Example sentences of "he [modal v] have [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He may have made a cool £250,000 out of writing George Michael 's biography , but he was cute enough to identify a demand for the tome , and lucky George did n't want to rip him off for the proceeds . |
| 2 | He may have to wait a few years to enter a Tory Cabinet . |
| 3 | There is no simple answer but I think he may have halted a destructive spiral . |
| 4 | And he may have to live a long time with the third . |
| 5 | Alternatively , he may have represented a powerful aristocratic family descended from neither the Deiran nor the Bernician royal family and which was aspiring to royal power for the first time , though the likelihood is that some such affinity was at least claimed . |
| 6 | He may have had a sixth sense about the presence of some stranger in the house ; more likely he saw some physical evidence — a coat , a hat — belonging to a person he knew . |
| 7 | His determination to deny them the ‘ improved living and working conditions , proper social protection , dialogue between management and labour ’ aspired to by the Maastricht social chapter suggest he may have had a different community in mind from the sort outside the gates of Timex . |
| 8 | He is generally unmarried , even though he may have had a shady past which included associating with women . |
| 9 | The man got away but he may have left a vital clue . |
| 10 | In addition to the mycoplasma , Taylor-Robinson thinks he may have found a new anaerobic bacterium ( one that can not live in the presence of oxygen ) which also seems to be associated with NGU . |
| 11 | Is not the Minister deeply ashamed that he intends to carry on with that cruel and stupid tax instead of scrapping it , as he should have done a long time ago ? |
| 12 | But Knox , who was the most brilliant orator of his generation at Oxford — star of the Union , wit , punster in tongues ancient and modern — had left Oxford before the end of the First World War to become a Roman Catholic , and after his return there as chaplain to the Catholics , it was perhaps understandable that he should have kept a low profile . |
| 13 | It was ironical that he should have made a magical 153 against Notts , while England 's batsmen floundered at Old Trafford . |
| 14 | In retrospect , for example , many Gaullists concluded that he should have formed a Gaullist movement of the kind that he formed , too late , in 1947 — a movement that could have channelled popular adulation into usable political support . |
| 15 | So yo , so you 're saying that it should have been explained to the man from West Calder that that 's the sort of , er level of charges he 'd had to pay and if he did n't want to pay it he should have taken a different house ? |
| 16 | All the same , he should have thought a great deal more about what lay behind the exhibits . |
| 17 | She waited to see if McGee would make it back from the drawing room then , fearful lest he should have to ring a second time , she opened the door . |
| 18 | I think he should have got a longer sentence or maybe tried in Crown Court , but not just got away with three months . |
| 19 | I think he should have got a longer sentence or maybe tried in Crown Court , but not just got away with three months . |
| 20 | I think he should have got a longer sentence or maybe tried in Crown Court , but not just got away with three months . |
| 21 | At the very least , he should have had a local policeman with him . |
| 22 | ‘ Things have n't been going well since my England call-up , ’ said Ferdinand , who thought he should have won a late penalty after colliding with Chris Woods . |
| 23 | He must have waved a thousand times , and it was barely ten o'clock . |
| 24 | Minutes later , when Grant estimated he must have covered a good quarter of a mile , he again saw a grey wall barring his passage in the torch beam up ahead . |
| 25 | But the fact that he must have discerned a certain shyness in her responses … |
| 26 | He must have made a little joke . |
| 27 | He must have questioned a hundred people but none could remember seeing the green car . |
| 28 | He must have learnt a great deal from Thomas May , and from him also acquired an enthusiasm for pottery , but he was quick to grasp the crucial principle that the changes in the form of some vessels was due to a chronological development , an idea that had eluded May , who never rose much above the level of that of ‘ an indefatigable draughtsman ’ , as his Antiquaries ' obituary rather dismissively calls him . |
| 29 | He must have taken a thousand pictures with people . |
| 30 | He must have taken a short cut that she had n't noticed on her way down , as they arrived back at the house sooner than she was expecting and went straight to the veranda , where Faye still lay on the lounger , enjoying a long drink of iced water . |