Example sentences of "he [modal v] have [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gundobad fled to Avignon , where he may have received Visigothic support . |
| 2 | Pearce has been told he may have to sell top players such as David Leworthy , the league 's leading scorer , or Dean Coney in a bid to balance the books . |
| 3 | Accordingly , it is not clear what rights are accepted by the transferee ; he may have accepted non-existing rights relying upon fraudulent information in a receipt message transmitted to him by someone pretending to be the carrier . |
| 4 | Given the complexities of Merovingian family politics , Chlothar 's denial of paternity is not conclusive : he may have had good reason to disassociate himself from Gundovald 's mother . |
| 5 | ‘ Perhaps not , and he may have had sentimental reasons for going to the little hut , but I want to be sure . |
| 6 | For instance , he may have found it impossible to meet his parents ' aspirations for him and never attained a secure relationship with them , or he may have repeatedly been told he was unlovable and incompetent , or he may have experienced actual loss of a parent . |
| 7 | He should have taken great pride in having so very much pleased the world with his choice . |
| 8 | One highly ‘ political ’ Lord Chancellor — like Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone — can , if he chooses , make a considerable impact on judicial lawmaking at the highest level but , for this to be so , it is not necessary that he should have held political office or have been a Member of Parliament or a law officer . |
| 9 | The application of this incorrect test may have materially affected the judge 's decision , since he may well have considered that the children 's welfare overrode the mother 's wishes and feelings , a matter to which he should have had particular regard under section 10(9) ( d ) ( ii ) . |
| 10 | He probably went twice to Spain with Scipio Aemilianus , in 151 and in 134 ; on his first journey he must have visited southern France , including Marseilles ( Polyb. 3.59.7 ) . |
| 11 | Nothing certain is known of Hammond 's career from then until the eve of the civil war , but he must have seen military service in the continental wars , either in the Netherlands or Germany , since he was a trained gunnery officer before 1642 . |
| 12 | If , however , Shakespeare did actually exist , then he must have possessed certain attributes that made him the kind of existent he was , even though no attributes that he may have had would have been sufficient to individuate him in a metaphysical sense . |
| 13 | There is no record of Jamie Macrae 's early career but he must have made steady progress . |
| 14 | It is clear to all of us that he must have discarded poor Lina … ’ |
| 15 | He 's a sadistic man — he must have taken great pleasure in working over Joe last night . " |
| 16 | ‘ Bank robbery is a very serious crime and he must have known considerable violence would be involved as he provided the sledge hammer , ’ said Judge Hart . |
| 17 | They watched him trying to free himself , as he must have tried countless times before . |
| 18 | He 'll have to establish mutual trust . |
| 19 | ‘ He 'll have to have residential care , ’ said Nina . |
| 20 | In 1963 he fell only 31 votes short of being elected Labour leader ; he might have become prime minister . |
| 21 | Then afraid he might have sounded gallant George added : ‘ Somebody 's got to make sure your military instinct for loot does n't take over . ’ |
| 22 | Of course , he might have had dental work done abroad . " |
| 23 | Ace suddenly realized he might have taken other damage . |
| 24 | Whether this is too optimistic or not , the phenomenon he describes and he could have added other examples , from Afro-American ‘ street-corner ’ vocal groups or Jamaican reggae , for instance — is clearly not amenable to an Adornian analysis , based on a dichotomy between a radically fragmenting division of labour , on the one hand , and an integrating individual consciousness , on the other . |
| 25 | It is difficult now to realise the scandalised horror with which not only the critics , but the general public in the 1920s and 1930s , greeted the fact that he could have used Victorian magazine illustrations fro producing the series of paintings called Echoes , or make portraits from press or publicity portraits of people such as the Prince of Wales , or public events such as Miss Earhart 's Arrival of 1932 . |
| 26 | ‘ He 'd have got lost ages before we did . |
| 27 | In some of these the non-assertive quality of the utterance is fairly easy to perceive nevertheless : ( 66 ) He dared as much have opposed his wife 's whims as he dare have committed high treason . |
| 28 | If there had been room in the hallway , he would have swung Wee Charlie round in a circle . |
| 29 | She had only seen Johnny dressed in what she supposed must be the nineteen forties ' version of casual wear ; but , of course , when he was formally attired he would have worn starched collars with his shirt , detachable and fastened with one of the studs which she now held in her hand . |
| 30 | Doctor Sloan of Ayr who conducted a post mortem examination on John was approached later by a group of old miners with the question , The doctor confessed that he had not paid particular attention to the man 's feet , whereat the miners went off with knowing expressions on their faces ; superstition had convinced them that if the doctor had looked he would have seen cloven hoofs , proving that the devil had appeared in the guise of John Brown for some evil purpose of his own . |