Example sentences of "he [modal v] have [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Because the flight path he was following when we first located him would have taken him to Ankara in Turkey , or some place pretty close by . |
| 2 | The board saying they wanted to sell him will have made him think ‘ Why not , no point hanging round where I 'm not wanted ’ . |
| 3 | " He may have made it , but Fiver thought of it for us , " answered Hazel . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ He may have done it before , and said nothing to me because he knew I would n't approve . |
| 6 | ‘ He quit after a fairly short time — I think he may have done it for only two terms . |
| 7 | I know her well , and how brave she is , and by God , for whatever he may have done he shall pay , and pay again . |
| 8 | He may have to ask you to repeat some of your own words , too . |
| 9 | I think He may have heard me . ’ |
| 10 | He may have met her while doing business with her father Robert , a tea dealer in Crutched Friars , or her brothers , who were all coopers in Stepney ; sales talk for the men , but softer words for the lady — one who was shortly to become his wife . |
| 11 | I think that he may have given her the choice . |
| 12 | It was a sensible decision and he may have taken it in full awareness of this . |
| 13 | He may have had it planned as a mausoleum before his death or friends may have erected it to his memory . |
| 14 | Eadmer 's explanation of Anselm 's silence is interesting — indeed , he may have had it from Anselm himself : |
| 15 | He may not have lost his ability to balance , or he may have relearned it through his therapy sessions . |
| 16 | To be fair to John he may have thought he was on an already completed route , but the absence of the first bolt , a well established sign of a ‘ projet ’ , should have been respected . |
| 17 | He may have felt nervous about having plundered Calcutta or he may have thought he had done enough to show who was master in Bengal , but in any case he withdrew and paid the Company some compensation for its losses . |
| 18 | However much he may have charmed them , they were her friends not his , and they 'd have inevitably sided with her in this fiasco . |
| 19 | Pausanias thought Myrtilos was under the heads of Oenomaus 's horses , but since he certainly took the girl for male he may have meant her . |
| 20 | He may have found him sleeping in the porch . |
| 21 | For instance , he may have found it impossible to meet his parents ' aspirations for him and never attained a secure relationship with them , or he may have repeatedly been told he was unlovable and incompetent , or he may have experienced actual loss of a parent . |
| 22 | He may have known her all her life , but when the tits appeared he 'd had his tongue hanging out just like all the rest . |
| 23 | ‘ If she knew about the book , he may have told her about the contents , too . ’ |
| 24 | He may have told you we 've now handed over the Nissan Sunny to John and replaced it with a new bright-red Micra ( the one with the cuddly toy-car image ) . |
| 25 | if John Major intended the bill to convince the right of his radical instincts , he may have misjudged them . |
| 26 | He knew May was not unhappy , but he did n't like to think he may have bored her . |
| 27 | Well and even that did n't jog his memory , that he should have asked her to judge it ! |
| 28 | If someone had suggested he should have killed them then , where they lay , and avert all the trouble that was to come , Dulé would have been astonished that such a cowardly procedure could be proposed , let alone seriously entertained . |
| 29 | He should have tied it . |
| 30 | That 's not too bad actually except the day the young men loaded it back onto the trailer when we 'd finished and it was one of these corners , and I happened to be muggins on the corner where that lever was , and he had n't tied it , it was only in the ratchet , you know , he should have tied it of course . |