Example sentences of "[adv] he [modal v] have be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is it so likely that that man , however much he may have been struck by your beauty and gaiety , Miss Jonathan , would have at once decided to assassinate your future husband ? ’ |
| 2 | The word ‘ championship ’ , however , no matter how much he may have been thinking about it privately , I did not hear from him until much later in the year , when the scales began to tip in his favour . |
| 3 | Yet Rider Haggard seems to have been dissatisfied with his presentation of the character ( and naturally he must have been influenced , as a professional novelist , by the enormous popularity and sales of She ) and he did not resist the temptation to give his readers a further insight into her . |
| 4 | That 's how long he got but , looking at the players he brought through , perhaps he should have been given longer . |
| 5 | Perhaps he should have been expecting her question . |
| 6 | Valentine Cunningham 's excellent study , British Writers in the Thirties , records that , in prolier-than-thou fashion , Calder-Marshall briefly signed himself Arthur Marshall , and had he continued to do so he would have been overshadowed by a later NSS contributor whose speciality was parodying schoolgirl fiction . |
| 7 | So he must have been caught in the meantime and sent back . |
| 8 | Confession had not been a factor in the slowness of Pétain 's promotion in the way that it had checked the career of Foch , de Castelnau and other ardent Catholics ; indeed , Pétain could boast that he had not been to Mass for thirty years , so on this score alone he should have been earmarked , as things stood , for rapid advancement . |
| 9 | Thus he must have been singing falsetto in this role . |
| 10 | Subconsciously he must have been expecting something like this : his first reaction was not surprise but an intensification of the dull misery which had enveloped him for the last 24 hours . |
| 11 | Thereafter he may have been engaged in wholesale dealing in corn and wool , though it is more probable that he continued to lend money under the guise of advancing money against future payment of commodities . |
| 12 | The Judge said if it had cost one penny more he would have been hanged . |
| 13 | The irony for England was that had he decided differently he would have been playing for them rather than against them , for his parents had brought him from Barbados at the age of twelve to live in Reading , and he had played for England schoolboys . |
| 14 | It was his misfortune to envisage every such encounter as a matter of life and death , though by now he should have been used to anticlimax , and to the survival and tenacity of both parties to fight another day . |
| 15 | On the mantelpiece a Victorian whirligig soldier stands to attention — originally he would have been used to scare away birds in the garden . |
| 16 | Well he must have been transferred for some reason or other . |
| 17 | Well he must have been trying . |
| 18 | Well he must have been doing that with the saucepan , he 's pulled all the carpet up . |
| 19 | He was not a superstitious man , but even he must have been encouraged by the good omens that visited him while on board the Potentate . |
| 20 | If only he could have preached conventionally he might have been accepted , and if he could have imitated the smoothness of those illustrators he admired , he could have made a living . |
| 21 | Had he been there earlier he might have been asked a less direct question . |
| 22 | Billy Johnson ( ‘ Look Forward in Anger ’ , 3 April , page 23 ) may have been ‘ fond of saying ’ that if they had n't induced his birth a day early he could have voted in the 1997 election , but then he would have been talking even more crap than the verbals Steve Platt so kindly recorded for us . |
| 23 | Even then he could have been saved , so the story goes , if the giantess Thokk had agreed to shed life-giving tears for him , but for unspecified reasons she refused . |
| 24 | Another man who lived in modest circumstances was Thomas Harington of Ridlington , a non-landowner with only £7 in goods ; yet he must have been related to the squire , John Harington the younger , whose servant he was . |
| 25 | I mean , there was nowhere else he could have been going . |
| 26 | The boy was still obliged to give his earnings every week to his family , otherwise he would have been dragged unceremoniously home and that was something Hari would not allow . |
| 27 | He knew no-one had seen him at Barak 's house otherwise he 'd have been charged straight away . |