Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] to have [vb pp] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was glad that we had not troubled him personally , though we confessed that we should like to have set foot in the flat . |
| 2 | I should like to have had time to discuss such matters , but the paucity of progress made yesterday , the long speeches and the many amendments which had to be considered left the Government with no option but to move a guillotine motion today . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'd love to have ridden Party Politics again but there was no question of a choice , ’ he says . |
| 4 | Many of the incidents in your report ( ‘ Pregnant woman stabbed in weekend of terror ’ , 8 February ) would appear to have involved bloodshed and violence of a type which all commentators state is on the increase . |
| 5 | Discussion of the need to introduce certain Western political , economic and social practices would appear to have taken place at many levels of society . |
| 6 | He would like to have had Cropnose 's version , but their paths did n't cross , and there was no reason , meantime , why he should seek the King 's mother . |
| 7 | The Mercians would seem to have had influence in Berkshire at an earlier date in the reign of Wulfhere and the same may well have been true of Somerset , in which case what Aethelbald was doing was appropriating border territories traditionally in dispute between the Mercians and the western Saxons . |
| 8 | From the later middle years onward , there is some decline in the body 's production of the male hormones and this will begin to have marked effect in the seventies ; but , again , continued sexual activity will serve to keep hormonal levels up , so that it is legitimate to say that sexual activity in the man can continue — provided his health is good and the system is not impaired by disability — well into the eighth decade of life or even longer , provided he keeps in practice . |