Example sentences of "[noun prp] [modal v] have [vb pp] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Judging from all the chatter , everyone in UCD must have got to know each other pretty quickly , Benny thought as she went up the steps the following morning . |
| 2 | ‘ The press made a lot of people afraid of the movie , ’ says Dickerson , ‘ and Paramount might have tried to counteract that . ’ |
| 3 | By releasing five senior officers imprisoned for crimes committed while they ran the country , from 1976 to 1983 , President Carlos Menem may have hoped to eliminate much of the discontent that lay behind three rebellions against his predecessor , Raul Alfonsin , and one against himself on December 3rd . |
| 4 | The Perkins may have come to regret this decision because , after being eclipsed at the exhibition , the demand for their mauve dye decreased rapidly , and they found that the commercial potential for magenta dye had been grossly underestimated . |
| 5 | In order to be accorded the title of Messiah , and acclaimed as such by the populace , Jesus would have had to possess some legitimate claim . |
| 6 | Carmen would have loved to know that . |
| 7 | And there , as they say , the matter rested , for there was now nothing further we could do ; and Meehan might have had to serve many more years in prison had not a further and quite unexpected twist come to this most tangled of cases . |
| 8 | Mrs Nowak and Taczek must have got to know most of the truth and stuck by the cover story . |