Example sentences of "[modal v] have do [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You you should have done counties of England . |
| 2 | I did n't go till about half ten ah no cos I had a few letters and stuff to write first and I thought right I 'll just take me time and , cos I wanted to I did n't wan na go faster than you know than I should , I should have done sort of thing cos I wanted to time it properly . |
| 3 | One time , after he had done that , I found somewhere dark , and the Bony Lady cried ; cried as she should have done years back . |
| 4 | I think Con was strong enough and single-minded enough to do what I should have done years ago . |
| 5 | Hopefully the next England manager will realise this and consign him to the scrap-heap as Taylor should have done years ago . |
| 6 | ‘ Would you prefer that I do what some man should have done years ago ? |
| 7 | ‘ This is something I should have done days ago ; something I 've wanted to do almost from the first moment we met , yet I 've fought against it every step of the way , just as you have . |
| 8 | Her mum and dad said maybe she should have done gym , but her grandmother shook her head . |
| 9 | But the real disadvantage to this approach is in terms of the control of maintenance because as we 've already said you 'll have done analysis and design on these elementary but fundamental business functions which reside inside the application . |
| 10 | What we 'll have to do Hayley right , when she starts now she 'll have to tell us what she 's eating every day |
| 11 | Well I 'll have to do loads of erm |
| 12 | Babysitting circles are a good way of making sure you can get a babysitter when you want one , but they do involve some effort on your part — you 'll have to do babysitting in exchange ! |
| 13 | No , I ca n't cos I 'll have to do Marks . |
| 14 | Nor was there any centralised political authority in Ireland itself — a ‘ strong man ’ , for example , who could have done Rome 's work for her . |
| 15 | The people I could have done things for … . |
| 16 | So you could have done research of er very clever nature in his back room basically ? |
| 17 | But now they do er twenty minutes they think they 'd have done wonders ! |
| 18 | John Combes was obviously friends with a fine stonemason who would have done work at Wilton House and perhaps lived in Broad Chalke . |
| 19 | The draw ceremony was conducted seductively by Sophia Loren , operatically by Pavarotti , efficiently by Joseph Blatter , the Fifa general-secretary , and set against a background of studied chaos which would have done credit to a film by Fellini . |
| 20 | ‘ Hearing about Clydebank on the radio , ’ replied Fireman Bill , blowing out a cloud of smoke that would have done credit to the Queen Mary . |
| 21 | The Westons ' brief life stories would have done credit to the swashbuckling imagination of a Stevenson , Scott or Dumas . |
| 22 | The drive would have done credit to a New York Yellow cab , and in no time at all I was being dumped at my hotel — on the blind side but within reach of my room and some assistance . |
| 23 | He said in a grave tone that would have done credit to the S.M.O. , ‘ So she is still having to stay in her bedroom ? |
| 24 | The Sunday Citizen explained his enthusiasm for the Profumo affair because of a long-cherished personal grudge against Profumo and of having unearthed a juicy scandal by snooping that would have done credit to a divorce detective . |
| 25 | Janice said suddenly , throwing herself at me and enveloping my upper torso in a hug that would have done credit to a grizzly . |
| 26 | And he added , in a voice that would have done credit to an elder of the Wee Frees , ‘ If he is yer brother , then ye 've been committin' incest . |
| 27 | Lindsey found herself gazing at a fully equipped unit that would have done credit to any major hospital . |
| 28 | He goes on to make the point that the Scots possessed advanced tastes and understanding in literature , with a Latin poetry that ‘ would have done honour to any nation ’ , but then ponders aloud — no wonder he offended them so — why ‘ men thus ingenious and inquisitive were content to live in total ignorance of the trades by which human wants are supplied , and to supply them by the grossest means . |
| 29 | What like you would have done Nick ? |
| 30 | ‘ Mind you , if you 'd said in advance I would have done gooseberry sauce . |