Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [vb pp] some [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I should have caught some more waves so they could n't underscore me .
2 Entry Requirements : Besides a First or Second Class Honours degree or its equivalent , applicants should have had some prior programming experience .
3 ‘ Someone in overall charge of training who should have had some formal training in that field themselves ’ .
4 Well , they erm seem to think we should have had some yellow in it for some obscure reason to match the programme , but I do n't know , I thing it would have taken the erm the look off the thing .
5 I must have prepared some twelve pieces for possible auditions .
6 I think She-She must have activated some secret glandular gimmick , to wrap it up quickly .
7 The assassin 's blow threw him back against the wall , hitting it so hard he brought books tumbling from the shelves , but before the assassin 's fingers found his throat he delivered a punch to the man 's belly that must have touched some tender place , because the assault ceased , and the attacker let him go , his eyes fixed for the first time on Gentle 's face .
8 It was so far from her usual style that Charles thought she must have undergone some violent change of personality .
9 Des O'Grady must have made some audacious remark to her in his broad Irish accent for she gave him a wide grin , showing her impeccable set of incisors .
10 He must have made some assuaging gesture .
11 Someone must have done some extensive informing , because MacLane picked Susan and me out of the crowd without even the pretence of looking around for the usual suspects .
12 They must have done some good ( Cipolla points out that their principles were the same as those of the great 19th-century sanitary reformers such as Sir Edwin Chadwick ) , and yet there seems to be no way of telling from the surviving evidence whether lives were saved as a result .
13 you see and ther I su I suppose there was about ten or a dozen girls behind the counter because it was early and late turn for them because you see we were open , you see , until ten o'clock at night , you see , and er then , well , anyway , after that erm I heard about this job going as Assistant Manageress at Cambridge and er so I applied and the Manager said to me , I thought well I 'll be here ten years , erm I can be here until I 'm you know , donkeys years and er so he said well look you may not get a job because he said that another girl coming from Norwich to go to Cambridge to see the Manager as well as you and so you might not get it , she might get it , and , however , I went and er I , I met the Manager and the Manageress in the front office , the Manager 's office and we all had a chat but I did n't see the girl from Norwich , she must have gone some other day and anyway I got the job , you see , and er , and so I went to Cambridge as Assistant Manageress and I very well and I got to know all kinds of people , all nationalities being a university city .
14 Jenna 's shocked looks must have reached some deep core of humility in Ned Clarke .
15 Scotland was an unhappy country in the late seventeenth century , partly for reasons beyond the control of politicians or merchants ; the climate grew steadily harsher , for these were the worst years of the ‘ little ice age ’ that ran from 1500 to 1850 and must have had some general effect of encouraging emigration from Europe .
16 Blanche sensed his dislike must have had some personal grounds .
17 So Balder Head must have had some architectural significance or other , although I doubt if anyone in the dale realized it .
18 Heather must have had some compelling reason to follow in the direction they led , yet what that reason might be he was no nearer discovering .
19 Must have had some bad cider on the lunchtime .
20 But it was a considerable enterprise and it must have had some considerable justification .
21 TENNIS heart-throb Andre Agassi smashed his way into the last 16 in the US Open yesterday — and won a kiss from movie star Barbra Streisand ( inset ) who must have pulled some special strokes to get past the minders at New York 's Flushing Meadow .
22 Stuck 's first collection must have attracted some adverse criticism , for his later collections ( 1708 , 1711 , 1714 ) take more account of the French language and are much more conservative in their key plans .
23 Well , anyway , you must have taken some fascinating turns … and I feel I have , too .
24 ‘ That must have taken some delicate handling , to get a man at the very top in that secret society . ’
25 But it must have taken some sweet talking from Newman to persuade Mansell 's wife Rosanne to agree .
26 The Irish must have taken some droll amusement out of the sights and sounds of New Zealand rugby being in a hyped-up state during their tour — and with not all the impact coming from the tour matches .
27 The man smiled at the girl and must have passed some friendly remark , for she looked at him agreeably before returning to her inspection of the petticoats .
28 Agnes said : ‘ She must have got some new identity .
29 It always looked better from a distance , and by the 1960s it was a tatty , faded and unkempt relic of another age — impractical as an exhibition centre compared to functional establishments like Wembley or Earl 's Court , unappealing to any hippy entrepreneur or maverick Recreations Department dreamer who might have visualised some cultural cathedral or fun palace .
30 I wished that I was less inhibited by my upbringing and could have done some extraordinary thing to confirm her diagnosis — danced on the table or stated that I would n't ally myself with a man with a face like a toothpaste advertisement .
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