Example sentences of "he [modal v] have [vb pp] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Palmerston then interrupted , saying that he ought to have consulted the House first . |
| 2 | He captured three quick wickets before Richards and Lloyd ( who passed 7,000 Test runs ) steadied the ship , but then had Richards lbw , although umpire Meyer later admitted that he may have made a mistake and had considered recalling the batsman . |
| 3 | Mike Phelan looked like he may have discovered a passage into the second round with a fierce drive which spun off a defender with the goalkeeper stranded . |
| 4 | His parents believe he may have wanted the money to buy a house . |
| 5 | Not only do they hold good against the trustee himself , and against his creditors during his life-time and his representatives after his death , but also against all to whom he may have transferred the property , and who can not show that they acquired it for value and without notice of the trust . |
| 6 | No record exists of his education : he may have attended the grammar school at Bury St Edmunds or a charity school in nearby Hawstead maintained by a kinsman , Sir Dudley Cullum , who became his brother-in-law in 1710 . |
| 7 | He may have heard the cow moaning as she gave birth , his ears sensitized to noises the rest of us would not have heard , as we sat talking and laughing around the fire . |
| 8 | ‘ He may have contravened the rules you devised , for your admittedly entertaining method of execution by single combat . |
| 9 | He may have created a settlement overseas which in turn owns an underlying company , which underlying company receives UK dividends . |
| 10 | It seems unlikely that Minkowski would have come across Smith 's earlier work directly , but he may have seen the reference to them in a paper of Ferdinand Frobenius , which appeared in the main German mathematical journal shortly before the competition was announced . |
| 11 | Dante would appear to have seen a striking clock at least fifteen years before the Visconti clock of 1335 was installed ; he may have seen the iron clock placed in the campanile of the church of Sant' Eustorgio in Milan in 1309 — the first Italian public clock of which we have knowledge . |
| 12 | It is eminently practical , and he thinks he may have started a trend . |
| 13 | Here he may have got the idea from a later , but heavily revised and largely independent , version of the duet , included in an appendix to the volume ( pp 439–41 ) . |
| 14 | And he may have taken a drink or two to steady his nerves . |
| 15 | No , no he was n't well , I went to see her er I think he may have had a stroke and he ca n't get about very well at all |
| 16 | Most of the printed newsbooks now attributed to Mabbott 's editorship were probably not written by him , although there is some evidence that he may have had a hand in The Perfect Diurnall ( 1642–55 ) , edited by Samuel Pecke . |
| 17 | So how he came to be carrying a cannister of CS gas is being invistigated … he may have had an accomplice . |
| 18 | Thomas Garvine ( possibly an early version of the surnames Garven and Girvan common in Ayrshire at present ) is thought to have been born about 1685 , in or near Kilmarnock , although the Earl of Loudoun 's intervention on his behalf suggests that he may have had an Irvine valley connection . |
| 19 | In association with his technically minded relative , Thomas ( the exact relationship is not known ) , he may have had an iron furnace and hammer-pond at Hamsell Farm , and possibly a smelter and perhaps a coining press in Isleworth at the end of the century . |
| 20 | Jim may have known the assailant or he may have entered the house either quietly or under a pretence |
| 21 | He once returned to his old school and told staff : ‘ By the time I 've paid my analyst as much as my father paid you , he may have undone the damage you did . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ He may have considered the possibility of selling at some stage in the past , ’ she conceded reluctantly . |
| 23 | He may have left The Bar accompanied , but you never saw him following anyone , gazing after someone or persuading them to come home with him . |
| 24 | He may have left the Daltons at the time of their troubles . |
| 25 | I think he may have planted the idea that I was after her , for badness ’ sake . |
| 26 | It is thought he may have intercepted the cab company message on his radio . |
| 27 | Prior to Theology , he may have pursued an Arts course when he was a young man . |
| 28 | He may have provided an escape route along Stane Street to Bosham Harbour . |
| 29 | He may have admitted a friend or relative , although that 's even more doubtful . |
| 30 | It was thought he may have set a match to it himself . |