Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Maybe I ought to go have ( done ) to me what Casey had done , ’ North told a friend bitterly ; ‘ take my brain out , and leave me alone . ’ |
| 2 | Since wars involve others than those who face battle , that overwhelming majority who may prefer to have nothing at all to do with war , they can not , and should not , be omitted from any modern consideration of the subject . |
| 3 | We do , however , appreciate that being creatures of habit , many people may prefer to have a similar breakfast each day , for the sake of speed and perhaps taste also . |
| 4 | Some people who have difficulty in paying for their water may prefer to have prepayment meters fitted . |
| 5 | The number of players varies ( around 35 at the last count ) , and the strategic implications of such rules as may exist have not been fully worked out . |
| 6 | If you work regularly for one agency you may want to have your position and experience reviewed from time to time , so that future work you undertake can be constructive and part of bona fide career development . |
| 7 | Aside from running their hands over the dog 's body and legs , checking its conformation , judges may want to have a clear view of the dog 's mouth , to check , for example , that the jaws are neither under or overshot , according to the breed standard . |
| 8 | The acquirer may want to have conduct of the collection of those debts , so that the seller does not use an unduly heavy-handed approach and damage the goodwill of the business after sale . |
| 9 | John Watkins University Press I think there 's a copy in the library erm , you may want to have a little look at it , but so what we 're going do is we incorporate both these two hypothesis into a model supply response okay . |
| 10 | Their partners may enjoy having this done too . |
| 11 | Ministers may try to make a statement ( they secure this every Thursday with the weekly business statement ) ; the Opposition may seek to have a Private Notice Question ; the Government prefer to have a debate on a Government motion or bill ; the Opposition would like to have an Opposition Day when it opens the debate ; and backbenchers seek to get in with points of order and applications for emergency debates . |
| 12 | If the access to your front door is difficult , perhaps with steps , you may need to have a ramp made , if the patient is still in a wheelchair . |
| 13 | He may need to have the lump removed . |
| 14 | A generous interpretation aids both plaintiffs ( who may need to have service effected before proceeding to judgment ) and defendants ( who can benefit from knowledge of pending proceedings ) ; and the state of destination does not commit itself to recognise any judgment the plaintiff may ultimately obtain , for service facilitates proceedings and does not authenticate them . |
| 15 | Those with dairy goats may need to have some goats kidding in the autumn to obtain good supplies of milk in winter . |
| 16 | And if your son is n't settling down then we may need to have another look at him , and run some tests on him . |
| 17 | Faced with a zero price a consumer may opt to have the service just because it is free , while not really feeling very strongly about it one way or the other . |
| 18 | But why he seems to think we should want to have anything to do with him and his fancy talk — that 's more than I can imagine . |
| 19 | An industrial manager at any level should endeavour to have a clear view of the future , and the role that he would like his business to play in that future . |
| 20 | With a great clean sound , reasonable amounts of crunch and buckets-full of sustain , The Attax preamp should 've had me jumping about in praise . |
| 21 | I did n't lose her till she was over twenty but So but I think it was desperation because if I 'd had money I should 've had a house full of children because I loved them , you see , I 've always loved children . |
| 22 | I think they should 've had |
| 23 | Never ever had half as much wage as I really should 've had and I say to that 's never bothered me . |
| 24 | Yeah , and I said erm , and I said that were n't , if that was n't enough I said bearing in mind he 'd just come out of intensive care off a life support machine , I said and which I think that , that tells us that he needs a bit of extra care compared to some of them on the ward , I said I know they 're all important and I know you 're busy but I said I think you should 've had a bit of priority , he was dying , and you know he 's dying , you 'd been told , she said yes that 's right , I said but what really broke my bloody heart was from one o'clock that dinner time he sat in that chair , we left that hospital at half past eight and you assured us he 'd go to bed and when we came in the next morning at half past ten Joy he sat there exactly the bloody same , in the same filthy blanket and the same catheter on him , oh I went fucking mad and I said how dare you , I said because somebody 's told they 're dying does that mean they 've got to be forgot ? |
| 25 | You should 've had an Expresso coffee . |
| 26 | We should 've had a picture of that . |
| 27 | They should 've had someone completely better . |
| 28 | What they should 've done , instead of having all them machines on that moors they should 've had damn bugger stripped to waist digging it out . |
| 29 | People were still walking up the drive , and one or two were beginning to walk back down it : they must 've had enough of visiting for today , like me . |
| 30 | A private party in some high-rise apartment block ; looking down into the city from the forty-second floor , it was like being inside a radio , one of those old valve radios , and Jed almost told Creed what he thought , he almost blurted something Creed would n't even have understood , You must 've had radios thrown away some time , did n't you ? but the rush blew over and he was still staring down into the forest of lit buildings and he still had n't spoken . |