Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [vb pp] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bill thought I 'd died on him the other night cos I was , you know , me breathing and everything , and then all of a sudden I must 've relaxed for a bit and not needed to breathe and he give me a shock he says God I thought you were dead . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In one bookshop in Kent you might have imagined for a moment that you were actually in a teacher-training college library . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Er they may have had some inkling , but you know they might have applied for a timings , you know it suddenly comes . |
| 21 | Seth 's thin lips assumed a configuration that might have passed for a smile . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The list of British craft union leaders of this period is filled with men who worked for a spell in the United States or somewhere else overseas , as they might have worked for a spell in Newcastle or Barrow-in-Furness . |
| 24 | He might have shaved for a match , thought Perdita ; the girl in the petrol station must have a skin like garlic sausage . |
| 25 | What Harry Lime missed out on , though , was the fact that if he 'd gone Club 18–30 instead of Austrian Airlines , and taken a couple of friends in tow who were paying the full price , he could have copped for a massive sixty sovs off his bill , got a suntan into the bargain , and avoided coming to a very nasty end in the sewers . |
| 26 | ‘ And they could have arranged for a taxi . ’ |
| 27 | They could have gone for a potential Test candidate — like Essex left-arm paceman Mark Ilott . |
| 28 | Perhaps you 'd have let me know we could have gone for a beer . |
| 29 | If I could have asked for a gift , I suppose it would have been the ability to make a living as a musician . |
| 30 | Charlie could have wished for a more cloudy night . |