Example sentences of "she [modal v] have [vb pp] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | She ought to have hated the child she was carrying , it being the cause of her return to squalor after the effort she had made to rise above it , but since she 'd felt it move she could n't reject it . |
2 | She felt she ought to have bought a card . |
3 | She may have made a mess of her life ; she may have faced problems beyond your comprehension . |
4 | Mrs Gunner 's ex-husband was preparing to fly to Faro last night clinging to hopes that she may have missed the flight . |
5 | In a clipped French sentence that sounded as if it had been well rehearsed , she told Agathe that she may have lost the produce of her labour but she had not lost the fruit of her labours . |
6 | She may have discovered a nest of young rabbits , a delicacy indeed in her terms , had a very good meal and then gone off to sleep within the rabbit 's nest . |
7 | She may have killed a rabbit in a spot — a dead-end , for example — where it prevents her escape by blocking the burrow . |
8 | She can complete a course double with BAGGRAVE LAD ( 3.15 ) in the Orbital Centre NH Flat race and earlier at Ludlow she may have initiated a treble by winning with her dual bumper winner RUN TO FORM ( 12.30 ) . |
9 | I have been told by an old Rochdale colleague of hers that she may have married a doctor and that he thinks she was left a cottage in Tonypandy some time in the mid to late 1960s . |
10 | Certainly she was desperately trying to raise money , and one John Crosse , with whom she may have had an affair , was involved . |
11 | She may have read the remarks made yesterday by the Association of British Chambers of Commerce , which made its position perfectly clear on the agreement at Maastricht . |
12 | She may have got the idea from them . |
13 | This suggestion wo n't help Mrs Mitchell with her hedgehog of course and I 'm sorry about that , but she may have helped the rest of us to avoid the problem . |
14 | She was probably prepared to trust the cardinal archbishop when he undertook to guarantee her son 's safety and , even if she had doubts , she may have preferred an arrangement involving Bourgchier to the risk of forcing Gloucester into unilateral action . |
15 | She was probably prepared to trust the cardinal archbishop when he undertook to guarantee her son 's safety and , even if she had doubts , she may have preferred an arrangement involving Bourgchier to the risk of forcing Gloucester into unilateral action . |
16 | ‘ Then she may have taken the poison for one of the spices . |
17 | She may have used the window as a convenient piece of misdirection , or she may have opened it to let Latimer in . |
18 | She must 've made a mistake — Marie said she 'd write to me . |
19 | But she i if they say she 's made a payment , she must have made a payment . |
20 | He , too , checked with the police and rang back to confirm that Derek had not been arrested and that he felt she must have made a mistake . |
21 | She waited a moment for the signal to appear somewhere on the grid , then leaned forward to key the search sequence again , thinking she must have made a mistake . |
22 | She must have made a mistake herself . |
23 | Eva has never been one to indulge in self pity but she must have missed the warmth of the Australian sun , and the family back home . |
24 | When Mrs Handy went to the sink she must have touched the machine and up to two hundred and forty volts passed through her body . |
25 | ‘ She must have liked a book of mine , ’ he said . |
26 | I think she must have seen a lot of things at that time which had made her the way she was , seen things in the blackout and in the underground stations . |
27 | Young girls feel things so deeply … she must have seen no future at all . |
28 | As I went one way she must have gone the other . |
29 | She was sitting with her back to him , and did not turn round even though she must have heard the sound of horse 's hooves on the hard pebbled path behind her . |
30 | Merseyside Coroner Roy Barter told the Liverpool hearing that she must have inhaled the bacteria as it floated through the air as vapour from a contaminated hot water outlet . |