Example sentences of "[modal v] have held the " in BNC.

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1 Joseph had a simple clearance to make for Palace 's first goal and Segers should have held the cross that led to the second — I could have caught it myself . ’
2 ‘ As soon as we got him to a doctor — which took some time — it was discovered that Major Maxim must have held the ammonia under our man 's nose while pouring some odourless spirit — quite possibly strong vodka — onto the blindfold in order to produce the stinging sensation . ’
3 Perhaps if he 'd been around more , he might have held the club together .
4 It thus appears most unlikely that Fahreddin Acemi could have held the kadilik of Edirne for a significant period and much more likely that he never held it at all ; and in this respect , in his not holding a kadilik simultaneously with the Muftilik , Fahreddin Acemi seems not only to differ from his predecessors but also to resemble all his successors in the office of Mufti .
5 He sat for Westmorland in the Reformation Parliament ( 1529–36 ) and may have held the same seat subsequently .
6 Without the promise , it must be doubtful whether Ibstock would have held the dividend .
7 that , if undue influence or misrepresentation on the part of the husband had been established , he would have held the charge to be unenforceable by the bank .
8 In the light of this fact it seems possible to suggest that those authors who subscribe to the former view do so because in later times it would have been only in the rarest of circumstances that one would have held the kadilik after the kazaskerlik .
9 Accrued interest compensates the seller of the bond for giving up all of the next coupon payment even though he will have held the bond for part of the period since the last coupon payment .
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