Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] have [vb pp] a [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I may have got a better deal by moving to Australia , and I still have ambitions to play there . |
| 2 | Perhaps I should have formed a better plan ; perhaps I should have made instead for the Villa Diodati , to see if I could secure any friends and allies there . |
| 3 | There I should have welcomed a faster tempo both for the waltz of the first half , and for the galop of the second , both of them evoking the atmosphere of the fairground as a tenth birthday tribute to the Fairfield Hall in Croydon . |
| 4 | I was n't very happy with my legal representation ; in fact , I think I could have done a better job myself . |
| 5 | Yep The Don was crap — I could have done a better job . |
| 6 | Among people in their fifties there is a marked sense that , " if only I had been born 20 years later I could have had a better time ! " |
| 7 | The acoustic in the solo works is a shade reverberant , and I 'd have liked a longer gap after the Concerto , but the recording quality throughout is very acceptable . |
| 8 | If it were not , you may be sure that I would have arranged a better climate for the Brits than the Lord has seen fit to give them . ’ |
| 9 | Casting into the gap between the willows would have been difficult but I would have taken a bigger net of fish , with a couple of sizeable ones maybe , for I could have hauled each fish out of the swim immediately it was hooked and kept disturbance down to a minimum . |
| 10 | I would have added a further recommendation to the Clapham conclusions : that British Rail should forthwith desist from any further advertising expenditure and re-route the money to the improvement of safety and engineering standards . |
| 11 | Her publications list appears to consist of only two papers , but she may have had a greater influence than this suggests ( J. White , personal communication ) . |
| 12 | ‘ Then you should have packed a smaller one — as you were told to do ! ’ |
| 13 | You should have got a bigger size in n it Dawn ? |
| 14 | But maybe they should n't have — she must have known a better life before this , and what right had they to claim her as their own without having brought her up ? |
| 15 | Mrs Ross ’ s condition had deteriorated ; she had fallen out of bed and it seemed she might have suffered a further stroke . |
| 16 | Nenna felt that she could have made a better hand at answering Louise if only Edward had taken the trouble to return her purse . |
| 17 | She always said she could have done a better job running the place than the Director or his boss , Controller Establishment Research and Nuclear . |
| 18 | I 'd have thought you 'd have made a better job of it . ’ |
| 19 | Pity you were n't a captain , then you 'd have got a bigger disability pension . ’ |
| 20 | She thought she would have made a better job of it , not believing a word , just because she was a good teacher . |
| 21 | If Peggy herself had had one tenth of such devotion from her father she would have had a happier time as a child . |
| 22 | Did you ever feel after having your own children that er you would have made a better midwife erm this experience than when you were single ? |
| 23 | Villa boss Ron Atkinson said : ‘ In the first half , we might have made a better game of it if we had turned up . |
| 24 | We could have created a fairer system without incidentally , the problems that have been referred to in earlier debates of trying to redraw boundaries at such short notice er before the European elections . |
| 25 | With regard to the need for direct and close contact , I do not think that we could have had a clearer example of that than the visit of President Yeltsin and the very straight talking between my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister and the president . |
| 26 | I do not blame the Opposition for not understanding the issues as fully as we might hope , but , given their new-found support and desire for everything European , I thought that they might have developed a better understanding . |
| 27 | When the negotiations began at Dalat it was Giap who assumed the principal role on the Vietnamese side and while , as communists , they might have accepted a smaller but communist state that could conceivably have been free of the French , it was as nationalists that the Vietminh argued their case for indissoluble national unity . |
| 28 | Under these conditions they could have expected a higher failure rate . |
| 29 | There 's another in the keep would have done just as well , but seal or no seal , they 'd have wanted a better tale than I could think of before they 'd have given me the keys of the keep . |
| 30 | Well , they would have showed a wider picture of the actual picture , and apparently they take , co , the photographers had taken a baby away from it 's mother he 's standing in the middle of a desert , and there 's a picture of them with a baby and all these photographers photographing it ! |