Example sentences of "[modal v] have [vb pp] for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wondered why Pinkie mentioned Laura , then realised with sinking heart that she was no longer keeping her discontent to herself and the echo of it must have travelled for some distance . |
| 2 | Mary 's authoritarian treatment of customs duties might have compensated for that decline , had not Elizabeth and Burghley allowed inflation to erode their true value . |
| 3 | An early marriage and five children would have tempered most women 's ambitions and had Emecheta 's marriage been happy , she might have settled for domestic life . |
| 4 | Public-sector housing provision , which might have allowed for greater mobility , declined in the 1970s and 1980s . |
| 5 | He was not the friend Preston might have picked for that distinction had there been any rivals in the field . |
| 6 | Even if someone wanted to have their dog put down they could have applied for financial help . ’ |
| 7 | The range of political institutions and objectives is well discussed , although one could have wished for more emphasis to be placed on European Community matters and where they may lead us . |
| 8 | If two together had happened upon a dead man , they could have spoken for each other . ’ |
| 9 | Our quarry secured a table in the far corner and , as soon as I glimpsed him , I could have laughed for sheer joy . |
| 10 | Having said all that , you 'd have hoped for tighter marking on the best striker in England when he 's already got 2 goals ! ! |
| 11 | He may have asked for Norman help against his enemies in 1009 , and a continental source records that he at some point appealed to the French monarch Robert the Pious for assistance , conceivably in the hope that he could exert pressure on the Normans . |
| 12 | Still , it seems unlikely that all eight members of the harmonie rustique would have played for this number . |
| 13 | You know if this was my business , I would have budgeted for this amount of advertising to be ab I mean you ca n't sit it by getting at home er you ca n't get it by sitting at home . |
| 14 | The village of Weston in which Leapor would have lived for some time was six miles north of Brackley . |
| 15 | I would have sighed for human nature , had it not been for the excellence of my trout and the wine which accompanied it . |
| 16 | I doubt that these young men , had they been allowed to form their own world view and their own understanding of national history , would have voted for this bloodshed . |
| 17 | One would have wished for some recognition of the fact that a view of Co-operation which limits it almost wholly to the Consumers ' Movement and is satisfied with that limitation , is at least to be regretted . |
| 18 | This was to have been changed by clause 54(4) under which the benefit received was to be assessed at the arm 's length price which an ordinary member of the public would have paid for that service . |
| 19 | to forty or lower , I would have thought for this sort of plan , the majority . |
| 20 | ‘ And presumably , ’ said Julia , who had been reading the backlog of newspapers that had accumulated during her illness , ‘ the appalling winter will have done for this year 's as well . ’ |
| 21 | Thus at all stages of your flight you will have planned for such contingency and noted the airfield(s) to use . |