Example sentences of "[modal v] not [verb] have [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , he could not fail to have heard of the protest movement which originated with Jean Jacques Rousseau ( 1712–78 ) . |
| 2 | I , I could n't bear to have sit in four walls and not move |
| 3 | ‘ If you 'd done your legal duty , my lad , we would n't have had to go through the bother of pulling you off the street , ’ said Malpass with a sickly smile . |
| 4 | If they 'd settled at the beginning we would n't have had to go through this battle . |
| 5 | The matron also told us that this patient had to go into a nursing home ‘ towards the end ’ because ‘ she needed morphine injections which the doctor would n't give otherwise she would n't have had to move to somewhere strange . |
| 6 | If she had told Richard about Harry , and about Maurice 's dubious cargo , he would n't have had to lie in a pool of blood waiting for her own daughter to rescue him . |
| 7 | ‘ I ca n't remember having cared for Susan . |
| 8 | In his article Neumann can not avoid having to deal with the Menuetto from Beethoven 's Symphony no.1 , which goes at a lively dotted minim = 108 . |
| 9 | The review here can not claim to have gone into any great depth , but its purpose is correspondingly modest , and that is to provide some support to this generalisation . |
| 10 | Far from calling himself a god he admits his own inadequacies — he can not rebuild the dome , he can not claim to have fed on honey-dew and drunk the Milk of paradise . |