Example sentences of "[noun pl] he [modal v] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Piggy is short-sighted ; and the spectacles he would have been prescribed for this condition could not possibly have been used as burning glasses . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | If he fails in two subjects he will have to repeat the year even if he does well in all other subjects . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In less than five months he would have finished his studies here . |
| 11 | At Beaulieu Abbey near Loches he would have seen the piece of stone from the Holy Sepulchre which his notoriously savage ancestor Count Fulk the Black was believed to have bitten off while kneeling down to pray there on one of his three pilgrimages to Jerusalem . |
| 12 | When he 'd switched the plates he 'd have to give some thought to ways of raising a little cash to live on . |
| 13 | With his keys he could have got into any part . ’ |
| 14 | He announced at the beginning of that year that ‘ if Hitler had worn a dhoti he could have mistaken his mystical approach to life for that of Mr Gandhi ’ . |
| 15 | The most important of these , the sheer efficiency of collection , was also the reason why Walpole found such political and popular resistance in trying to move towards an excise-based system , although over the century most of the commodities he would have included in his general excise did find their way into its embrace . |
| 16 | Reading between the lines he would have seen her secret fear for the future . |
| 17 | Farmers are facing increasing uncertainty about the future , but at least Brian Lloyd knows how many lambs he 'll have . |
| 18 | all models he must have |
| 19 | There were after all a dozen appropriate texts he could have quoted . |
| 20 | In any other circumstances he would have warmed to her ; he had found her especially disturbing . |
| 21 | Under different circumstances he would have preferred to cover things over , the illegitimacy for one . |
| 22 | I did n't have time to stop him , ’ he said , suggesting that under any other circumstances he would have downed the suspect with a flying tackle . |
| 23 | Under ordinary circumstances he might have got the second but they responded to his aggression with speed and efficiency , bottling him up again with a hail of bullets — bullets fired from very close range . |
| 24 | If he was a bit deadlier in the balls he 'd have been world champion . ’ |
| 25 | Any expectations he may have had of inheriting a larger share of the Angevin Empire were fading fast . |
| 26 | Guynemer once claimed that if the Germans used such planes he could have guaranteed a bag of one a day . |
| 27 | I believe that if Piggy had not had so many physical defects he would have been allowed to make himself heard . |
| 28 | The way I put it was intentional and I think if we had n't been sitting in full view of some dozen of the hotel 's guests he would have hit me . |
| 29 | In the old days he would have been amused and asked her how she 'd done it . |
| 30 | To many in those days he would have reminded them of Jesus . |