Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] have [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | That relics of them should have survived for such a vast period of time seemed even more difficult to believe . |
| 2 | Bill thought I 'd died on him the other night cos I was , you know , me breathing and everything , and then all of a sudden I must 've relaxed for a bit and not needed to breathe and he give me a shock he says God I thought you were dead . |
| 3 | Say no I 'm alright and I must 've lifted my head , all I could hear was this old scraggy voice like a witch , ah serve the fucking bastard right , the fucking honest to fuck , so I must 've sat for another half an hour and I knew I had to go that way to get home . |
| 4 | The times are noted in.my diary and , if they are accurate , I must have survived for several days in succession on as little as one or two hours ' sleep per night . |
| 5 | Well then I must have cried for two hours and |
| 6 | I should have waited for him … . |
| 7 | He replied that there was n't , but that I should have asked for Operations when I got to Porto . |
| 8 | Yes you did it was er the advertisement I 'd seen or very similar in the Scotsman newspaper and I must admit when he got all the information I thought damn I should have gone for that myself . |
| 9 | ‘ Her brother , possibly , but not , I should have thought for long and certainly not at any risk to herself . |
| 10 | The second er reason which he gave me , of course I should have thought for myself , he said , but the accountants more accurately represented the human form than did the rats , so that was a clear one to him , but it was the third one that really floored me , when he told me that their staff had been getting really attached to the rats . |
| 11 | keeps guessing that 's what , I should have looked for . |
| 12 | I should have allowed for it that he was no ordinary man , and could move like a thunderstorm when he willed . |
| 13 | I know the ‘ next steps ’ , i.e. when I will be contacted and when I might have to return for a second interview . |
| 14 | I might have to go for a recall . |
| 15 | PEG : The way I might have cared for you … . |
| 16 | I might have to ask for help with that as well . ’ |
| 17 | Only the day before I might have prayed for a stray round to puncture the car and my coffin and put me out of my endless misery . |
| 18 | I might have wished for a little less detachment in the Rodrigo ( the adagio in particular is rather cool ) , but the Villa-Lobos offerings suit Kraft down to the ground . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'll have to search for it , ’ I told him . |
| 20 | I 'll have to pray for guidance . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'll have to wait for Jeff to phone , that 's all . ’ |
| 22 | I 'll have to wait for Miss Needham-Burrell . ’ |
| 23 | something else that could be quite actually misleading might sleep , be very sleepy , difficult to wake , so if you 've got the baby and you think your baby 's due for a feed and it did n't take very much at the last feed , you ca n't wake it up you should n't think oh well I 'll have to wait for another four hours , beginning to get worried so if the baby 's difficult to wake if it 's difficult to feed not sucking very well if the baby 's cold to touch and then there 's something which is very , very misleading , these babies can have bright red cheeks and bright red hands and feet and if you look at them you think oh they must be warm because they 're red |
| 24 | ‘ I take second place to your work , and I 'll have to settle for that , I suppose . ’ |
| 25 | Well , I know in the interview you did with Patsy Kensit she gave herself a 4 so I 'll have to go for 2 . |
| 26 | I think I 'll have to go for Sheridan too — he was my kind of player , comfortable on the ball , good passer , and took excellent free kicks too . |
| 27 | I 'll have to go for the froggy . |
| 28 | I 'll have to go for a little walk . |
| 29 | I 'll have to pay for it myself too , but I will . |
| 30 | I 'll have to pay for mine I have n't got any in . |