , a woman with more money and fewer children , might have apologised for the squalor and the smell of a hundred stale meals . |
| 23 | They looked after each other , that was all , as each of them might have cared for a pet and been solicitous for its well-being . |
| 24 | Being unexpectedly faced by samples of one or the other could convert some to forms of expression which they might have ignored for the rest of their lives . |
| 25 | ‘ You might have dressed for the dance . ’ |
| 26 | Er they may have had some inkling , but you know they might have applied for a timings , you know it suddenly comes . |
| 27 | I might have to go for a recall . |
| 28 | t to get it , is just right because i i in twelve months time we might have to tender for every job . |
| 29 | Seth 's thin lips assumed a configuration that might have passed for a smile . |
| 30 | I suppose it was the predecessor of the modern telex , but it was an unreliable piece of equipment and we never knew when it was going to misbehave and we might have to send for the mechanic to come and unclog its innards . |