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Example sentences of "[modal v] have [verb] for a " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	It was a remark he should have reserved for an aging Peruvian marksman called Cubillas .
2	‘ If they thought the children were in danger they should have gone for a care order in the first place , ’ Levy said .
3	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 .
4	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 .
5	Before LGCM took up its office in the tower of St Botolph 's , Malcolm Johnson should have applied for a faculty .
6	He should have waited for a better moment instead of acting impulsively .
7	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 .
8	It was inevitable therefore that she should have looked for a career in motor racing — at least that was what she told herself .
9	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 .
10	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 .
11	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 .
12	In the countryside , life must have continued for a long time as it always had done .
13	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 .
14	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 .
15	He must have worked for a long time in the garage .
16	I 'll have to go for a little walk .
17	‘ Well , you 'll have to stay for a cup of tea , then , ’ he said .
18	If Verve expand any further , they 'll have to apply for a live music permit in the next door dimension .
19	‘ I 'll have to look for a new posting . ’
20	‘ The thing is we 'll have to do something or we 'll find we 'll have to work for a living and we do n't want to do that . ’
21	Only the day before I might have prayed for a stray round to puncture the car and my coffin and put me out of my endless misery .
22	The blow would have killed him instantly — at least , he might have lived for a few minutes in a technical sense , but he would have been unconscious and effectively dead .
23	In one bookshop in Kent you might have imagined for a moment that you were actually in a teacher-training college library .
24	I know the ‘ next steps ’ , i.e. when I will be contacted and when I might have to return for a second interview .
25	They looked after each other , that was all , as each of them might have cared for a pet and been solicitous for its well-being .
26	He might have to settle for a reserve place on Thursday . ’
27	Er they may have had some inkling , but you know they might have applied for a timings , you know it suddenly comes .
28	I might have to go for a recall .
29	Seth 's thin lips assumed a configuration that might have passed for a smile .
30	I might have wished for a little less detachment in the Rodrigo ( the adagio in particular is rather cool ) , but the Villa-Lobos offerings suit Kraft down to the ground .