Example sentences of "he [vb mod] have [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | He may have created a settlement overseas which in turn owns an underlying company , which underlying company receives UK dividends . |
4 | It is eminently practical , and he thinks he may have started a trend . |
5 | And he may have taken a drink or two to steady his nerves . |
6 | 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 |
7 | 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 . |
8 | So how he came to be carrying a cannister of CS gas is being invistigated … he may have had an accomplice . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | ‘ He 's circling again but if the undercarriage fails it looks as if he may have to make a crash landing . |
12 | Prior to Theology , he may have pursued an Arts course when he was a young man . |
13 | He may have provided an escape route along Stane Street to Bosham Harbour . |
14 | He may have admitted a friend or relative , although that 's even more doubtful . |
15 | It was thought he may have set a match to it himself . |
16 | ‘ He should have done a bit of minding years ago . ’ |
17 | They claim he should have faced a Crown Court judge for causing death by reckless driving . |
18 | He should have raced a lot more , beaten a lot more people ; he was certainly capable of it . |
19 | He missed a few chances ; reckoned he should have scored a hat-trick . |
20 | It is astonishing that he should have made a riposte about housing benefit being available to the poor for housing costs and to have given the impression that he was in favour of housing benefit . |
21 | He should have made a point of looking at the evening coverage before doing his own piece ; but he 'd seen the people they 'd sent to the press conference at the hospital , dismissed them as unlikely to do a decent job on it , and promptly forgotten them . |
22 | It is surely one of the most cruel twists of fate that a man who has demonstrated such commitment , as well as compassion to overcome so many other problems during his life — and indeed to have helped so many others to have done the same — that he should have become a victim of medical science . |
23 | Although Pond praised him as a ‘ middle-class Englishman … the personification of all their sterling traits and sturdy characteristics ’ , there were problems over whether or not he should have taken a fee for giving a eulogy on his friend , Henry Ward Beecher , at Beecher 's Brooklyn church . |
24 | I thought Collimore had good break three against two and I thought the the ball he should have played he should have measured a ball into er Kingsley Black 's stride . |
25 | I was amused by J. Lipton 's letter in the November issue , in which he says that having driven a nail in the wood , if it splits , he knows he should have used a screw . |
26 | Many believe he should have had a career in professional soccer but in those days , as now , top scouts were unaccountably remiss in visiting ‘ The Tip ’ . |
27 | No one will explain why he should have had a turtle-shell to lie in instead of some more orthodox cradle , but during the anti-monarchical excesses of the French Revolution this venerable carapace is said to have been saved from destruction by a naturalist of Pau , who was able to switch it for one without any such incriminatory associations from his own collection . |
28 | ( He should have won a Nobel Prize for general relativity , but the idea that space and time were curved was still regarded as too speculative and controversial , so they gave him a prize for the photoelectric effect instead — ; not that it was not worth the prize on its own account . ) |
29 | My guess is , he must have written an account . |
30 | I thought he must have gone a bit ga-ga but there was no harm so I went up to my room and did my hair a bit . |