Example sentences of "[modal v] have [vb pp] [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So the bomb must have gone off in the committee room . |
| 2 | She woke , exclaiming that she must have dropped off in the heat . |
| 3 | Second , on any other night Hilda might have dozed off in the chair , but not after she 'd had a flaming row with Viola . ’ |
| 4 | If they live near to Mrs Richards 's villa , then one of them might have slipped down in the confusion to see what he could find in the surgery . ’ |
| 5 | She could have stayed on in the country , until they found a place of their own , or even permanently , with William coming back at weekends . |
| 6 | I 'd have cast off in the Angharad to fetch you the minute I knew you were there ! ’ |
| 7 | I may have taken off in the wrong direction entirely . |
| 8 | You may have nodded off in the bus on your way to a dusty ruin where street-traders pestered you until you retired to the coach in a huff , but in print you will have enjoyed the delights of a ‘ bustling street market ’ , selling ‘ delightful local crafts ’ in the shadow of ‘ one of the forgotten wonders of the world ’ . |
| 9 | Normally I would have gone down in the passenger pod , but of course the pod was back on Uulaa . |
| 10 | But for the military prowess of the Duke of Parma , a Spanish general who overcame the city 's resistance in the 1580s , Antwerp would have ended up in the United Provinces ( today 's Holland ) rather than the Spanish Netherlands ( today 's Belgium ) . |
| 11 | ‘ If it were n't for me giving you a roof over your head after your mother had the gall to die on me , you would have ended up in the bloody workhouse ! |
| 12 | So in a sense , although I have n't recorded in the meantime , I st I still would have ended up in the same place . |
| 13 | Then none of this rot about wars and boundaries would have come up in the first place . ’ |
| 14 | It is impossible to check the validity of this statement , as the Government has consistently refused to provide the key information necessary to make this calculation , namely details on what would have paid out in the uprating allowance of supplementary benefit had it still been in force in April 1988 . |
| 15 | But a nice idea , yeah , he 's saying before long tens of thousands of schools will have sprung up in the villages throughout the province erm and that , that basically the peasants like the old style schools which is basically a Chinese way of teaching as opposed to erm the education which the landlords received which is the foreign school and he 's saying how when he was a student erm you know he used to think that the foreign style schools were groovy er but has now realized that actually , you know , being , I mean |
| 16 | — established views on the issue raised by the question , which you will have learned about in the class or by your own reading ; |