Example sentences of "she [modal v] [verb] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Yeah I definitely think she ought to have have a check up better to have a check you and it be nothing , than just keep hanging on saying it 'll go away and it does n't , it just gets worse .
2 She felt she ought to have bought a card .
3 She will try to accept the fact , as she takes her mother 's ‘ elevenses ’ in to her , that any attempt she may make to start a discussion of something that might not be of immediate interest to her mother may be turned off suddenly like a switch , and will plunge her temporarily into an emotional darkness in which she will feel very much alone .
4 She may have made a mess of her life ; she may have faced problems beyond your comprehension .
5 She may have discovered a nest of young rabbits , a delicacy indeed in her terms , had a very good meal and then gone off to sleep within the rabbit 's nest .
6 She may have killed a rabbit in a spot — a dead-end , for example — where it prevents her escape by blocking the burrow .
7 So she would have to she was to given up her career in acting , she may have to take a view and give up singing totally for a while .
8 She can complete a course double with BAGGRAVE LAD ( 3.15 ) in the Orbital Centre NH Flat race and earlier at Ludlow she may have initiated a treble by winning with her dual bumper winner RUN TO FORM ( 12.30 ) .
9 I have been told by an old Rochdale colleague of hers that she may have married a doctor and that he thinks she was left a cottage in Tonypandy some time in the mid to late 1960s .
10 Sally Hibberd says it 's a tough race and she may have to run a lot today
11 She must 've made a mistake — Marie said she 'd write to me .
12 But she i if they say she 's made a payment , she must have made a payment .
13 He , too , checked with the police and rang back to confirm that Derek had not been arrested and that he felt she must have made a mistake .
14 She waited a moment for the signal to appear somewhere on the grid , then leaned forward to key the search sequence again , thinking she must have made a mistake .
15 She must have made a mistake herself .
16 She must have liked a book of mine , ’ he said .
17 I think she must have seen a lot of things at that time which had made her the way she was , seen things in the blackout and in the underground stations .
18 Well she must have paid a bit off .
19 She must have taken a knife to push the cord through , she said , there was hardly any room for it .
20 ‘ When I got back I found I had left the garden door a little ajar ; she must have taken a chill .
21 Once they heard her say , ‘ But Harry , you ca n't keep on — ’ And then she must have put a hand over the mouthpiece , because they did not hear anything else until , suddenly , another voice spoke .
22 From the length of it , she must have had a truck waiting outside the check-out .
23 She must have had a life apart from what we know about and she 's living it , ’ she concluded , lamely .
24 She must have had a posting , or else obtained her demob while I was still at Binbrook , because I have a distinct memory of Sheila hammering nails into this crate before despatching it to her new destination , and scornfully refusing all help from J. , who was standing by with the hammer and nails .
25 Well she must have thought a lot of
26 It was almost inevitable , given the excessive respect paid in the Potter house to the written word , and given Frederica 's own mastery of , and intense pleasure in , the school essay , that she should decide to become a writer .
27 I think she should have played a Tour Event before an exhibition event , but then again it would n't be the first time she has n't turned up for a Tour Event would it ?
28 She should have done a bit more than that actually .
29 Perhaps she should have had a brother or sister for Tina , though being well into her forties by then and having waited twelve years for Tina to come along made that impossible .
30 She should have brought a wine jug from the hall , she chided herself as her breathing steadied .
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