Example sentences of "have [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She should have refused to go with him last night and insisted on staying in the car park . |
| 2 | Evolutionary pressures would have gone to work on whatever genetic variability there was in the ability to make the relevant cross-modal associations underlying linguistic competence . |
| 3 | I guess I shall have to learn to stand on my own feet . |
| 4 | He was unable to observe , however — as he would have liked to do in his ever-observant way — just what the expression on Jilly Jonathan 's pretty face might have been . |
| 5 | He would have liked to talk to her more about her husband , but he could n't really bring himself , not yet , to ask any more questions . |
| 6 | Clara would not have liked to wrestle with its huge ornate metallic bolt . |
| 7 | However , these readers were students of English , which means that they were used to reading texts for tutorials that they might not have chosen to read on their own . |