Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [verb] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Should have gone for two should n't I ? |
| 2 | Well then I must have cried for two hours and |
| 3 | You must have worked for 13 weeks to be entitled to a statutory statement of the main terms of your employment . |
| 4 | Well , I know in the interview you did with Patsy Kensit she gave herself a 4 so I 'll have to go for 2 . |
| 5 | But while the FA Cup can still turn dreams into reality , the Second Division might have to settle for one representative at Wembley after tomorrow 's semi-finals . |
| 6 | She was sixteen-years-old but with her slim , petite figure and attractive features she could have passed for twenty . |
| 7 | Who 's Who had revealed him to be seventy-four : in the flesh he could have passed for ten years younger , despite having a head entirely free of hair . |
| 8 | The old scribe would shake his head : ‘ I could have tried for 20 years and still not come up with an opening paragraph like that , ’ he would say . |
| 9 | Yeah , originally they 'd have ducked for three |
| 10 | You may have to wait for one or two things but you know like like copy sometimes but I did n't used to send them s erm er contracts in unless they had everything . |
| 11 | So although the machine may have run for eight minutes , it was not an uninterrupted eight minutes . |
| 12 | Many would regularly ‘ pop their ticker ’ — pawn the watch they may have bought for five pounds , on which they may have raised forty pounds or more in loans , as Melanie Tebbutt showed in Making Ends Meet ( 1983 ) . |
| 13 | Precisely how these new popular energies would influence the world of high politics could not be anticipated : perhaps the movement would have to wait for one of Cobden 's ‘ accidents ’ . |
| 14 | Had he not done so , the probability is the probation order would have run for six months and no one would have been any the wiser . ’ |
| 15 | Yes because in practice what the will would say is that the spouse would have to survive for twenty eight days , th the usual phraseology . |
| 16 | The 35 million Christmas trees bought this year would have to rot for 30 years before decomposing in dumps that are already overflowing . |
| 17 | When we get to 12 o'clock , some of them will have waited for three hours . |