Example sentences of "he [modal v] have [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think He may have heard me . ’ |
| 2 | Perhaps he should have dropped me further away . |
| 3 | Why he should hold them , why he should so strangely realize them , and above all , why he should have chosen me to be his solitary audience of one , remained a total mystery . |
| 4 | He must have heard me . |
| 5 | 56-56 Spencer , and came right towards me looking at the ground , then looking up quick as he must have sensed me . |
| 6 | I thought he must have stood me up … backed out at the last minute … |
| 7 | He must have taken me there . |
| 8 | He must have rescued me from the canal , because my clothes were wet through , so were his … ’ |
| 9 | I 've got to give him such a tremendous shock that he 'll have to release me . |
| 10 | And if he wants to get rid of me he 'll have to throw me out . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ He should be leaving about now , and if I know him he 'll have left me to pay his hotel bill . |
| 12 | Well I 've got to take his over now , he 'll have to bring me back . |
| 13 | If he lets me go he 'll have to trust me . |
| 14 | You can tell him from me that if he wants me to stay in this urban backwater of yours he 'll have to provide me with an interesting occupation — and I do n't mean modelling your dress . |
| 15 | Even when I recognized MacQuillan and he might have sensed me looking , he did n't glance up at me . |
| 16 | I could guess that he might have asked me what Gharr had asked — what I was doing on Vadinamia . |
| 17 | He might have told me ! ’ she responded bitterly . |
| 18 | ‘ He could have contacted me if he had tried . ’ |
| 19 | I wondered what Stewart Wilson , the Oxford don who had suggested it , would have said if he could have seen me . |
| 20 | Nobody else really liked it , and my dad used to say that he could have sent me any old rubbish in the post and I would have liked it . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ He could have called me Slim . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ He could have warned me . ’ |
| 23 | He could have broken me in two with one hand , but he could not break my spirit . |
| 24 | " He could have given me a ticking off , considering that he 'd gone to the trouble of telling me that you were coming . |
| 25 | Answering back I thought he could have given me a bit more time cos I wanted to say something else and he was |
| 26 | I thought that he could have telephoned me if it were unobtainable but apparently he had n't bothered , and the sheet music was indeed not to be had . |
| 27 | As to the teaching profession , he said that he could have wished me to have obtained a less demanding post , if I wanted to write , because his experience at Highgate School had led him to believe that teaching , if conscientiously undertaken , was one of the most exhausting of occupations ; and , though I do not regret the experience , I was to discover that regarding its rigours he was right . |
| 28 | ‘ Now I realise he could have raped me . ’ |
| 29 | He could have dropped me off the first time ! |
| 30 | ‘ I ‘ m aware that he could have harmed me ! ’ she retorted . |