Example sentences of "[adv] he [modal v] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is typical of Lewis 's later self that he should have seen no virtue at all in Tillyard 's approach , and that furthermore he should have labelled it ‘ heresy ’ . |
| 2 | He did n't want Gina using those arguments next time he told her how much better he could have done for himself . |
| 3 | One pal said : ‘ He loved her so much he would have done anything to protect her and he paid for that love with his life . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ No , he was already married , you see , a marriage he could never escape from , no matter how much he might have wanted to . |
| 5 | Is it so likely that that man , however much he may have been struck by your beauty and gaiety , Miss Jonathan , would have at once decided to assassinate your future husband ? ’ |
| 6 | The word ‘ championship ’ , however , no matter how much he may have been thinking about it privately , I did not hear from him until much later in the year , when the scales began to tip in his favour . |
| 7 | However much he may have charmed them , they were her friends not his , and they 'd have inevitably sided with her in this fiasco . |
| 8 | Yet Rider Haggard seems to have been dissatisfied with his presentation of the character ( and naturally he must have been influenced , as a professional novelist , by the enormous popularity and sales of She ) and he did not resist the temptation to give his readers a further insight into her . |
| 9 | Well , we thought he 'd gone out , but apparently he must have got to the door just as the bomb landed , and the blast blew the door backwards , er the door inwards , knocked me dad backwards and at the back of him we had a cellar , but it went through this , the cellar door and although it turned round before it went down the cellar , he finished up down there because we did n't know this til after a while that me brother wou did n't offer to go out , so I went out think , to find where me dad was you see . |
| 10 | He had no idea how long he would have to wait to marry her , but he was prepared to wait for the rest of his life . |
| 11 | Now , when there was a strict limit to how long he would have to talk to her , it was convenient — perhaps even imperative — to do so unimpeded by a third party . |
| 12 | But he did not know how long he would have to wait to do so . |
| 13 | Mr. Watson had then telephoned the same consultant in the same hospital and had asked how long he would have to wait to be seen privately . |
| 14 | It would be a trespass to goods and it would be usurping the owner 's rights , for only he would have any right to do such an act and no one could contend that there was any implied consent or authority to a customer to do any such thing . |
| 15 | Sandy McGlashan had arrived late , his hair plastered down with sweat ; he was spluttering over the tale , to whoever would listen , of how he had ‘ come up flemyng and Menzies of Bolfracks , in the street at Aberfeldy , they had their heads together and were plotting something wicked , no doubt about it , if only he could have heard what they were saying ’ . |
| 16 | If only he could have been just a little less ruthless about it along the way . |
| 17 | The only impressions from his heavy sleep which touched him with a faintest trace were mysteriously , elusively compounded of plumed candle flame , drumming rain , a ship held by ice , huddled sheep , and a malignant shadow stooped-muttering over a desk or table or bench in a room or a cell he thought he might have been able to recognize if only he could have opened his eyes . |
| 18 | The only impressions from his heavy sleep which touched him with a faintest trace were elusively compounded of dank , dripping trees , dazzling headlights , stairways , huddled sheep , a ship held by ice mast-high , and a sick man with skin blotched with words gibbering upon a bed in a room in a house he thought he might have been able to recognize if only he could have opened his eyes . |
| 19 | If only he could have done it with the Palace ! |
| 20 | He may have survived if only he could have found it . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | If only he could have been with Dinah at this hour , playing while she sang ! |
| 23 | Communism had been his religion , the romantic , revolutionary communism of 1917 and Petrograd and the streets full of soldiers and sailors and workers and red flags and armoured cars that looked as if they were made of galvanised steel buckets , and the cruiser Aurora out on the river with its searchlight blazing — now there was a fairground panel he could have painted if only he could have got away with it — but it was n't the same any more . |
| 24 | If only he could have seen Anne today … ( breaks off ) . |
| 25 | If only he could have spoken to her one last time before he 'd been taken down . |
| 26 | If only he could have believed the best about her all by himself . |
| 27 | Perhaps he would have been better off with a pencil ! |
| 28 | There are passages where Beethoven makes problems that perhaps he would have avoided if he had been able to hear . |
| 29 | Perhaps he would have an explanation . |
| 30 | The Mountie , unperturbed , said he would be proceeding vigorously with the enquiries into both Angelica 's and Ricky 's deaths and perhaps he would have news for everyone in Winnipeg . |