Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When we started out , I must 've practised twelve hours a day for three months , spending hours working on an open string to get those eighth notes , and the triplets shuffle effect — talk about your hands being a bloody mess . |
| 2 | McGeechan reflected that Scotland probably should have scored three tries and there was some suspicion about the Scottish scrummage ( though preparation for the England game in that regard will not be as fraught as last week ) . |
| 3 | I have passed The Secrets of Speed Reading to my colleague and Booker judge Nicholas Clee , who by test 10 should have reached 1,050 words per minute . |
| 4 | This course equips you to skipper by day with some confidence , but you need previous experience ; you should have sailed 5 days on a yacht , with 4 hours night sailing and 100 miles logged . |
| 5 | pointed out that the meeting needed to grant an indulgence to waive the requirement that candidates for First and Second Vice Presidents should have served two years on a National Committee . |
| 6 | Oh well yes I should have done one word . |
| 7 | They should have waited two years more , Henry thought bitterly , until the people had come to hate me even more than they hated Richard . |
| 8 | ‘ I prayed that I would see you again , ’ he said , ‘ so I could ask the question I should have asked five years ago . |
| 9 | ‘ Ah , but I should have acted six years ago , I should have taken you then when you were vulnerable in your confusion — as I supposed — involved with a recently married man , presumably for the first time , and not knowing what it was you felt for me because you were so sure Jones was all you wanted . |
| 10 | The address for Antique Designs Ltd printed in the March issue should have read 277 Little Road , SW6 . |
| 11 | It should have read 300 years . |
| 12 | If I 'd been fourteen years old I should have commanded one shilling , but being only twelve and a half I got sixpence . |
| 13 | I have already mentioned the stipulation that before I could qualify for married status I should have passed two language exams . |
| 14 | One of the Liverpool goals was lucky , Deane should have had 3 penalties , the ref got a lot of stick from the Leeds fans , etc . |
| 15 | The members of the branch were indignant that the government should have planted two spies among them . |
| 16 | The journey from Marseilles to the Holy Land should have taken fifteen days . |
| 17 | Now the meeting , which should have taken ten minutes , was being dragged out to three-quarters of an hour . |
| 18 | Later , confronted with the ambiguously dominating Attwater who kings it over the natives on his atoll , one of them ‘ broke into a piece of the chorus of a comic song which he must have heard twenty years before in London : meaningless gibberish that , in that hour and place ’ , seemed hateful as a blasphemy : ‘ Hikey , pikey , crikey , fikey , chillinga — wallaba dory . ’ |
| 19 | They must have crossed 1,000 balls in the first half hour . |
| 20 | You must have served five years [ two after membership ] in a legal office and be 25 years of age before you become eligible to become a Fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives . |
| 21 | Another fine eight-part composition , the motet ‘ Super flumina Babylonis ’ , was in 1583 sent by de Monte to William Byrd whom he must have met thirty years earlier during his visit to England as a member of Philip II 's chapel . |
| 22 | He derived some comfort from Rajiv 's habitual elegance ; wearing a suit , shirt and tie that must have cost two months of his salary as an Assistant Under-Secretary of State , he was sitting at the other side of the large , uncompromising desk that the Department provides for its most senior officials , not a hair out of place and his black eyes alive with amusement . |
| 23 | He paused for a moment , then went on softly , ‘ Lord , Merrill , but you must have made one hell of an impact in just one evening for him to come all this way , presumably simply to see you . ’ |
| 24 | The same stack is excited at the beginning and end of the sequence and if the stator and rotor teeth are aligned in this stack the rotor must have moved one tooth pitch . |
| 25 | Once a guy came running after me , he must have run fifty yards up the road , but I had to ignore it , because I ca n't be big-headed enough to turn round and go , ‘ Oh , he 's running after me . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ He was yelling out in terror and must have run 50 yards before two blokes caught him and rolled him about the pavement to put the flames out . ’ |
| 27 | That 's alright that , I must have done six loads of washing , for some reason I just did n't seem to have enough to do me loads |
| 28 | Once over the stile he was soon amongst the hawthorn and gorse and on the track which led to the little hut ; he was doing as Alfred must have done two days earlier . |
| 29 | Boscastle is a truly delightful place , which looks very much the same as it must have done 600 years ago with its narrow winding streets and pretty 14th-century cottages . |
| 30 | Surrounded by apple orchards and huge cedar forests , the older parts of the town looked like parts of the Alps must have appeared sixty years ago . |