Example sentences of "he [modal v] have [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is hardly surprising that he should have jumped at the chance of establishing his ‘ Samba school ’ in Paris . |
| 2 | He , too , suffered from an occasional enlightening vision which came to him from the dim past and which he must have suppressed at the time … |
| 3 | In the same way , he might have looked at the conflicts between institutions , genres and styles during the 1890–1930 period ( for instance , between old-fashioned vaudeville and new syncopated styles ; or between the requirements of public dance and private listening ) , rather than just the more homogeneous synthesis established by the time it ended . |
| 4 | St Paul would have walked the streets of Exeter ; he would have come into our schools and offices and shops ; he would have visited the cinemas and sports clubs and night spots ; he would have looked at the news programmes and the daily press and would have used what he saw and heard as fuel for prayer . |
| 5 | In Damascus he would have loved baiting Marwan , the AP reporter , with Nick ; at the Comedy Store he would have laughed at the idea of the song someone had written for him — ‘ The Hills are Alive with the Sound of Bullets ’ ; , and my début at live interviews would have provided another entry for his file of great lines . |