Example sentences of "he [modal v] have [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Because the flight path he was following when we first located him would have taken him to Ankara in Turkey , or some place pretty close by . |
| 2 | He ought to have slapped me across the face . |
| 3 | He ought to have done it through the college got it cheaper . |
| 4 | He may have reassured himself of the contnuing power of his charisma during recent tours of the south , where he was given a rapturous welcome . |
| 5 | ‘ He quit after a fairly short time — I think he may have done it for only two terms . |
| 6 | It was a sensible decision and he may have taken it in full awareness of this . |
| 7 | Eadmer 's explanation of Anselm 's silence is interesting — indeed , he may have had it from Anselm himself : |
| 8 | He may have confused himself with the Messiah , but he did n't expect to die . |
| 9 | He may not have lost his ability to balance , or he may have relearned it through his therapy sessions . |
| 10 | If he looked into the device , he may have left something of himself . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ If she knew about the book , he may have told her about the contents , too . ’ |
| 12 | Had to be paid , it ca n't be paid by the twenty eighth it 's er you know well if I could 've got hold of David or er , Andrew , I was gon na give Andrew a right bollocking for just pushing it in and he should 've sent it to er , Michael , Michael 's just got it shoved in front of his nose a in Edinburgh . |
| 13 | That 's not too bad actually except the day the young men loaded it back onto the trailer when we 'd finished and it was one of these corners , and I happened to be muggins on the corner where that lever was , and he had n't tied it , it was only in the ratchet , you know , he should have tied it of course . |
| 14 | He should have referred it to Management and Personnel over in Great George Street and let the Security Division sort it out . |
| 15 | He should have placed himself in the middle between Laura and Maggie he thought . |
| 16 | Furthermore , since I disagree with the view of the Divisional Court on this point in Ex parte Handscomb , but the Home Secretary was obliged for the time being to follow it , there is little logic in saying that he should have extended it to mandatory cases . |
| 17 | He should have pitched her into Foxton Mire and saved himself a lot of trouble . |
| 18 | Rich , the fact is , he should have put it in the |
| 19 | His own fault , he should have left it to the river police who had more experience of that sort of thing , but he had felt responsible . |
| 20 | That fat Cockney with his stupid tattoos and his jocular manner and his dirty jokes ; he should have dumped him in the canal ! |
| 21 | Why he should have dangled it for three months before an undistinguished ex-Chancellor of another party who did not even possess a seat in Parliament defies explanation . |
| 22 | Why he should hold them , why he should so strangely realize them , and above all , why he should have chosen me to be his solitary audience of one , remained a total mystery . |
| 23 | Okay he should , he should have tapped us as a resource certainly . |
| 24 | He explained to Rain : ‘ He should have thrown it into the harbour but he brought it back here . |
| 25 | He must have heard her at the door . |
| 26 | He tells us — largely as he must have heard it from the horse 's mouth — the history of programmed machines , the development of McCarthy 's own interest in combining human common sense with the brute number-crunching force of early computers , and how this led to his own contributions , perhaps the best-known of which is the invention of LISP , now the standard programming language of artificial intelligence . |
| 27 | He must have worried himself to death just because he was afraid to tell me . ’ |
| 28 | Maria had left the identical cuttings anchored by a small china bowl on her coffee-table , but the bowl had been moved , so he must have examined them on arrival . |
| 29 | He must have seen you through the window and he kissed me to punish me . |
| 30 | If she had thought she was showing him a stop-light , however , he must have seen it as a green one , for his arm suddenly tightened and there was a definite amorous gleam in his eye as he edged closer to her and breathed seductively , ‘ I like you so much , Fabia . ’ |