Example sentences of "[vb mod] certainly have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , bees learn landmarks after taking off : a recruit who arrived and fed at the feeder , but was transported back to the hive while feeding , returned without the slightest memory of the landmarks she must certainly have seen on her arrival . |
| 2 | It must certainly have looked like that , she realised . |
| 3 | As the law requiring £40 landowners to take up knighthood was seldom observed , the sumptuary acts conceded that it was reasonable for the many men who did not choose to do so to adopt the dress appropriate to the standard of living they must certainly have enjoyed . |
| 4 | And should it have the misfortune not to please these stupid Frenchmen , all would be over — I should never get another commission to compose … the devil himself must certainly have invented the language of these people — and I fully realize the difficulties with which all composers have had to contend . |
| 5 | Had I been at Spithead , I should certainly have joined the mutineers . |
| 6 | — With Mr. Gould all this is very different — he has sufficient to live on , whether his subscribers pay or not , & can well afford the innumerable little expenses of printing — but for poor I — I have just nine and twenty times resolved to give up Parrots & all — & should certainly have done so — had not my good genius with vast reluctance just 9 & 20 times set me a going again . ’ |
| 7 | Er I think I should certainly have made a better nurse , yes , yes I think I should . |
| 8 | He had known where the coal was kept , and the Calor gas poker , and he had had a key — which , now that I thought about it , I should certainly have asked him to hand over to me … |
| 9 | In this instance there 's nothing er and er justice Bingham er did say specifically that he was n't pursuing er the matter of er audit , it was n't his responsibility er the government should certainly have repaired that omission by pursuing it themselves , by inquiring er into er what went wrong . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , we 'll certainly have to do that . ’ |
| 11 | He 'll certainly have to think about it very carefully . ’ |
| 12 | You 'd certainly have to rewrite the communion service , for young people to understand it . |
| 13 | Chelmsford could certainly have done with a bigger pool of players . |
| 14 | Mesmerised by that wagging right hand , the South Africans he blew away on that dramatic fifth morning at the Kensington Oval in April could certainly have done with a few chunks of green kryptonite . |
| 15 | What can be said in the meantime is that , in the current climate at Celtic Park , this internal strife is a hindrance the manager could certainly have done without . |
| 16 | But a reasonably slim and sure-footed man or woman with enough nerve and a head for heights could certainly have got out this way . |
| 17 | Fighters such as the P–51H Mustang ( as illustrated , defending San Francisco ) with a top speed of 480mph could certainly have caught it , however . |
| 18 | ‘ We shall certainly have to rethink our approach … |
| 19 | Had the bodies been those of the missing S.A.S. troops , I reasoned , then they could no longer have been ‘ missing ’ , and the Padre would certainly had told me about their discovery . |
| 20 | A goal at that stage , midway through the second half would certainly have ended all the arguments , but Dowie 's opener was enough to be going on with . |
| 21 | And if we had , we would certainly have cleared the building and got out of here until it dissipated . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ We are talking about a man who played 90 times for England and if he had n't been injured would certainly have played over 100 . |
| 23 | ‘ If you had n't come , she would certainly have accepted my proposal by now . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , on special occasions the Spanish authorities in America would certainly have erected large representations of the king in this manner , as objects of semi-religious devotion . |
| 25 | In later and easier days he would certainly have studied mathematics at university , but instead left school when he was seventeen . |
| 26 | She was cruelly obsessed with class and if her children had not come from a background that she knew to be reliable she would certainly have ignored them as she ignored the au-pair girls . |
| 27 | Had he paused before taking up his pen , and listened to the ghost of Jeeves , he would certainly have heard a deprecatory cough and the chilling words : ‘ I would scarcely advocate it , sir . ’ |
| 28 | Hebrew letters might , therefore , have undergone differentiation for the former group and would certainly have become involved in some associations . |
| 29 | ‘ And Mrs Iverson would certainly have noticed if that had been disturbed . ’ |
| 30 | They would certainly have noticed it , but there are other qualities useful to a sovereign . |