Example sentences of "they [vb mod] have [vb pp] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The intelligentsia may not have been insincere , they may have believed their own rhetoric . |
| 2 | While the logic of Black 's view has been widely accepted , in practice many empirical studies have used some form of rate of return , although they may have given it another name . |
| 3 | But where they fell down , they should have told you that was what would happen |
| 4 | They should they should have got us all lined up single file and alphabetical order , taking them in . |
| 5 | I mean everybody knew what was going on , they might have had their own interpretations of what they 'd been told , but that happens , and as I said you know , every decision was voted on by the full lodge of the three quarries . |
| 6 | ‘ But if those criminals were determined to kill the boy , and it seems with hindsight that they were , they could have done it any time , before or after receiving the diamonds , in the cellar , on the road or on some lonely Yorkshire moorland . |
| 7 | It was impossible they could have found her this time . |
| 8 | Or else they would have killed us all , shot us in our beds . |
| 9 | Of course if Adam had invited his parents to make themselves at home at Wyvis Hall , use it as a hotel , while he was away , they would have lent him any amount , but that was the last thing Adam would have done . |
| 10 | They would have arrested them both , delighted to pick on a friar . |