Example sentences of "he [modal v] have [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Palmerston then interrupted , saying that he ought to have consulted the House first . |
| 2 | He captured three quick wickets before Richards and Lloyd ( who passed 7,000 Test runs ) steadied the ship , but then had Richards lbw , although umpire Meyer later admitted that he may have made a mistake and had considered recalling the batsman . |
| 3 | He may have made a cool £250,000 out of writing George Michael 's biography , but he was cute enough to identify a demand for the tome , and lucky George did n't want to rip him off for the proceeds . |
| 4 | Mike Phelan looked like he may have discovered a passage into the second round with a fierce drive which spun off a defender with the goalkeeper stranded . |
| 5 | He may have to wait a few years to enter a Tory Cabinet . |
| 6 | His parents believe he may have wanted the money to buy a house . |
| 7 | Mr. Gardiner argued that Walton J. erred in a number of respects although he may have reached the right answer by the wrong route . |
| 8 | Not only do they hold good against the trustee himself , and against his creditors during his life-time and his representatives after his death , but also against all to whom he may have transferred the property , and who can not show that they acquired it for value and without notice of the trust . |
| 9 | There is no simple answer but I think he may have halted a destructive spiral . |
| 10 | Alternatively , he may have devised the anti-clerical legislation of the period 1529 to 1533 as a weapon to bludgeon the pope into granting the annulment , only to resort to the supremacy as an emergency measure when Anne Boleyn became pregnant in 1533 . |
| 11 | No record exists of his education : he may have attended the grammar school at Bury St Edmunds or a charity school in nearby Hawstead maintained by a kinsman , Sir Dudley Cullum , who became his brother-in-law in 1710 . |
| 12 | He may have heard the cow moaning as she gave birth , his ears sensitized to noises the rest of us would not have heard , as we sat talking and laughing around the fire . |
| 13 | ‘ He may have contravened the rules you devised , for your admittedly entertaining method of execution by single combat . |
| 14 | He may have created a settlement overseas which in turn owns an underlying company , which underlying company receives UK dividends . |
| 15 | Dante would appear to have seen a striking clock at least fifteen years before the Visconti clock of 1335 was installed ; he may have seen the iron clock placed in the campanile of the church of Sant' Eustorgio in Milan in 1309 — the first Italian public clock of which we have knowledge . |
| 16 | It seems unlikely that Minkowski would have come across Smith 's earlier work directly , but he may have seen the reference to them in a paper of Ferdinand Frobenius , which appeared in the main German mathematical journal shortly before the competition was announced . |
| 17 | He may have seen the continental ice cap , raised by mirage . |
| 18 | Although there is no evidence that Horace Walpole ( who died on 2 March 1797 ) ever attended College meetings it is pleasant to think that he may have formed the undiscovered link between Lord Camden and the as yet unlocated Veterinary College . |
| 19 | Even if the lobbyist is not entirely successful in putting across his point of view , he may have limited the potential damage of the new legislation . |
| 20 | And he may have to live a long time with the third . |
| 21 | Alternatively , he may have represented a powerful aristocratic family descended from neither the Deiran nor the Bernician royal family and which was aspiring to royal power for the first time , though the likelihood is that some such affinity was at least claimed . |
| 22 | It is eminently practical , and he thinks he may have started a trend . |
| 23 | Here he may have got the idea from a later , but heavily revised and largely independent , version of the duet , included in an appendix to the volume ( pp 439–41 ) . |
| 24 | But at that stage he may have valued the intellectual stimulus that a closer intercourse with Jesuit astronomers seemed to promise . |
| 25 | And he may have taken a drink or two to steady his nerves . |
| 26 | He is generally unmarried , even though he may have had a shady past which included associating with women . |
| 27 | Most of the printed newsbooks now attributed to Mabbott 's editorship were probably not written by him , although there is some evidence that he may have had a hand in The Perfect Diurnall ( 1642–55 ) , edited by Samuel Pecke . |
| 28 | No , no he was n't well , I went to see her er I think he may have had a stroke and he ca n't get about very well at all |
| 29 | He may have had a sixth sense about the presence of some stranger in the house ; more likely he saw some physical evidence — a coat , a hat — belonging to a person he knew . |
| 30 | His determination to deny them the ‘ improved living and working conditions , proper social protection , dialogue between management and labour ’ aspired to by the Maastricht social chapter suggest he may have had a different community in mind from the sort outside the gates of Timex . |