Example sentences of "[modal v] have done a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He should have done a bit of minding years ago . ’ |
| 2 | We scored an away goal and then two at home , and I feel perhaps we should have done a bit better . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ We scored an away goal and two at home and I feel we should have done a bit better . |
| 4 | She should have done a bit more than that actually . |
| 5 | We trained on an artificial pitch for two days this week and we should have done a lot better . ’ |
| 6 | In fact er they should have done a lot better , but a lot of Conservative voters did n't bother going out to vote cos it was a foregone conclusion . |
| 7 | ‘ Huh ! ’ he grunted , and , she swiftly realised , must have done a lightning analysis of what she had said , because in his next breath he was commenting aggressively , ‘ So you 've definitely decided to throw Travis over ? ’ |
| 8 | Hank must have done a robbery to have so much money — he must have — there had been one or two bad ones recently — a Chinese grocer had been shot to death , in one instance . |
| 9 | ‘ You must have done a thing or two working in that club , ’ Hitch said , still looking at her . |
| 10 | To qualify for a course at the ICO officers must have done a minimum of ten years ' service . |
| 11 | She handed this creature to Roland , who took it as he might have done a kitten , cradling it in the crook of his elbow , and adding to it , in turn , the nightcapped one , in tiny white pleats and broderie anglaise , and the dark-headed one , severe in dark peacock . |
| 12 | If I 'd done English , geography and history , I might have done a lot better , but they just did n't seem to bother about you if you were doing science — perhaps it was an old-fashioned school . |
| 13 | As one officer said to Levi : ‘ If we nicked everybody we thought might have done a long-firm , we 'd never finish our paperwork , the cases might never come to court , and if they did , they 'd never have the room to try them . ’ |
| 14 | that you could have done a bit more last year |
| 15 | I knew so many rotters before him , I could have done a degree in them . |
| 16 | As Merrill looked at him questioningly , he went on , ‘ Knowing , by then , just how you felt about the circumstances of Elise 's death , you could have done a lot of damage . ’ |
| 17 | How many of these locks do you think you 'd have done a day of the cylinder lock ? |
| 18 | He 'd have done a par about the lead in his pencil if you 'd asked him — a stick and a half — a column — whatever you needed ; and all of it full of wit and erudition . ’ |
| 19 | But I think if er if he 'd have had a firm 's input , that wanted something designing , he 'd he 'd have done a lot better . |
| 20 | Erm but I do n't think we , if we 'd have done a lot more work you know , it 'd have been any better . |
| 21 | I do n't know what possessed me to do so but I started twitching the squid like I would have done a deadbait piking when suddenly the rod thumped over ! |
| 22 | Or , possibly , she would have done a bit of both . |
| 23 | Indeed , if the Canterbury claims were as well founded as Anselm believed , anything less than a general authority over the whole British Isles would have done a violence to the early history of the see as it was understood at Canterbury , and to the large geographical and historical conceptions which lay behind these claims . |
| 24 | I would have done a car with somebody holding it |
| 25 | ‘ She had already done so much and would have done a lot more . |
| 26 | He would have done a lot better with Speich , but the burly , moustached German did n't look very sentimental . |
| 27 | If you are going up to senior positions movement is essential ; even people who may plateau out at middle management will have done a lot of different jobs for three , four , five years . |