Example sentences of "[noun] he [modal v] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I told him that he is violent , has mistreated her very badly , have been trigger happy and whatever kindness he might have done for her he had cancelled by beatings and threats he had made on her life . |
| 2 | It had n't , and the horse he would have put money on had won by a length , and he was twelve-and-six out of pocket . |
| 3 | Startled , he turned , but Therese had darted , scooping her peacock train up over one arm , back around behind the screen , to the side he should have been on . |
| 4 | With two broken legs he 'd have starved to death if he had n't been cared for … now he can look forward to a rather more chirpy 1992 . |
| 5 | That he managed to summon enough energy to make any collections at all during his stay is something of a miracle ; had he been more thorough and punctilious in his methods he would have saved history , as well as himself , a lot of time and trouble when it came to corroborating the theories that were to bring him such fame , and infamy , many years later . |
| 6 | Mr Fairley said : ‘ If he was in his bedroom he would have had to run past a gauntlet of flame . |
| 7 | If B is to avoid his application to Strasbourg being declared inadmissible for failure to exhaust domestic remedies he will have to show that he is absolved from having had to raise the issue of the reach of the Gallagher jurisdiction before the House of Lords because legal advice , erroneous but not wholly unreasonable , suggested either that the House would not hear his arguments or that the relisting option remained open . |
| 8 | He spoke in a flat monotone , suppressing all the emotion he might have felt . |
| 9 | If he had bumped into anyone worthy of half a mention he would have told us . |
| 10 | In the future he will have to decide what crops and livestock to produce . |
| 11 | I was to do the counting — up to a hundred ( I could n't count up to a hundred , I had to do it in tens ) and when I opened my eyes he 'd have disappeared . |
| 12 | Piggy is short-sighted ; and the spectacles he would have been prescribed for this condition could not possibly have been used as burning glasses . |
| 13 | The ministry , he said , was arguing over how many carers Mr Robinson required , the sort of car he should have and the extent of his potential loss of earnings . |
| 14 | If he needed a sympathetic ear for his worries he would have probably got one from Alphonse Chapanis , director of the Communications Research Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland . |
| 15 | The family needed help to discuss these unhappy times with Darren and understand the immense distress and confusion he must have felt . |
| 16 | It is plain that just like Bach he must have owned several — indeed , the wording of his will implies as much . |
| 17 | For the same outlay he could have hired 120 childminders at £2 an hour or ten secretaries at £25 an hour . |
| 18 | To take the photograph he must have stood on the edge of the wood , under the beech hedge which bounded it perhaps . |
| 19 | If the crime had been other than murder he would have left it to his Scientific Officer assistant , not yet returned from a belated lunch . |
| 20 | This guy when he the policeman spoke to him afterwards , his words to the policeman Now let's bear in mind he might have been in shock . |
| 21 | ‘ Looking back , what he said is really strange , bearing in mind he must have been murdered a little while later . ’ |
| 22 | As anyone but Richard himself might have predicted , the palpable , screaming existence of his daughter , Holly , assuaged whatever doubts he might have had about his readiness for parenthood . |
| 23 | If Frankenstein had been some sort of intelligent creepy-crawly , Ace thought , that 's the kind of monster he 'd have built . |
| 24 | It was so damned unfair that Henry was n't the complete charlatan he should have been . |
| 25 | Whatever scientific ambition he may have had was not matched by his ability . |
| 26 | If he fails in two subjects he will have to repeat the year even if he does well in all other subjects . |
| 27 | Jean-Claude expected me to respect all his fads — especially the fuss and nonsense about the particular brand of coffee-beans he must have , and how he had to grind them himself , give the machine at least one hundred turns , sit comfortably . |
| 28 | I am not obsessed with Jeopardy , but simply concerned about the effect he could have on our society . ’ |
| 29 | Subconsciously , she must have sensed the potent effect he could have on her , an instinctive recognition of the dangerous power he would assume if once she had known his touch . |
| 30 | And with Forest still at the bottom of the Premier League , Clough insisted : ‘ If I 'd waited to offer him the contract after Saturday he may have blown it . |