Example sentences of "they [modal v] have [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I suppose they might have done at the beginning , ’ he said , ‘ but by the time I can remember we had become part of the place really . |
| 2 | How she regretted those words now , however true they might have seemed at the time . |
| 3 | When they are grafted to a foreign site , they continue to develop as they would have done at the site of origin . |
| 4 | Listening to her talk about the make of corset she wore and the neckline shape that best suited her , speaking on these matters with the kind of solemnity they would only have brought to bear on the country 's economic situation or the future of the United Nations , they regarded her with the polite incomprehension with which they would have looked at a Martian . |
| 5 | In the society they inhabit they will have to choose at the university level between physics and hi-tech ; philosophy and literature may be pursued only as hobbies . |