Example sentences of "he [modal v] have be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Jesus ’ as we have him may have been filtered through the patriarchal world which remembered him and wrote about him ( if the biblical authors were male ) . |
| 2 | It 's him should 've been coming home tonight . |
| 3 | Well I I think its , the way that the plaintiff puts the case on that point my Lord is that even if the defendant Mr took the view er that it would not have been proper for such a notice to be served , in view of what the plaintiff was saying to him about his wish to get out of the contract , the fact that it was available to him should have been brought to his attention and then as Mr was saying that I sorry I do n't feel I can do this on your behalf because it 's not proper in the circumstances or whatever erm , should then have gone on to advise the plaintiff either to do it himself or to go and seek independent advice . |
| 4 | The magazine had been consuming too much of his time even though , ideally , he ought to have been devoting more to it . |
| 5 | ‘ He ought to have been stopped from buying the paper in the first place , ’ he said . |
| 6 | Then in his fifth year at the school , when he ought to have been aiming for his school certificate which was the next and essential passport for that golden educated future , he left abruptly to work as a haberdasher 's assistant in the local Co-operative store . |
| 7 | According to one report , he told a group of journalists that he believed he ought to have been given the interim presidency . |
| 8 | Alongside rich , corrupt and irresistible Sir Jack Falstaff is the young Prince Hal , wandering far from his true royal path , mixing with thieves and wastrels when he ought to have been studying to be a king . |
| 9 | He ought to have been reminded of their joint suffering before he committed his fault . |
| 10 | He and his men had killed three Germans in this house when he burst into a back room and was probably killed by a fourth German hiding there , although he may have been hit from across the street . |
| 11 | Or he may have been stripped to delay any identification , I suppose . |
| 12 | He was associated with the Augustinian abbey of Scone and the Scottish chapel royal at Stirling ; the addition ‘ alias arnat ’ to his signature , which occurs three times in the manuscript , suggests that he may have been related to David Arnot , archdeacon of Lothian and later bishop of the chapel royal . |
| 13 | His parents have not been identified , though he may have been related to a family of Purneys in Buckinghamshire . |
| 14 | He may have been conducting a formal press conference in very informal dress at a most abnormal time . |
| 15 | It was June ; it was Bexhill-on-Sea ; he may have been reading the county scores . |
| 16 | But he may have been wearing a dark ski cap of the Deerhunter style . |
| 17 | But he may have been wearing a dark ski cap of the Deerhunter style . |
| 18 | He may have been wearing a green bomber jacket . |
| 19 | ‘ I believe he may have been trying to contact me . |
| 20 | As we were paying our visit at the end of the morning , he may have been dressed ready for the office . |
| 21 | He may have been drunk , but his participation was not serious . |
| 22 | He may have been influenced by his early days as a teenager in Cairo with his uncle or during his time in Hamburg . |
| 23 | He may have been influenced by the views of the parliamentary reformer Major Cartwright who at this time was on an organisational subcommittee . |
| 24 | Thereafter he may have been engaged in wholesale dealing in corn and wool , though it is more probable that he continued to lend money under the guise of advancing money against future payment of commodities . |
| 25 | If this reconstruction is sound , Oswiu 's encounter with Fín occurred at about the time that he may have been seeking Irish support against the forces of Penda . |
| 26 | He may have been missed on 96 by Morris , low at mid-wicket ; Morris may have decided that sections of the crowd would riot if he held it . |
| 27 | Is it so likely that that man , however much he may have been struck by your beauty and gaiety , Miss Jonathan , would have at once decided to assassinate your future husband ? ’ |
| 28 | He may have been inspired by the fact that the choristers of Magdalen College , Oxford , sing a Latin hymn at the top of the tower there to greet May Day . |
| 29 | When he ‘ resigned ’ as a BBC radio producer in 1986 , he may have been pushed , but it was the start of a freelance career guaranteed to outrage the good citizens of Britain with a style of comedy that ranges from the macabre to the indecent . |
| 30 | He may have been connected with the Pemyll family of Egerton . |