Example sentences of "he [modal v] [verb] be [verb] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He ought to have been stopped from buying the paper in the first place , ’ he said . |
| 2 | He and his men had killed three Germans in this house when he burst into a back room and was probably killed by a fourth German hiding there , although he may have been hit from across the street . |
| 3 | The ugly weal across his throat told its own story of why he was unable to say what had happened , although the gamekeeper believed he must have been swept from his horse by the low-lying branch of a tree . |
| 4 | Wrapped up in his agreeably muddled versions of events , he might have been speaking from Mars : and with this last screen show , this cinematic oddity , the scandal sank away . |
| 5 | That is to say neither do I believe , in the terms of classical Christology , that Jesus of Nazareth could have had , as well as his human nature , a divine nature ; nor do I believe that he could have been raised from the dead , so acquiring uniqueness through God 's act of raising him . |
| 6 | After all , he could have been thrown from his horse and been lying injured on the moors in the middle of a fierce storm . |