Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those problems have not been solved — just as we said that they would not be — because the Government did not take the issue seriously enough and did not press as they should have pressed for the substantial reforms that were needed . |
| 2 | We should have headed for the nearest faux French bistro , be we had not finished our ‘ 89 Cloudy Bay Sauvignon blanc which nobody could spoil , so we sat it out . |
| 3 | Erm but that 's if you just progr project forward where we are cos we used up in , in three months what we should have done for the whole year so you 've only got ta do that , so we 've done a hundred thousand pounds this first quarter and if you 've four more , three more quarters there 's another three hundred thousand pounds over budget . |
| 4 | That belief must have accounted for the number of those wanting to see him and the fevered state of his waiting-room . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's something you 'll have to continue for the rest of your life . |
| 6 | I 'll have to go for the froggy . |
| 7 | A computer programme allows them to plan the food he 'll have to take for the 12 man crew on the Group 4 yacht . |
| 8 | ‘ For heaven 's sake , you 'll have to wait for the autopsy . |
| 9 | Well I 'll have to stay for the next two years unless we go back to Lincoln . |
| 10 | I 'll be as quick as I can and you 'll have to hope for the best until I get back . |
| 11 | None of these tenants have access to any tools or materials , and in some cases they 've been told that they 'll have to pay for the repair work . |
| 12 | If people want to be regulars at his church they 'll have to pay for the privilege . |
| 13 | ‘ I remember that my invitation extended to 14 days , but it was so arranged that any visitor who might have to leave for the day could do so and could return again . |
| 14 | It might have ordered the Serbs to remove their heavy artillery , by threatening to use counter-force ; it might have arranged for the Muslims to move to a safe haven elsewhere in the country . |
| 15 | A middle-class woman , a woman with more money and fewer children , might have apologised for the squalor and the smell of a hundred stale meals . |
| 16 | Being unexpectedly faced by samples of one or the other could convert some to forms of expression which they might have ignored for the rest of their lives . |
| 17 | ‘ You might have dressed for the dance . ’ |
| 18 | I suppose it was the predecessor of the modern telex , but it was an unreliable piece of equipment and we never knew when it was going to misbehave and we might have to send for the mechanic to come and unclog its innards . |
| 19 | A modest journal article might have produced for the author a significant learning experience . |
| 20 | Yet for all his own pleasure at tracing this evidence , Dixon could see little in his report which might have accounted for the look of extraordinary triumph he had seen on Morse 's face when he reported in at 2.45 p.m . |
| 21 | We are never told what use Marmeladov might have had for the shawl . |
| 22 | He had lost whatever little respect he might have had for the old guard of English political life . |
| 23 | If they had wanted to fly supersonic jets for a living , they could have applied for the RAF 's pilot training scheme — you have a one in six chance of passing that . |
| 24 | It would also have lengthened the plane , but the forces of the hauling system would have been correspondingly less , and an increase of speed could have compensated for the greater distance travelled . |
| 25 | She could have wept for the agony of raw longing that burned through her . |
| 26 | She could have asked for the moon , and seen the clansmen climb on each other 's shoulders to reach it down for her . |
| 27 | There was the Trojan war , in which thousands perished over the indiscretions of Helen and Paris , who — give or take a sun-lounger — could have passed for the ancient Greeks ' answer to Fergie and John Bryan . |
| 28 | A criticism of these data was that the groups were not comparable and that this difference could have accounted for the results rather than the effects of therapy . |
| 29 | However , the numbers were small and examination of the data showed that several of the Blacks were arrested on one day ( during riots ) and at least one was charged with robbery , probably with adults ; this one incident could have accounted for the larger percentage of Blacks going to the Crown Court . |
| 30 | I was thinking of all I could have bought for the baby with fifty pounds . |