Example sentences of "he [modal v] have [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From Oxford he may have travelled into the south-west . |
| 2 | It looks like he may have travelled under an assumed name , God knows why . ’ |
| 3 | At least , he may have begun in a monastery , but in the event he took orders and was for years a junior pastor somewhere in Worcestershire . |
| 4 | He lived at Charing Cross in 1585 , in 1589–90 in Writtington , Essex , by 1596 he writes from ‘ my house in Hamsell Park , Sussex ’ , while early in the 1600s he may have lived for a time in Isleworth , Middlesex . |
| 5 | Although the government continued to think him dangerous — and there are signs that he may have remained in the revamped United Irish movement during his brother 's imprisonment — in 1803 he advised Thomas Russell [ q.v. ] against rebellion and there is no evidence of treasonable activity thereafter . |
| 6 | ‘ He tells me he may have to go into a rest home . |
| 7 | He may have looked like a bank-clerk but he had the heart of a poet , whether he wrote in iambic pentameters or the plain but effective doggerel of the common man . |
| 8 | His system seems to have evolved by 1807 , whereby he made pencil drawings of exceptional quality , sometimes with marginal notes on colours , light , sun position , and any licence he may have taken with the topography . |
| 9 | It 's thought he may have collapsed from the shock of the burglary . |
| 10 | One anonymous caller told police he thought he had been in prison with the man during the 1960s and another believed he may have worked with the kidnapper two years ago . |
| 11 | He may have blundered into the area after losing his way . |
| 12 | He may have fought in the army raiding England between 1009 and 1012 , and certainly assisted in Cnut 's conquest of 1015 – 16 , subsequently receiving the earldom of Northumbria . |
| 13 | But the cruellest experiences the victim 's pain however great as less than his own enhancement of power however small , so that the suffering of a victim who is being crippled for life may be deliberately empathized by the torturer , but as less than his own titillation , which he may have forgotten by the time he goes home to lunch . |
| 14 | He may have shared in the Puritan tendency of Cranbrook ; his published works were all printed for the London theological bookseller , Philemon Stephens , and produced in the early 1650s , at a time when publication in both the learned languages and the vernacular greatly increased . |
| 15 | He may have come as a very self- satisfied person , after all , socially , he had made it . |
| 16 | He may have cooperated with the Danes in some way at the siege of Canterbury in 1011 , and it was maybe in 1023 that he received the bishopric of Sherborne after the expulsion of Bishop Brihtwine . |
| 17 | Afterwards he asked himself whether he did all that he should have done about the miners and the working men . |
| 18 | Second , Y never gave possession of the car to his customer ( M ) as he should have done after the finance company ( Z ) had accepted the hire purchase proposal . |
| 19 | It was a remark he should have reserved for an aging Peruvian marksman called Cubillas . |
| 20 | He should have waited for a better moment instead of acting impulsively . |
| 21 | He should have built on the team which won the title in 1991 , and bought quality players . |
| 22 | He should have stayed in the bosom of his family . |
| 23 | It is hardly surprising that he should have jumped at the chance of establishing his ‘ Samba school ’ in Paris . |
| 24 | He should have gone for a walk on the Downs or gone shopping in the town for antiques , or spent the morning browsing in bookshops . |
| 25 | In France meanwhile , Dominique Stehelin , a director of research for the National Centre for Scientific Research at the Pasteur Institute in Lille , said he should have shared in the prize . |
| 26 | He should have returned to the open prison on the tenth of August . |
| 27 | ‘ He should have put on a pair of tights and joined his daddy in front of the fairy-lights . ’ |
| 28 | He should have known from the first that the chasm which lay between them would not be so easy to cross . |
| 29 | He was too honourable : he should have disappeared with the rest of his men . |
| 30 | There was no medical problem highlighted that he knew about that he should have disclosed on the form . |