Example sentences of "[modal v] have do [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " I do n't know what we should have done without you just now , Bigwig , " he said . |
| 2 | I suppose it was because we know he 's been highly-strung lately — his peculiar behaviour at the airport , for a start — that it took longer than it should have done for me to think over properly what had happened . |
| 3 | The most important principle involved in this selection of Venneman 's discourse subjects must have to do with their relevance to the particular discourse fragment under consideration . |
| 4 | Even after living with Apaches over a month and after all the things they must have done to her . |
| 5 | She told me once to do some lines and I goes , ‘ It 's not worth you telling me to do them , because I wo n't do them ’ , and she goes , ‘ Well , I think you should do them ’ , and I goes , ‘ Well , I 'm not going to , so I do n't know what you 'll have to do with me ’ . |
| 6 | I said , we 'll have to do without our Rice Krispies , if we ca n't manage to get any . |
| 7 | ‘ I told him that he is violent , has mistreated her very badly , have been trigger happy and whatever kindness he might have done for her he had cancelled by beatings and threats he had made on her life . |
| 8 | She pro she might have done to me but I ca n't remember . |
| 9 | Thank goodness we were never occupied — not so much because of what the occupiers might have done to us , but because of what we would probably have done to each other . |
| 10 | He just , he might have done in his younger days . |
| 11 | Could 've done with you earlier , mate . ’ |
| 12 | But , I could 've done without them . |
| 13 | Because he could n't for the life of him imagine what he personally could have done to her . |
| 14 | Many are concerned with the Soviet Union 's place in the scheme of things ; with the poets ' sense of revulsion at what a nation could have done to itself ; with an intense probing of the values of nationhood and nationality . |
| 15 | Erm and they look quite good , but irritatingly I could have done with them , after the first workshop . |
| 16 | Sainz could have done with him yesterday , when his lead was slashed by a charging Pentti Airikkala . |
| 17 | They could have done with him , for example , in the NatWest Match with Northants at Swansea . |
| 18 | He could have done with something , fish and chips even , but the place was so goddamn countrified they probably did n't rise to things like that . |
| 19 | ‘ We could have done with you in Afghanistan . ‘ |
| 20 | ‘ I could have done with you around , you know . |
| 21 | ‘ Could have done with your help sooner . |
| 22 | And with hospital food also being the same the whole world over , I could have done with my own wife appearing outside with a food parcel . |
| 23 | His own , slightly flimsy explanation is , ‘ It was the only job I could have done with my vague , easily bored , butterfly mind . ’ |
| 24 | I could have done with it , I could n't get on the bloo they got this internal bus service that runs from each college , cos you have to go to the other colleges for your lectures , and I just sort , there 's not enough , and you , you get turned away , and I just thought , I went for that bus Tuesday morning , I was supposed to get it at eight fifteen , and he just said sorry , no more room . |
| 25 | If I could have done without it , I would have done . |
| 26 | I suppose someone thought it was a collectable item but we could have done without it |
| 27 | He did n't want Gina using those arguments next time he told her how much better he could have done for himself . |
| 28 | ‘ Hell 's teeth , Fabia , the least you could have done for me was to … ’ |
| 29 | In any case , as a result of the growing emphasis on patrilineal descent in all aristocratic families , even the noblest of wives could do less for an eleventh-century lord than she could have done for his grandfather . |
| 30 | Oh I tell you what he could have done for us have a look at that master that matchline thing . |