Example sentences of "[modal v] [pers pn] [adv] have " in BNC.

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1 May I please have a drink ?
2 After a while , after a silence broken only by the whispering of the fire , she raised her head and said , ‘ May I really have some hens soon ?
3 May I still have the pleasure of walking to World 's End with the both of you ? ’
4 May I still have the interview with you which you promised ? ’ she asked straight out — and thought for a few seconds , as he looked sternly at her , that she had blown it , and that he had taken the strongest exception to her reminding him of his promise .
5 Why must I always have you and Dad on my back ?
6 Should I rather have brought with me the cross from the altar ? ’
7 But then should I also have said that Oliver rang up the next day and asked if I 'd liked them ?
8 But since I can never have Fergus , not ever , why should I not have Raynor ?
9 Should I really have supported this venture rather than the raffle tickets ?
10 Should you not have made these calculations and blithely continue entering more stitch patterns , you will be given no warning that you are approaching the limit of the memory .
11 Should she not have fought him , fighting on the side of the better Jack , the good Jack , against the false bad Jack ?
12 Given that the decision of the Department of the Environment and of the Scottish and Welsh Offices will have huge implications for the levels of poll tax that people will be expected to pay next year , should we not have an early statement in the Chamber on those issues ?
13 Presumably should we therefore have something that covers quality , oh sorry no this covers it does n't it , yeah , o.k .
14 They have they have t why should they even have to contemplate taking this type of industrial action ?
15 I was just wondering should it not have a photograph ?
16 If God created primitive living things like plants for animals to eat ( do plants have theos rights ? ) , then why should He not have created more complex but still primitive beings which kill each other and may be eaten by man who has been set in dominion over all else ?
17 Should he not have acquired a deep mental calm and certainty ?
18 If there is indeed any foundation for these fears — which I do not at all suppose , for why should he not have contacted me if he was in such trouble ? — I shall settle the matter at once .
19 ‘ Why should he suddenly have materialized out of the blue ? ’
20 It is brought out clearly , and even contrasted with the Hebrew view , in the Epistle to the Hebrews , 9 : 25–6 : ‘ Nor yet that he should offer himself often , as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with the blood of others ; For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world ; but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself . ’
21 ‘ What might I not have done if I 'd had my own clubs for the first two rounds ? ’
22 For example , if someone gave as their hobbies on their CV only reading and chess , and they were applying to you for a job where they would be working with the public , might you not have doubts about that person ?
23 If the erm Homeworks experiment is successful could we see many more stores turning over to that that format and that that or will you consider converting the whole chain or might you just have a separate chain called Homesworks ?
24 Or might she just have found time to sneak up here undetected ?
25 Might she not have had it on crooked ? ’
26 My parting thought as the lid went on was what object might we both have known .
27 Rather than railing against American policy in Vietnam in 1966 – 67 , might he not have attempted to mediate a solution to the conflict ?
28 Rather than warning Arabs and Israelis not to attack one another , might he not have used his influence in Arab capitals to resolve the problem in the Straits of Tiran ?
29 With this one issue so heavy on his mind , might he not have muttered some confused reference to it in his dreams ?
30 He might he probably had his thoughts .
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