Example sentences of "[pos pn] father [modal v] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | My father would have expected an abject apology from me , I assure you , before he condescended to write . ’ |
| 2 | The first programme we watched after it was installed was one my father would have loved , about old sailing-ships and the life of our ancestor , the poet-sailor William Falconer , who wrote a long poem , The Shipwreck , which was popular in its day . |
| 3 | Naturally , my father would have felt this loss keenly ; but to make matters worse the usual comfort a father has in these situations — that is , the notion that his son gave his life gloriously for king and country — was sullied by the fact that my brother had perished in a particularly infamous manoeuvre . |
| 4 | You see , I know my father would have wished me to carry on just now . ’ |
| 5 | Really they need a horse-whipping , and my father would have administered it , I assure you , if he had come across such fiends ! |
| 6 | My father would have put it in another way : ‘ Zol zey alamin chappen a cholera . ’ |
| 7 | " My father would have been proud of you , " he spat , " did he even realize the half of what you did , eh ? " |
| 8 | I wonder what my father would have said if he 'd known his illegitimate son might yet marry one of the Kinmuires . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ My father would have said it was merely an animal bribe to turn away the wrath of strangers . |
| 10 | ‘ My father would have wanted music with it , ’ she said at one point . |
| 11 | ‘ My father would have been the first to have congratulated him if he had been here , ’ he said . |
| 12 | ‘ My father would have paid for years and years to have me become a doctor , a lawyer or an engineer . |
| 13 | ‘ Maybe my father would have expected that but certainly not this generation of Serras . |
| 14 | I tried to work out what my father would have done in the same circumstances and came to the conclusion that he would have taken what he so often called ‘ a bold step ’ . |
| 15 | In any case , my father was obviously a bit of an embarrassment to his brother : Harold Swan pressed home the point that my father might have a fit during a performance . |
| 16 | For one thing , any hopes my father may have had that to meet the General in person would arouse a sense of respect or sympathy to leaven his feelings against him proved without foundation . |
| 17 | I refer to things such as good accent and command of language , general knowledge on wide-ranging topics such as falconing or newt-mating — attributes none of which my father could have boasted . |
| 18 | Er , mine died when I was nine and my mother has been my mother and a father to both myself my brother and sister and I feel she 's done just as good a job as I could of as my father could have done . |
| 19 | Do you know she said she was n't coming to our wedding right up to the last moment , and when she did consent to come she behaved as if all the guests on my side were mud beneath her feet , though our family 's always been very well thought of around here , as I 'm sure you know , and my father could have bought her up a hundred times and not noticed the difference , and what was her father in New Zealand I wonder , some sheep dipper or other I would n't mind betting — you know the type that went to the colonies then — or perhaps he was a convict ! ’ |
| 20 | At that first meeting my father can have had no idea of the troubles this boy would bring upon his country . |
| 21 | He said my father can have it , he can do , have it , I only want money for my charity , |
| 22 | It was while we were sitting there that my father must have died of a heart attack in Bath . |
| 23 | However , my father must have made the usual enquiries , and been satisfied , for he consented to my marriage . ’ |
| 24 | I think my father must have suffered some of this , if only because he refused to have us children christened . |
| 25 | When she was pronounced to be the image of my father , I suspected that something belonging to my father must have got inside my mother to the place where the baby was being carried . |
| 26 | She had said ‘ the rest of you ’ and I had never heard her so distance herself before , but what astonished me was the realisation that my father must have been at that party , must have returned with my mother to the villa in the small hours , must have been aware of me in my little white pyjamas and Panama hat . |
| 27 | Yes , I have the slip somewhere , and my father I did n't keep it but my father must have kept it , but I discovered it one day and it was seven and thruppence I think for the first week 's pay . |
| 28 | Then my father must have answered the buzzer in the house , because Diggs stooped slightly and talked into the grille beside the button , and then pushed the gate open and walked over the bridge , on to the island and down the path towards the house . |
| 29 | As she flew up to her room , she thought her father might have killed her for that speech . |
| 30 | Not for the first time she thought her father would have made a wonderful actor . |