Example sentences of "[noun pl] [modal v] have [vb pp] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In spite of this one likes to think that the dinosaurs could have engineered their own continuing survival , building upon the immense advantages that large brain and body size confer . |
| 2 | I do n't believe that the fans would have caused me any problem . |
| 3 | The fright we 've given ourselves in recent months will have done us some good if it helps us adjust society back in the direction of common purposes and co-operative disciplines . |
| 4 | She found it hard to understand how her parents could have deceived her all her life . |
| 5 | Thereafter , as many as a dozen other females will have added their own babies to the creche in the tunnel in the same way . |
| 6 | Such concerts were probably getting fewer anyway , since former patrons may have found their own financial resources increasingly strained by the exigencies of the continuing war with Turkey . |
| 7 | The Oxford police must have interviewed her several times already . |
| 8 | Cooke recalled how , like everyone else , he was utterly baffled as to how the pollsters could have got it all so wrong — until , a few days later , he found himself in a train sitting opposite a Republican county chairman . |
| 9 | So that a knife in Mr Rattrie 's feckless ribs would have cost her less in penal servitude , if she had not actually killed him , than Miss Gemma Dallam 's satin . |
| 10 | By the time they reach the secondary school , the majority of children will have developed their own style of handwriting . |
| 11 | Corbett had heard that the Scots were a crude race but their cooks could have held their own with the best in Europe . |