Example sentences of "you [vb mod] have [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Ye should have poured a whole bottle of lysol down it before me . ’ |
| 2 | You may have made a genuine mistake or misrepresented a situation . |
| 3 | You may have to carry a spare set if you are going out for a full day 's detecting as charge life can be as low as five hours , and ni-cads should not be recharged until they are spent . |
| 4 | You may have done a good job on your own patch but you can not clear the entire neighbourhood . |
| 5 | Now , if you were out and about at about ten o'clock last night you may have seen a greenish glow in the sky . |
| 6 | Make contact with the so-called " special clinic " ( department of genito-urinary medicine ) at your local hospital if you have any reason whatever to suspect that you may have contracted a venereal disease . |
| 7 | Firstly , if , as they have been , house sales are still sticking when you come to sell , you may have to accept a lower price than you had hoped to get ( although , of course , you may also be able to buy your new property more cheaply ) . |
| 8 | You may have to add a small internal power filter . |
| 9 | If you own or lease property where no-one is living you may have to pay a standard community charge in that area in addition to the personal charge in the area you live . |
| 10 | The rules for this are complicated , but you can claim various reliefs , so you may have to pay a little or nothing , particularly if you sell within three years . |
| 11 | Looking back on that then , you must have lost a great number of colleagues and workmates that it must give you sort of mixed feelings looking back on it ? |
| 12 | ‘ You must have had a hard month of it , ’ she said . |
| 13 | Moving on , erm in te you know obviously you must have had a fair amount of c you said you had a fair amount of contact with erm tenants in the flats . |
| 14 | ‘ You must have had a full life ? ’ |
| 15 | The other thing they say , if they 're Terrans , or actually , especially if they 're not , is , Well , you must have spent a good deal of time on Good Old Mother Earth . |
| 16 | ‘ You must have got a few in the Houses of Parliament , ’ he said , smiling . |
| 17 | By week 3 , you should have lost a few pounds — at least four , possibly as many as eight — and you may notice a number of minor health problems have begun to improve . |
| 18 | ‘ Then you should have packed a smaller one — as you were told to do ! ’ |
| 19 | A few moments later , you should have converted a printed page into a text file you can load into your word processor . |
| 20 | You should have had a tough education . |
| 21 | You should have got a bigger size in n it Dawn ? |
| 22 | But if you looked carefully at the left-hand side , where there was a glass-enclosed porch , you might have noticed a few little birds flying around , the odd flash and flitter of coloured wings . |
| 23 | So you might have entered a wonderful poem to that competition and Philip Larkin never got a chance to look at it . |
| 24 | You might have to make a quick getaway ! |
| 25 | Although you might have driven a long way to get there , do n't put yourself into a situation you ca n't handle . |
| 26 | You 'll have to take a good swim to find him the night , over to Holland , I 'd say . |
| 27 | Salesman : ‘ sorry , guv , you 'll have to take a black Datsun because it does the same job , and is cheaper ! ’ |
| 28 | If you are wearing trousers you 'll have to wear a long top so it does n't show anything . ’ |
| 29 | So I said to my blokes on several occasions , and they used to think I was a proper pain in the derriere I expect , Go up sort them out , do n't necessarily report them , advise them if necessary , if they consistently do it you 'll have to use a fixed penalty ticket . |
| 30 | But the converse is that if you can make it work you 'll have bought a fair lease on a prime site that you could never have afforded in the ordinary way . |