Example sentences of "[noun sg] on [pron] [modal v] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's no point in dwelling on what might have been . |
| 2 | She might live to rue this impetuous decision , but at least she 'd never look back with regret on what might have been if only she 'd had the courage to dare . |
| 3 | From this point on he might have been in Oz for all he knew . |
| 4 | In the same period , Arthur Young , subsidized by the big landlords to promote agricultural improvement , put his finger on what must have been a general attitude , when he described cattle-stealers in the Lincolnshire fens : ‘ So wild a country nurses up a race of people as wild as the fen , and thus the morals and eternal welfare of numbers are hazarded and ruined for want of an inclosure . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ To get back to Sir Conrad , sir , and taking as a working hypothesis that he was murdered by an insider , I would welcome your advice on what might have been the motive . ’ |
| 6 | But it is appropriate to ask whether the brutal attack on her would have happened if she had been armed with the kind of baton the Home Secretary has banned . |
| 7 | The character , in fact , was last seen disappearing from the Close on what would have been her daughter 's most memorable day . |
| 8 | The BBC planned to give the film a third airing on what would have been the admiral 's eightieth birthday , and when this became known we were approached by Lord Brabourne , Mountbatten 's son-in-law , to say that his cousin Prince Charles who , as everyone knew , adored his uncle , wanted to pay him a personal tribute . |
| 9 | Fine golden hairs , which but for the sunlight on them would have been invisible , shone against the soft brown skin of her thigh . |
| 10 | But ‘ Shakespeare 's Sister ’ ( which took its title from a Virginia Woolf essay on what would have happened if the bard had been female , a different way of looking at women although one has to search hard to find any reference to this in the actual song ) was hardly the band 's most shining masterwork , merely a jumble or rock and rockabilly plummeting through 129 seconds which fail to motivate the memory cells . |
| 11 | I 'm telling you , you wo n't have the fire on you 'll have the bleeding lot on . |