Example sentences of "he [vb mod] [verb] be [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we were paying our visit at the end of the morning , he may have been dressed ready for the office . |
| 2 | If this reconstruction is sound , Oswiu 's encounter with Fín occurred at about the time that he may have been seeking Irish support against the forces of Penda . |
| 3 | Max Jacob believed he should have been given full credit for persuading Modi to return to painting . |
| 4 | That he should have been proved wrong on a number of points should occasion no surprise . |
| 5 | Where he might have been standing still had not the eagles lunged at him , as if moments before it fell they had sensed that some danger was there and had sought to protect him . |
| 6 | I suppose if Rupert had not been a bear he might have been considered prissy , like Noddy . |
| 7 | Spent ten years writing L'Idiot de la famille when he could have been writing Maoist tracts . |
| 8 | Then it abruptly disappeared , and all he could see were entrancing coloured patterns chasing each other about the glowing darkness like tropical fish . |
| 9 | He 's not the first gentleman to turn to crime to pay off his debts , but I suspect that had we brought him before a court he would have been declared insane . ’ |
| 10 | He would have been hearing Tubular Bells had the ball not struck glancingly . |
| 11 | One error and he would have been torn loose and hurled overboard to be smothered by the driving spray . |
| 12 | If the accused had taken the paper itself , he would have been found guilty of theft of that piece of paper if he did not intend to return it , but that charge does not reflect the nub of what the accused did , namely cheat . |
| 13 | I put his age at forty , but even among men twenty years younger he would have been accounted handsome , and he knew it , for his expression showed both confidence and amusement as he continued to hold Ellen 's hand , and he showed even more amusement when she suddenly realised just what liberty she was thus granting him and jerked her fingers swiftly away . |