Example sentences of "[modal v] have [vb pp] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her man was Willie Johnson , the player at the centre of the most emotional scandal in the history of Scottish football , and a figure of such sentimental intensity , he should have played for Nashville . |
| 2 | Erm we will continue to say that Harlow should have applied for designation years ago erm it 's very |
| 3 | He replied that there was n't , but that I should have asked for Operations when I got to Porto . |
| 4 | When it was too late and Nails had had time to cool down , he realised he should have asked for Mr Bean or even Biddy or Nutty 's dad to be contacted . |
| 5 | Some of the tunnels must have run for miles , winding in and out of the channels of water that threaded everywhere . |
| 6 | She too , like Mercer , must have suffered for years from his boorish behaviour in public , and she had distanced herself from it . |
| 7 | He he he must have asked for Mr . |
| 8 | She knew something dreadful must have happened for Mrs Bradford to be visiting . |
| 9 | They must have known for weeks . |
| 10 | We should not underestimate the courage it must have taken for Clinton to give the go ahead to the Bosnian airlift . |
| 11 | In their enthusiastic welcome for the referendum result , Lithuanian leaders pointed out that many ethnic Poles and Russians ( who made up 20 per cent of Lithuania 's population ) must have voted for independence , contradicting Soviet allegations that Lithuania 's minorities felt persecuted and needed to be defended by Soviet troops . |
| 12 | ‘ He 'll have headed for Europe … ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Life Forever ’ gives birth to one of the most gorgeous , melancholy intros you 'll have heard for eons , before launching into a track that has the potential to take the pelican crossing between all manner of specialist clubs . |
| 14 | In England obituaries regretted that he had not appeared more regularly for his country , while in Dunedin cricketers could only dream of the great things Jack Crawford might have done for Otago cricket … if only a World War had not interfered with something as important as cricket . |
| 15 | He might have said for example : ‘ The Word shall never return void but its impact will be a whole lot greater if it 's presented well . ’ |
| 16 | On a dry pitch Kieft might have gone for goal instead of squaring the ball to Berghuis , one of four new Dutch caps to appear during the game , whose shot sailed high over the bar . |
| 17 | Indeed , if one did not know Cruyff better , one might have mistaken for gloom the mood in which he unsmilingly accepted his reprieve . |
| 18 | She entered with an assurance which a less experienced investigator than Dalgliesh might have mistaken for arrogance or insensitivity . |
| 19 | One might have hoped for silence from Diana Mosley but now she has been giving us the benefit of her experience on the subject of sexual politics : ‘ There are quite as many henpecked husbands in the world as there are battered wives , something feminists fail to notice . ’ |
| 20 | It 's the sort of gem Richard Burton might have bought for Liz Taylor . |
| 21 | Ancient dolphins might have competed for resources with seals , giant penguins , and other sea birds . |
| 22 | It looks like one Henry the Eighth might have discarded for reasons of vanity . |
| 23 | Even naked , Leo did n't at all seem at a disadvantage , and , as she watched the two men , she finally and forever dispelled any lingering feeling she might have had for Ryan . |
| 24 | Cairns-Smith discusses , in more detail than I can accommodate here , early uses that his clay-crystal replicators might have had for proteins , sugars and , most important of all , nucleic acids like RNA . |
| 25 | As flotation advisers suggested that as many as two million people could have applied for shares after a last-minute surge of applications , he added that the issue would be a big step towards the Government 's goal of increasing the level of share-ownership . |
| 26 | Mrs Thatcher replied that the government could have waited for inflation to come down . |
| 27 | He could have dived for pearls and she could have painted . |
| 28 | She could have lived for years . |
| 29 | For three whole days she 'd blanked out the memory of that kiss they 'd shared , but now it came flooding back with a vengeance , hot and strong and so seductively real that she could have wept for shame . |
| 30 | It 's the best verdict we could have hoped for John Newton was doing well in the RAF . |