Example sentences of "he [modal v] have make a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He captured three quick wickets before Richards and Lloyd ( who passed 7,000 Test runs ) steadied the ship , but then had Richards lbw , although umpire Meyer later admitted that he may have made a mistake and had considered recalling the batsman . |
| 2 | ‘ He 's circling again but if the undercarriage fails it looks as if he may have to make a crash landing . |
| 3 | It is astonishing that he should have made a riposte about housing benefit being available to the poor for housing costs and to have given the impression that he was in favour of housing benefit . |
| 4 | He should have made a point of looking at the evening coverage before doing his own piece ; but he 'd seen the people they 'd sent to the press conference at the hospital , dismissed them as unlikely to do a decent job on it , and promptly forgotten them . |
| 5 | I could n't help thinking that he must have made a mistake . |
| 6 | Said he must have made a mistake and it was the Cynthia T. The Cynthia had one of the new masters whom I did n't know , so I could n't do anything . |
| 7 | I say he 'll have to make a will now . |
| 8 | ‘ He 'll have to make a dash for it , and when he does — bam , he 's dead . ’ |
| 9 | He had a good degree in art history , and had he not gone in for politics he might have made a name for himself as an art historian . |
| 10 | His mind is open to the possibility that he might have made a mistake in hiring Stephanie to head Advertising and Promotions . |
| 11 | He might have made a doctor as well as a poacher … . |
| 12 | He might have made a pass given time . |
| 13 | He realised that he was , in fact , looking at a man , so heavily clothed , hatted and booted in furs that he could have made a fortune doing tricks at the Glasgow Fair . |
| 14 | All she was capable of doing was gazing at him , hardly aware of her own nakedness , while her eyes and her mind told her that , far from having to pay for women 's favours , if Rune Christensen had been so inclined he could have made a fortune as a gigolo . |
| 15 | Is it not a fact that if the right Hon. Gentleman was dissatisfied with the time that would be available by way of a normal parliamentary answer , he could have opted as any Minister , with your permission , Mr. Speaker , to take that question at the end of Question time and then face proper intensive questions , or he could have made a statement ? |
| 16 | If only he could have preached conventionally he might have been accepted , and if he could have imitated the smoothness of those illustrators he admired , he could have made a living . |
| 17 | But now you 'll never know whether he 'd have made a move or not , will you ? |
| 18 | " He would have made a fortune if . " |
| 19 | The danger is if Mr X had entered into that transaction partly with a view to avoiding tax then the entire gross income without any deduction for trustee expenses and indeed ( in strictness ) for the payments of interest under the loan will be taxed upon Mr X. He would have made a transfer of an asset . |
| 20 | Cos I think he would have made a bit of difference up front there wi er er cos they would have the defence |
| 21 | I returned to London and the Prime Minister made clear what I had always known , that , had he not been stricken down , he would have made a speech on the Saturday at Blackpool saying that he was going on . |
| 22 | It would seem that Miller can not have been on amicable terms with the gardeners there , otherwise he would have made a point of a visit then . |
| 23 | They had fought their way backwards through pantries and brushing rooms and knife rooms , past the European servants ' staircase , past the European butler 's room , the nurseries , the nursery dining-room , and the ayah 's rooms , until in the dining-room he knew he would have to make a stand . |
| 24 | Obviously we do not want to be in two minds up to the last day and he would n't do that but there is quite a a period of discretion where the time gets shorter and er he would have to make a judgement . |
| 25 | Tomorrow he would have to make a visit to Penrith to get himself fixed up with some more appropriate clothing for this unsympathetic and unreasonable patch of country . |
| 26 | If an individual buys a futures contract at this price and later sells a contract at 91–23 , then he will have made a loss of 328.13 ( i.e. 21 ticks x 15.625 per tick ) . |