Example sentences of "[adv] he [vb mod] have [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Swayne ; perhaps he should have paid more attention to Swayne . |
| 2 | Had his depression lasted much longer he would have become agoraphobic . |
| 3 | Normally he would have had little patience with the attitudes of the Fromes , but the morning after such a bereavement did n't seem the time to argue the social or political toss with them . |
| 4 | Originally he would have symbolised vegetative fertility , and possibly even the sacrificial May King . |
| 5 | ‘ I AM talking about a man that has done 26 years behind bars and if he had done the same crime today he would have got 10 years and would have got out five years ago ’ — actor Mike Reid on Reggie Kray . |
| 6 | Here he must have had further contact with Scott , who became Surveyor to the Fabric of the Abbey in 1846 , particularly in connection with the Broad Sanctuary houses , which Scott built on the Abbey 's land between 1852 and 1854 . |
| 7 | Surely he would have caught one or two before , the bream became overfed . |
| 8 | If a trust can be established with the posthumous child as trustee , then he must have received some benefit attributable to the intention of the deceased and arising from succession to him . |
| 9 | If , however , Shakespeare did actually exist , then he must have possessed certain attributes that made him the kind of existent he was , even though no attributes that he may have had would have been sufficient to individuate him in a metaphysical sense . |
| 10 | Maybe he should have cauterized those aspects of himself long since . |
| 11 | Jesus forecast that before the cock crowed twice he would have denied any knowledge of Jesus three times . |
| 12 | Cedric Downes had himself been on the phone for about five minutes , trying frustratedly to contact British Rail about times of trains to London that day ; yet he could have had little notion of the irrational and frenetic impatience of the man who was trying to contact him ; a man who was betweenwhiles cursing the incompetence of British Telecom and bemoaning the cussedness of the Universe in general . |
| 13 | He knew I 'd be interested in the reward money before he started telling me all the details , otherwise he 'd have kept most of it to himself . |