Example sentences of "he [modal v] have [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been suggested that he belonged to the Bozon family of Norfolk , and that he may had studied at Oxford . |
| 2 | He may have gone to Italy in order to escape the regime of Queen Mary I , and his support of the Protestant settlement of 1559 was clear , but his credit suffered because his Catholic wife practised her faith within his household . |
| 3 | The fact that he may have gone to ground does not mean he wo n't attack again , and they want to catch him before he does . |
| 4 | However little he may have done in fact , it was enough to blacken his reputation in future among the nationalists . |
| 5 | It was his conception , his baby , and for it he would tolerate most things , including his suspicion of Trotskyism — whether of the IMG or IS variety — and of what he may have seen as Rowbotham 's ‘ hippy sentimentality ’ . |
| 6 | He may have to settle for second this time . |
| 7 | It is thought he may have suffered from carbon monoxide poisoning caused by a faulty exhaust system . |
| 8 | If these are totally incompatible he may have to resign of course , but then |
| 9 | He may have fled to Spain at some time , and apparently owned land in the Canary Islands . |
| 10 | Archbishop Hugh of Lyons was the outstanding advocate and example of this policy in the last quarter of the eleventh century , and whatever influence he may have had on Anselm 's later political vocabulary , he had none at all in this matter . |
| 11 | One of the philosophers he may have had in mind is Joseph Butler . |
| 12 | He may have had in mind a letter he and Congress had received just weeks before , containing excerpts from Queer City and Live Sex Acts , two publications of The Portable Lower East Side , an NEA-sponsored semiannual literary journal in New York City . |
| 13 | He may have had in mind the possible loss of East Germany as a military base area . |
| 14 | He may have acted as minister of Teddington , but was not its incumbent . |
| 15 | He may have worked at King 's in 1476–85 and was certainly at the college by 1486 . |
| 16 | Detetives still have n't been able to build up a description of the attacker but they believe he may have worked with horses in the past . |
| 17 | Had he stayed in the East End , he may have drifted into delinquency ; instead , his mother sent for him when he was 12 to start a new life in Canada . |
| 18 | His prohibition of the sale of Christians to the heathen , for example , was drawn from an English source , although he may have known of Henry II 's identical measure in Germany in 1006 . |
| 19 | He may have come from Somerset : one tract was dedicated to his kinsman Thomas Churchey of Wincanton , and he may be identical with the John Brayne of Crewkerne , a gentleman 's son who entered New Inn Hall , Oxford , in 1636 , aged twenty-two . |
| 20 | When it was too late and Nails had had time to cool down , he realised he should have asked for Mr Bean or even Biddy or Nutty 's dad to be contacted . |
| 21 | First , says Taylor , he should have sent on Aston Villa winger Tony Daley for the last 20 minutes against France . |
| 22 | ‘ He should have co-operated with Scotland Yard , ’ said Secretary of State Jim Donaldson . |
| 23 | ‘ But he should have stayed with Williams . |
| 24 | Rex Reed said that Nicholson was ‘ wasted so criminally , that he should have stayed in bed . ’ |
| 25 | Her man was Willie Johnson , the player at the centre of the most emotional scandal in the history of Scottish football , and a figure of such sentimental intensity , he should have played for Nashville . |
| 26 | ‘ I still feel he should have gone to university like the other two . |
| 27 | He tells his driver he should have gone to Istanbul ! |
| 28 | He did n't burden the uniformed branch with his problems and he did n't see why he should have to listen to Camb 's maunderings . |
| 29 | In his view , the court could intervene only if the minister ( a ) failed or refused to apply his mind to or to consider the question whether to refer a complaint to the committee or ( b ) misinterpreted the law or proceeded on an erroneous view of the law or ( c ) based his decision on some wholly extraneous consideration or ( d ) failed to have regard to matters which he should have taken into account . |
| 30 | It is striking that Lewis did not want it known in College that he wrote ‘ pomes ’ , but only natural that he should have looked outside Magdalen for soulmates within his own Faculty . |