Example sentences of "[modal v] n't [verb] have [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I , I could n't bear to have sit in four walls and not move |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | If they 'd settled at the beginning we would n't have had to go through this battle . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ I ca n't remember having cared for Susan . |