Example sentences of "[modal v] have [verb] her [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For it was not pure ocular seeing , or I should have seen her as a girl of the age which I have now reached . |
| 2 | ‘ You should have taken her to the clinic , Rachaela , ’ she said , without accusation . |
| 3 | ‘ They must have bugged her for the same reason we went to see her : she was somebody unofficial but experienced in underground work — They 'd know they were up against some British group not the CIA . |
| 4 | He must have heard her at the door . |
| 5 | Yet Badcox Lane must have regarded her as a member of their congregation in the widest sense , at least in spirit ; when she died , aged 79 , and was buried at Catherine Hill on 18 May 1826 , the chapel entered the fact in its register . |
| 6 | Then suddenly she heard the sound of someone coming , and she put aside her sadness of heart , to realise that Lubor , perhaps on the lookout for her , must have spotted her from a window somewhere . |
| 7 | And I suppose we might have lost her in the long run , but not just yet . ’ |
| 8 | Had it not been for the honey pigment of her skin , any one of her small circle of friends might have described her as a porcelain doll . |
| 9 | If he had chosen to , Thomas might have told her in no uncertain terms what was wrong . |
| 10 | We might have got her at the ferry . ’ |
| 11 | But nothing could have prepared her for the intimacy of the pictures . |
| 12 | Just for a moment he met her eyes , his own very dark and filled with something that made her heart start to beat rapidly , high in her throat , yet nothing could have prepared her for the shock of what he said . |
| 13 | Nothing could have prepared her for the beauty they had just shared , and she knew that for as long as she lived she would never regret giving herself to this man . |
| 14 | ‘ His indifference pushed her to the edge whereas he could have romanced her to the end of the world . |
| 15 | But who could have seen her in the park and reported back this quickly ? |
| 16 | She had a view through the windscreen but no one could have seen her in the back . |
| 17 | He could have told her about the IRA kidnapping him , but that would have alarmed her and the whole household . |
| 18 | We 'd have seen her at the window long ago , and got her down . ’ |
| 19 | They 'd have put her in the freak show , confessing how misled she was by capitalist gold . |
| 20 | My mother 's hotel may have elevated her from the raw stuff of commerce — so much so that she now subscribed to Country Living and other unspecialist periodicals — but the caravan enclosure was decaying anew . |
| 21 | ‘ If she knew about the book , he may have told her about the contents , too . ’ |
| 22 | If he had n't adored her he would have treated her as a credulous imbecile . |
| 23 | Believe me , if I had seen her in any other place , I would have dismissed her as a witch from a mummer 's play . |
| 24 | Few people watching the tearful , scruffily-dressed woman burst through the court doors to freedom would have recognised her as a countess . |
| 25 | Few people watching the tearful , scruffily dressed woman burst through the court doors to freedom would have recognised her as a countess . |
| 26 | But Steve would have hit her with the truth — not intentionally , he was n't cruel by nature , but simply with his down-to-earth approach to everything and everyone . |
| 27 | And she was hoping that they would have sent her for an interview down there . |
| 28 | ‘ He would have seen her at the races , ’ I said , smiling . |
| 29 | He was a real old country doctor , of a type that is fast dying out , and she knew that if she had been a few years younger he would have patted her on the cheek . |
| 30 | He would have to train her to a line . |