Example sentences of "[modal v] have [verb] for [art] " 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 | It was a remark he should have reserved for an aging Peruvian marksman called Cubillas . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | Those problems have not been solved — just as we said that they would not be — because the Government did not take the issue seriously enough and did not press as they should have pressed for the substantial reforms that were needed . |
| 7 | Before LGCM took up its office in the tower of St Botolph 's , Malcolm Johnson should have applied for a faculty . |
| 8 | We should have headed for the nearest faux French bistro , be we had not finished our ‘ 89 Cloudy Bay Sauvignon blanc which nobody could spoil , so we sat it out . |
| 9 | Erm but that 's if you just progr project forward where we are cos we used up in , in three months what we should have done for the whole year so you 've only got ta do that , so we 've done a hundred thousand pounds this first quarter and if you 've four more , three more quarters there 's another three hundred thousand pounds over budget . |
| 10 | He should have waited for a better moment instead of acting impulsively . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It was inevitable therefore that she should have looked for a career in motor racing — at least that was what she told herself . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In the countryside , life must have continued for a long time as it always had done . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Basically , it reduces to the realization that man 's gelada-like past — which must have lasted for a very considerable period , even by the standards of evolutionary time — left an indelible stamp on both his id and his ego . |
| 19 | That belief must have accounted for the number of those wanting to see him and the fevered state of his waiting-room . |
| 20 | He must have worked for a long time in the garage . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's something you 'll have to continue for the rest of your life . |
| 22 | I 'll have to go for a little walk . |
| 23 | I 'll have to go for the froggy . |
| 24 | A computer programme allows them to plan the food he 'll have to take for the 12 man crew on the Group 4 yacht . |
| 25 | ‘ For heaven 's sake , you 'll have to wait for the autopsy . |
| 26 | ‘ Well , you 'll have to stay for a cup of tea , then , ’ he said . |
| 27 | Well I 'll have to stay for the next two years unless we go back to Lincoln . |
| 28 | I 'll be as quick as I can and you 'll have to hope for the best until I get back . |
| 29 | If Verve expand any further , they 'll have to apply for a live music permit in the next door dimension . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'll have to look for a new posting . ’ |