Example sentences of "i [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 ? ’ |