Example sentences of "[pos pn] parent [modal v] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My parents might have spent every penny they earned on helping their out-of-work friends , but Gran brought me up to be thrifty and never to get into debt . ’ |
| 2 | I went through the whole place from top to bottom , cleaning it , polishing the furniture , and making everything just so , as my parents would have left it . |
| 3 | However , they have told me recently that , when I was about nine or ten , they thought me a bully because I would surreptitiously pinch them or pull their hair in order to keep them in line — that is , in order to make them behave as my parents would have wished them to . |
| 4 | Well then my parents would have to accept it would n't they , they would have to have face face face up to the fact that I was n't already married . |
| 5 | I remember when I was a child that occasionally my parents would have visitors to the house , people that I 'd never set |
| 6 | All this time I had had to try hard not to think of what my parents must have been feeling about my going away . |
| 7 | My parents will have to send me away . ’ |
| 8 | Her parents would have been children when he wandered past their door . |
| 9 | The theatre was not something of which her parents would have approved , such frivolous pleasures were not for the likes of hard-working shoemakers . |
| 10 | On the bus home that day , she wondered what her parents would have to say , if she were to ask them about it . |
| 11 | She found it hard to understand how her parents could have deceived her all her life . |
| 12 | What their parents would have made of this is another matter . |
| 13 | Previously those living with their parents would have been expected to continue living there . |
| 14 | Every Strathclyde pupil is expected to go on a school trip involving an overnight stay at some point during their schooling , though their parents would have to give their consent to this . |
| 15 | Ponyboy constantly reminisces about those ‘ golden times ’ when his parents were alive and how , now , their lives were a daily struggle to survive and keep the remaining family together without the love , warmth and security that their parents would have provided . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , the high proportion who are still dependent on their parents may have important implications for housing and health and social services needed for those who remain at home as their parents become elderly and frail . |
| 17 | However , it will be interesting to see whether , under the Criminal Justice Act 1991 , their parents will have some liability , and perhaps exercise more supervision over their youngsters than they have in the past . |
| 18 | Now they 've got the centre the children seem to spend the first ten minutes with their parents and then they go off and play and their parents can have some time together . |
| 19 | And when the walls came tumbling down in Eastern Europe at the end of 1989 to reveal cowering and bitter populations , overflowing prisons and mental hospitals , ruthless armies of secret police and state informers , corrupt politicians and equality in misery only , they might have wondered how their parents could have given even a second thought to the self-evidently corrupt , ruthless and authoritarian appeal of the ideal of ‘ World Communism ’ . |
| 20 | Very young children present a problem in that there may be a question as to whether their parents should have exercised supervision over them . |
| 21 | Much as his parents might have wanted Charles to have a normal upbringing , it was impossible . |
| 22 | His parents might have done well to remember the ancient adage , ‘ Those whom the gods love die young ’ . |
| 23 | Whereas a white youth may have visions of becoming a successful sportsman , his parents may have a strong enough hold over him to deflect him and set him on course for a ‘ straight ’ job ; often this is not the case with blacks . |
| 24 | Charles feels that his parents would have completed their family with Diana while the Princess herself feels that she would not have been born . |
| 25 | St Joseph 's old boy Jim D'Avila , Labour 's candidate in Swindon at the last election , says his parents would have sent him elsewhere had it not been for subsidised transport . |
| 26 | The shark was simply after a free meal , but as his parents would have advised him there is no such thing as a freebie . |
| 27 | Undoubtedly his parents must have known about it , and that makes it doubly shameful . ’ |
| 28 | Mother was never grasping , ’ denied Meredith , ‘ though I can understand his parents must have thought that . |
| 29 | ‘ And I do n't believe his parents could have lasted too long either . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ All who have become aware of the plight of Tony Bland and the anguish of his parents will have been moved by the agony of their dilemma and the acute difficulty of coming to the right decision . |