Example sentences of "[modal v] have [vb pp] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Say no I 'm alright and I must 've lifted my head , all I could hear was this old scraggy voice like a witch , ah serve the fucking bastard right , the fucking honest to fuck , so I must 've sat for another half an hour and I knew I had to go that way to get home . |
| 2 | In retrospect , the ref should have blown for full-time at this point . |
| 3 | Should have gone for two should n't I ? |
| 4 | Yes you did it was er the advertisement I 'd seen or very similar in the Scotsman newspaper and I must admit when he got all the information I thought damn I should have gone for that myself . |
| 5 | Even when Vinnie left — although we sold him for either what we bought him , or maybe 50 grand more , he had a very good season at Leeds , proved he could play a bit , he should have gone for more . |
| 6 | That relics of them should have survived for such a vast period of time seemed even more difficult to believe . |
| 7 | The TAC system should have provided for this , but the latest estimates of existing stocks were only 78,000 tonnes of cod and 81,000 tonnes of haddock , Holden 's report claimed . |
| 8 | Perhaps not the best saint the church should have chosen for such a profession . |
| 9 | The times are noted in.my diary and , if they are accurate , I must have survived for several days in succession on as little as one or two hours ' sleep per night . |
| 10 | He wondered why Pinkie mentioned Laura , then realised with sinking heart that she was no longer keeping her discontent to herself and the echo of it must have travelled for some distance . |
| 11 | Why she was here , she could n't imagine ; but her head was clearer than it had been in a long time , which meant that she must have gone for some hours without any kind of an injection . |
| 12 | Zermatt , for example , is a resort where many skiers must have wished for better links . |
| 13 | Well then I must have cried for two hours and |
| 14 | Galleries had to be cleared 36 times , which must have accounted for some 35 minutes delay . |
| 15 | You must have worked for 13 weeks to be entitled to a statutory statement of the main terms of your employment . |
| 16 | They must have longed for quiet and solitude , for space to shed their tears in private , or even to vent their anger , but none of them showed it in public . |
| 17 | The fact that the US announced its continuing if not open-ended assistance for the French in Vietnam on the same day as the Schuman plan began Germany 's rehabilitation in Europe was , obviously , a coincidence in spite of any gratitude which the US might have felt for this imaginative and , at the same time , practical French gesture . |
| 18 | It might have made for easier dealings with superiors and a better example for juniors , but then it was a major part of her sexual thrall over him . |
| 19 | Mary 's authoritarian treatment of customs duties might have compensated for that decline , had not Elizabeth and Burghley allowed inflation to erode their true value . |
| 20 | Lane accepted it without comment , although at another time he might have pressed for more of an answer ; he was n't a man who liked to be kept in the dark . |
| 21 | The Liberal Democrats are the only party to offer the Bank the carrot of political independence , and might have hoped for more of an endorsement from Threadneedle Street . |
| 22 | An early marriage and five children would have tempered most women 's ambitions and had Emecheta 's marriage been happy , she might have settled for domestic life . |
| 23 | He might have settled for less , ’ Rincewind conceded . |
| 24 | Public-sector housing provision , which might have allowed for greater mobility , declined in the 1970s and 1980s . |
| 25 | He was not the friend Preston might have picked for that distinction had there been any rivals in the field . |
| 26 | In the apparent absence of identifiable buildings , market-places can only be inferred from the presence of large open areas near the centres of towns , which could have served for periodic markets and fairs . |
| 27 | Even if someone wanted to have their dog put down they could have applied for financial help . ’ |
| 28 | In considering the possible effects of soot on global climate , the models suggest that since the soot did not reach the stratosphere ( around 14–15 km in this region ) , where it could have remained for several years , the fires were unlikely to have caused significant global climate effects . |
| 29 | The station commander , a well-known Battle of Britain type , suggested that he had wasted more animo on the Luftwaffe that he could have kept for such an occasion as ours . |
| 30 | The yellow card for a foul on Jochim and but Laws will be relieved he certainly could have gone for that . |