Example sentences of "they [modal v] have [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Either of them may have seen the killer . |
| 2 | Earlier , and none of them might have survived the ritual of the tunnel of terror … |
| 3 | Their total vote of 1,510 was 600 votes short of Conaty ( Independent ) with 2134 , and no amount of vote transfer between them could have postponed the elimination of any of them until after Conaty . |
| 4 | There was no question , of course , as to which of them would have to put the proposal for ‘ protection ’ to Cowley . |
| 5 | Her husband , Uncle George , and their two daughters , Maggie and Marie , were like her , extremely short — not one of them would have reached the five foot mark . |
| 6 | Either of them would have grabbed the hand . |
| 7 | have there been , to its knowledge , rights exercisable by or on behalf of two or more limited undertakings which if exercisable by one of them would have made the company a subsidiary of it , nor |
| 8 | Nobody thought trade could be carried on in India without a network of factories and fortifications , which meant that there would have to be a company with a charter to run them — the idea that the government might provide them would have struck the merchants as inappropriate and would have alarmed the politicians who would have had to impose taxes to pay for them . |
| 9 | ‘ You 'd have thought one of them would have had the balls , ’ said one wet who voted for Mrs Thatcher on the grounds that no serious candidate had come forward . |
| 10 | He did n't know their long-term histories , but each one of them would have had the break far back , hooked into it , started climbing . |
| 11 | Metaponto , bordered by golden sandy beaches , is such an ancient town where , according to legend , they may have built the famed and historic Trojan Horse . |
| 12 | Since his privateering interests encouraged him to favour the continuance of war , they may have balanced the pension from Spain in forming his attitude to the peace negotiations . |
| 13 | They may have to ask the Hong Kong Union for financial assistance in order to summon a replacement from home . |
| 14 | The other monkeys might have been responding to a visual signal or they may have seen the leopard themselves . |
| 15 | They may have sacked the Chancellor but they 're still committed to capitalism and economic policy which is diametrically opposed to any form of such a justice . |
| 16 | Or they may have charged the five hundred at twenty five percent in which case they need n't then make any adjustment on his code . |
| 17 | The individuals may function well in different compartments , and while they may have inhabited the same house for 30 years , believing they are together , they may , in fact , not be together as far as their hopes and expectations go , so it is terribly important that they voice these things to their partners . |
| 18 | Behind the scenes they may have affected the prime minister directly . |
| 19 | He may well have been scorned , he may well have lost his job bad word may have got back to Rome , they may have sent the telegrams back to Caesar telling him all about Pilate , but it was n't sufficient reason for him rejecting Christ . |
| 20 | Either that , or they may have practised the oldest and surest method of them all for preventing unwanted pregnancies — abstinence from sexual relations . |
| 21 | That is still the government 's public view , but it is understood that privately ministers have conceded they may have to change the law in three or four years . |
| 22 | They may have had the unsettling experience of living in three different households — the original family , an interim family with only one parent — and the newly-formed stepfamily . |
| 23 | They were sometimes the heads of administrative units known as hundreds — hundredal manors with some of the characteristics of a town , and they may have had the minster church , upon which the churches elsewhere on the estate were dependent . |
| 24 | But they may have to face the fact that their own view of his department 's policy needs are irrelevant to the main problem being tackled within it , or even that their own commitments lead in quite opposite directions to the ones being taken by those concerned with policy innovation in the department . |
| 25 | Er , if they say that er , they should be er , a balance or reserve put in by constituent authorities then we will have the money available to do that , if we did n't then they may have frozen the reserves that are already there and asked us to put some more money in as well . |
| 26 | In this sense , they may have occupied the same position in the Minoan religious system as angels and demons in the Christian belief-system in medieval Europe . |
| 27 | And they may have chosen the most expensive . |
| 28 | what you 're implying is that how that they had a radical policy in mind but because of the war it had to be moderated but I , somehow I tend to believe the reverse , that how that they may have continued the moderate policy but was forced into it because of circumstances to , forced to erm into radicalizing their policies . |
| 29 | The choice of Aquitaine is then linked variously to the ability of the people of that part of Gaul to pay , the possibility that they may have backed the wrong side in the recent usurpations against the emperor Honorius , and the threat from separatist groups north of the Loire , who were known as Bacaudae . |
| 30 | I 'd written to them , and I feel they may have got the letter in time . ’ |