Example sentences of "[verb] what he [modal v] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whilst Bunyan might have rejoiced at being used to belabour the inanities and vanities of the Church of England , it is difficult to know what he would have thought of being commemorated by memorial windows in Elstow parish church and Westminster Abbey . |
| 2 | She tried to guess what he might have found out about Sabine Jourdain that did not hinge on her death . |
| 3 | We 'd never talked about that day , and we never again came near this old air shaft ; I do n't know what he might have done since but I 'd always assumed he was like me and just tried to forget about it , pretend it never happened . |
| 4 | Otherwise Roman must leave within ten days and Stephen will never know what he might have achieved . |
| 5 | She was good as gold ; I do n't know what he would 've done without her ! ’ |
| 6 | No one can know what he would have written because he was a direct witness and he had an exceptional personality — a deep artistic sensibility and great erudition . |
| 7 | Has not the Prime Minister managed to get the worst of all worlds by vetoing what he should have accepted — the social upgrading that we all want — and by half accepting what he should have vetoed — economic and monetary union , which will be deeply damaging and which will lock both this country and Europe into a decade of deflation ? |
| 8 | By demanding payment on a trifling amount , he is remembering what he should have forgotten and forgetting what he should have remembered — that he himself has just been forgiven . |
| 9 | When morning came the King , Guy of Lusignan , could see what he must have known already . |
| 10 | The draughtsman no doubt had in mind to cover what he would have called all bona fide transfers , that is to say transfers which would be regarded by the Revenue as not made for any fiscal purpose which they would regard as improper . |
| 11 | Well , it 's difficult to surmise what he may have seen . |
| 12 | In a game that went to the fifth day only because many hours were lost to the weather — the actual playing time was two and two-thirds days — one was left wondering what he might have done had he been fully fit . |
| 13 | First , he had failed to do what he ought to have done when Bishop of Durham to discipline the ritualists in the parish of St Mary 's Tyne Dock , although some of the parishioners appealed to him for protection against illegal practices and ornaments of a Romish character . |
| 14 | You understood him so well ; you know what he would have wanted . ’ |
| 15 | There is no knowing what he would have made of Cardenal 's reading of Matthew , somewhat further on . |
| 16 | The third way of calculating the multiplicand and now the one that finds most favour with the courts is to deduct a percentage from the deceased 's net income figure to represent what he would have spent exclusively on himself . |
| 17 | Now Ebenezer Judge understood what he must have felt , as a dozen willing hands hoisted him on high , held him for an instant in mid-air , then let him down , inch by inch , until the back of his head knocked against the stone wall and the freezing water lapped over his boots . |
| 18 | Maxim never knew what he might have done . |
| 19 | But to take such comments as proof that de Gaulle already knew what he would have to do in 1962 is a leap made only by Gaullists predisposed to elevate the General 's prescience to superhuman levels or by fanatical anti-Gaullists predisposed to exaggerate the depths of his duplicity . |
| 20 | When I heard he was missing , I did what he would have done for me in similar circumstances . |
| 21 | I think what he should have done |
| 22 | Then he wondered if he was capable of putting what he must have heard to some use . |
| 23 | " I wonder what he would have said , Chuck , if I 'd told him he 'd just served a drink to someone who 's probably going to be much more important one day than a run-of-the-mill Democratic senator from Virginia ? " |
| 24 | Has not the Prime Minister managed to get the worst of all worlds by vetoing what he should have accepted — the social upgrading that we all want — and by half accepting what he should have vetoed — economic and monetary union , which will be deeply damaging and which will lock both this country and Europe into a decade of deflation ? |
| 25 | His blond head dipped briefly , as he refused her the possibility of completing what he must have guessed would have been a remonstrative retort . |
| 26 | I mean I l the , the pundit system in this country is absolutely delightful , I mean you do n't need do you , when I mean the economy 's in , in , in reverse and things are going horribly wrong and they wheel on Mr Lawson to explain what he would have done , |
| 27 | I found his blend of assurance , diffidence and wit beguiling , and I have often wondered what he might have done had he been born free . |
| 28 | On this particular day she wished devoutly that her late husband were with her and wondered what he would have to say about their daughter who had , so unaccountably , married another rank . |
| 29 | The sergeant wondered what he would have thought of Nicola if he had met her when she was alive . |
| 30 | He had had little to say to her since then , having turned his attention to the red-headed horsewoman she had today identified , from the servants ' gossip at the back of the church , as Mrs Covington-Pym She wondered what he could have to say to her now , not expecting it to be pleasant . |