Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [modal v] have [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 But I 'd bought the wrong weedkiller , it was Tumbleweed and I found out later it 's only lethal to tropical fish , apparently I should have bought pathklear which is much stronger .
2 So I would have to warn Time , ‘ Be careful , some of the images I did n't actually take , my minder 's taking them . ’
3 So I 'll have to take care of her . ’
4 To a large extent of course the Queen was able to make up for the loss by grants of double , triple , and even quadruple subsidies , but in doing so she may have encouraged resistance .
5 The fact of no income may well mean that she can not continue to pay the mortgage , and so she will have to move house thereby losing her home , friends and familiar surroundings .
6 So you could have done research of er very clever nature in his back room basically ?
7 In spite of her own feminism and socialism her films are not propagandist or didactic , as she was very well aware that : ‘ We were not engaged to indulge our own politics or socialism , however much we would have found satisfaction in doing so ’ .
8 I merely smiled and he got up , patting his face with his handkerchief , talking about the pollution of the water in London , about tests carried out and how soon everyone would have to boil drinking water first , it 's turning into a third-world city , he said , a third-world country , no one will admit it but England is turning into a third-world country .
9 Soon someone will have to say boo to this goose fattened up for foie gras , and it ought to be someone British .
10 That that 's just I would have said Chairman anyway I would have probably have taken
11 Normally I would have taken time to think , and said something polite , but somehow I answered at once , ‘ No , sir . ’
12 That 's not like Dot , I felt if she 'd been called away she 'd have got word to me somehow so … so that 's why I rang the Firm .
13 I invite the student of the air war to compute Harris 's achievements with 1,625 aircraft and consider how much sooner we could have achieved victory in Europe had he the support of the promised 3,500 aircraft , and the entire Chiefs-of-Staff Committee .
14 Only now did it occur to her how easily he could have taken advantage of the situation .
15 If she had made it just a few feet further she would have found safety in the homely atmosphere of the estate where she lives with her family .
16 Clearly he would have to tell Parliament as much as was known .
17 I thought by now I should be at home , I thought by now I should have secured peace , or died honourably in the attempt .
18 oh yeah I 've run out of conversation now you 'll have to record Star Trek for me tomorrow .
19 To strike her now she would have to attack Rain first .
20 Well I 'll have to get hold of your address and I 'll send you a birthday card but I might not actually send you a real birthday card , I 'll probably send you like a piece of paper saying happy birthday or something .
21 Well you could have gone sort of like round the Rainbow and that way on .
22 Well you should have turned heating
23 A hundred years ago they might have made sense , due to ignorance : like the child said , there 'd been talk of witches .
24 A year ago it would have made headline news .
25 A few weeks ago it would have scored claw marks on her heart .
26 I 'm gon na have another day off work and then I 'll have to have bath tonight .
27 that 's all , but then I 'd have to keep blow drying and it every day .
28 Then I must have lost consciousness . ’
29 Then ye could have prepared yersel' . ’
30 Her mum and dad said maybe she should have done gym , but her grandmother shook her head .
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