Example sentences of "he [vb mod] have [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gowned , dark-suited , he ought to have looked fitting , impressive . |
| 2 | He may have said cousin . ’ |
| 3 | He may have received psychotherapy , but has not yet undergone conversion surgery even if he is contemplating it . |
| 4 | He may have visited Glastonbury on 30 November 1032 , and the five charters from 1033 ( S 967 – 70 , 972 ) are the most to survive from any year of his reign . |
| 5 | Kinnear has warned he may have to sell stars like Warren Barton and Robbie Earle before the end of the season to raise much-needed cash . |
| 6 | In Ecgfrith 's case , by the same principle , if he was killed in the fifteenth year of his reign and had only been king fourteen years , he may have become king in 671 and certainly could not have done so before 21 May 670 . |
| 7 | In his Germania days before university he may have entertained thoughts of a musical career , and , as we have noted , his contributions to that forum were usually musical . |
| 8 | Commissioned in the 4th Regiment of Foot , he fought at the battle of the Boyne in 1690 and then served in the Netherlands , where he may have gained experience of hydraulic engineering . |
| 9 | ‘ No , no , of course not , ’ he hurriedly corrects himself , aware he may have caused offence . |
| 10 | He may have met Burgess at Oxford ; Lord Rivers , who was also a graduate of Magdalen College , and was president of the Odiham Society , may have discussed the society with him ; or Penn may simply have read the society 's advertisement of its intention to send two lads to Alfort for training . |
| 11 | But he may he may have seen things and , and |
| 12 | Given that he may have fallen victim of an essentialist fallacy , is he not right in asserting that marriage as always understood is a relationship involving a man and a woman , commonly so defined ? |
| 13 | He may have taken pity on her and bought her a drink , at the same time buying a little companionship for himself , easing the ache of his loneliness . |
| 14 | I infer from that he may have had reasons other than professional ones for taking on the employment you offered him . |
| 15 | In so doing he may have had access to local traditions . |
| 16 | He may have had injury problems . |
| 17 | He may have had injury problems . |
| 18 | In the first place it is noticeable that the great theme of his two Councils was the same as that of the Roman Council of 1059 , when the first effective legislation on clerical celibacy was initiated : it almost seems as if this subject had matured in his mind since that date ; certainly his early Deploratio virginitatis male amissae suggests that he may have had cause for thought on this subject . |
| 19 | He may have shown indifference with his remark that Christians need not be ashamed if they knew nothing of the number and properties of the elements . |
| 20 | He may have to make redundancies among the 100 staff and could be forced to appoint an assistant director to handle internal matters . |
| 21 | It is believed he may have left home of his own choice as he did take some of his clothes , but there have been no reports of him trying to leave the country . |
| 22 | We think he may have left Paris , but no one 's really very sure . ’ |
| 23 | Just as compelling production of incriminating Reports in the hand of the insured may lead to a climate for settlement on the part of the defender , so a Specification properly directed to the pursuer or those to whom he may have entrusted information ( other than his solicitors ) may assist in compelling him to be more realistic . |
| 24 | or being older he may have remembered times before that . |
| 25 | He may have remembered St Mary 's Tyne Dock , where he freely sanctioned certain things that were illegal because the parish church council wanted them for purposes of devotion . |
| 26 | Again , new users should ask the LIFESPAN Manager in the first instance about the charge codes , although he may have allocated responsibility for groups of codes to project leaders . |
| 27 | The plain fact is , surely , that Wordsworth was intensely politically conscious all his life ; he may have changed sides , but he never lost interest in the battle . |
| 28 | He may have found service under the Protectorate more congenial than that of the Commonwealth ; in 1653–4 he moved from the navy to the central executive , becoming assistant secretary and then clerk of Oliver Cromwell 's council and treasurer of the protector 's contingencies . |
| 29 | Alternatively , a client who has been treated as an expert investor on the grounds of his experience may claim that , in fact , he was a private investor , that he should have received warnings as to the risks and that , had he received them , he would not have entered into this type of transaction at all . |
| 30 | Harry knew he should have felt indignation at this crude evidence of Charlie and Roy Mallender pulling strings , not to mention a certain satisfaction that they thought they needed to pull them , but all he could detect within himself was a sickening clutch of fear . |