Example sentences of "she [modal v] have [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She ought to have stayed at home , or gone to stay with her boyfriend in Halesowen . |
| 2 | She may have travelled by jet to see her in-laws in New York or her cousins in Jerusalem , but there is a part of her that still lives in eighteenth century Limnititzk . |
| 3 | ‘ Which she may have done on purpose . ’ |
| 4 | The Titfords , it seemed , had not given up the Miscellaneous Repos business for good : an unmarried Scottish lady in her sixties , Jessie Grieve , was staying with them as a lodger ; what little she may have paid in rent would have been very useful , no doubt , as a means of eking out the family income . |
| 5 | I think she must 've gone to town |
| 6 | She must have gone through hell every day , because we kept on to her how fat she was , how ugly she was . |
| 7 | She must have gone to bed some time ago , else Jessie would n't have been able to sneak out . |
| 8 | Everything that she must have had in clothes she 'd kept . |
| 9 | It was just after six , long after the time she should have gone off duty , and that was exactly what all the physiotherapists had done . |
| 10 | You 're not saying she should n't have been allowed to do that , she should have gone to John |
| 11 | She should have stayed with Fernando , she should have had faith in her own feelings at the time — and his . |
| 12 | As the insects met a sticky death on her windscreen and brambles and gorse bushes clawed at the bright sides of her hired Fiat , she wondered if she should have stayed at home and if she would ever , in fact , see ‘ La Felicità ’ . |
| 13 | She should have stayed in beauty therapy , she 's a very gentle and she 's very able . |
| 14 | She should have ticked off Miss Vine 's name on her list and been ready to carry the empty plates and covers back to the van . |
| 15 | Perhaps she should have paid by cheque after all . |
| 16 | She should have got in trouble by her Mum . |
| 17 | Maybe she should have stuck to Mr Tank Top . |
| 18 | Fool , she should have spoken to Steve , asked him where he was and what the devil he thought he and Maria Luisa were playing at . |
| 19 | She should have come over sooner , she should have spoken to Roy , but how did you ask a grown man about his home life ? |
| 20 | If she had weakened for a moment , to the extent of uttering one soft word of forgiveness , of friendship , she might have burst into tears . |
| 21 | ‘ But you suspected she might have gone to Ireland , did n't you ? |
| 22 | If she had had her Moondream mask she might have seen it more , she might have distinguished between Harry 's presence in her childhood life , and her own … |
| 23 | It was the sort of jokingly glib comment she might have made on stage . |
| 24 | In contrast , if a married woman were unfaithful to her husband she might have to die for Izzat to be restored . |
| 25 | If only Jonathan had been around she might never have come to France , she might have stayed in London to explain it all to him , but he was away on business for a week , and the need to escape had been too powerful to resist . |
| 26 | Even naked , Leo did n't at all seem at a disadvantage , and , as she watched the two men , she finally and forever dispelled any lingering feeling she might have had for Ryan . |
| 27 | They sat in the corner and he pumped her for any information she might have gleaned from Wickham . |
| 28 | She 'll have to go to town near Dudley . |
| 29 | Well she 'll have to wait till Easter that 's all , and when she comes back at Easter time |
| 30 | For three whole days she 'd blanked out the memory of that kiss they 'd shared , but now it came flooding back with a vengeance , hot and strong and so seductively real that she could have wept for shame . |