Example sentences of "[noun sg] who [vb mod] have [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Detectives , who have not ruled out foul play , want to trace the driver of a dark-coloured car who may have spoken to the victim shortly before he was injured . |
| 2 | There were many in the Screen Actors ' Guild who would have agreed with him . |
| 3 | A pretty girl and one that should be with a man , not a girl who should have sat beside a solicitor in a High Street divorce court . |
| 4 | Was he a great man robbed of political success by his own misjudgement , or a pedant who should have stuck to his texts ? |
| 5 | One man is being questioned , and police want to trace a driver who may have dropped off three men in the area before the attack happened . |
| 6 | I knew Gail Benson slightly when she was a schoolgirl , and remember a pretty moon face , big eyes , a freckled complexion deepening to russet , dark hair parted down the middle — a nut-brown maid and modern miss who must have wanted to be away from the French Lycée in South Kensington , shy , uneasy , wound-up . |
| 7 | His hero is a stick who would have contributed to The New Statesman . |
| 8 | Now VAT men have earned an unfortunate reputation for not exactly being the sort who might have graduated from the Lucy Clayton school for charm and social deportment . |
| 9 | Their position was well summed up by the Carers National Association , which has stated that the current rules could have ’ disastrous consequences ’ for the family and friends of the claimant who may have moved into the home to take on the caring responsibilities . |
| 10 | ‘ The proposition need not be questioned that where an Act purports , invalidly , to require a payment to be made , leaving the liability to be enforced by means of an action in which the invalidity of the statute is an available defence , a person who might have relied upon that defence but has paid without raising it should not be held , just because he was obeying the de facto command of a legislature , to have made the payment involuntarily . |
| 11 | He is the only person who could have got near the animal . ’ |
| 12 | The butcher — a distinguished-looking man who could have served as a model for Mr Micawber and had , also , his turn of phrase . |
| 13 | It is worth remembering that one of Ælfric 's patrons , and the founder of his abbeys of Cerne and Eynsham , was the nobleman Ætheær who may have retired from court rather than face the growing influence of Eadric Streona . |
| 14 | I do not know any other politician or statesman who would have acted with such speedy decision without stopping to think of the possible consequences to himself or what people might think about his intervention on behalf of an alleged terrorist . |
| 15 | Before 1988 , people facing deportation could have appealed to an ‘ independent Adjudicator ’ or an Immigration Officer who would have looked into their cases , including any compassionate circumstances , and could stop the Home Office from deporting them . |
| 16 | ( 4 ) Whether the customer could have found another party who would have contracted without the exemption clause . |