Example sentences of "he [modal v] have [verb] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He should have referred it to Management and Personnel over in Great George Street and let the Security Division sort it out . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He must have worried himself to death just because he was afraid to tell me . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ So , if Jordan put them there he must have wanted them to be found — why ? |
| 8 | He must have supposed himself to be using a language absolutely purged of metaphor when he wrote at the grand climax of the Discourse on method |
| 9 | The name Tolkien , he once remarked in a letter , is based on the German word for foolhardy : which is what , when he finally had his huge romance published , he must have supposed himself to be . |
| 10 | He says he 'll have to break it to them now . |
| 11 | He 'll have to read it to you next . |
| 12 | But how on earth could he say that , any more than he could have said it to Miss Trimm ? |
| 13 | He wished he could have invited him to dinner that night . |
| 14 | ‘ His indifference pushed her to the edge whereas he could have romanced her to the end of the world . |
| 15 | ‘ Be quiet , child , ’ said Philip , laying a hand restrainingly on Harry 's arm , though he would have preferred to lay it about his ears if he could have had him to himself for a moment . |
| 16 | No , he 'd have given it to her at the hospital . |
| 17 | Cos he 'd have taken them to court and said well he did n't even pay it , I did ! |
| 18 | Well , he might have kept one as a spare , but I rather suspect he 'd have handed it to a friend with strict instructions to thrash it to death and to return it in five years ’ time … |
| 19 | From now on , he would have to devote himself to private achievements . |
| 20 | Now originally he would have given it to the servers who would have taken it out here . |
| 21 | He would have said it to no one else . |
| 22 | But , for Colin 's sake , he would have to put it to her . |
| 23 | Otherwise ( the point is surely an obvious one ) he would have limited himself to verbal argument . |
| 24 | He would have liked her to be indebted to him for something . |
| 25 | If I had screamed or tried to escape he would have battered me to death . |
| 26 | Not that he would have admitted it to his men . |
| 27 | He would have to get her to co operate . |
| 28 | As we talked , I felt that if I had pressed him he would have loaned it to me anyway , but the Land Rover was necessary for the research programme and it would have been irresponsible to put John 's work at risk . |
| 29 | If it had been a man who had called him that to his face , he would have smashed him to a pulp . |
| 30 | If there had been a train on his section , he would have offered it to me . ’ |