Example sentences of "[noun pl] [modal v] have [vb pp] [pers pn] [det] " in BNC.

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1 I do n't believe that the fans would have caused me any problem .
2 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 .
3 She found it hard to understand how her parents could have deceived her all her life .
4 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 .
5 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 .
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