Example sentences of "[subord] he [modal v] have be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where he might have been standing still had not the eagles lunged at him , as if moments before it fell they had sensed that some danger was there and had sought to protect him . |
| 2 | Treleaven , from Hayling , only got in as a last-minute replacement when Michael Welch , on EGU duty in Spain , crushed his thumb in a door and had to scratch from the Salver and Sunday 's Hampshire Hog at North Hants , where he should have been defending . |
| 3 | And that would be soon as ever he had his own son safely established back under this roof , where he should have been all along ! |
| 4 | " There are places up there where he could have been put in all right without attracting too much attention . " |
| 5 | ( One even refused to stand down although he would have been seventy-six at the time of the next election . ) |
| 6 | When he came to the College , Coleman was presumably almost totally ignorant of veterinary matters ( although he may have been studying the subject during the ‘ interregnum ’ ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A Royal Ulster Constabulary spokesman said : ‘ Although he may have been coming to the end of his racing career , he was potentially valuable for stud purposes . ’ |
| 9 | To the end of his life Picasso himself did not bother to distinguish between African and Oceanic art , although he must have been aware of distinctions between the two during his contacts with the Surrealists in the 1920s , for they tended to prefer and extol the ‘ marvellous ’ properties of the latter . |
| 10 | He appeared slight standing next to the sergeant major , although he must have been a shade over six feet himself . |
| 11 | Thiercelin was somewhat less interested than he would have been a few days earlier . |
| 12 | If he thought instant bankruptcy would result from such disclosures , he must be no less earnest to become a bankrupt for the just advantage of his creditors than he would have been resolute not to fail by collusion for the purpose of defrauding them . |
| 13 | The board assessed his compensation at a substantially lower figure than he would have been awarded by an industrial tribunal had he been able in law to appeal to such a tribunal . |
| 14 | Kelly grunted , seemingly no more upset by the destruction of his diner than he would have been by a broken plate . |
| 15 | He was less severe with me than he would have been normally , but I saw I could not expect great leniency from him . |
| 16 | ‘ Right , so Fagg is just more xenophobic and choleric than he would have been in his prime . ’ |
| 17 | But he was no more comfortable on the radio programme than he would have been on the real desert island . |
| 18 | However , given that the disclaimer of responsibility is valid under the UCTA , it is hard to see why such a solution , which puts the buyer in a better position than he would have been in if no express remedies were available , should fall foul of the UCTA . |
| 19 | The Doctor was less worried than he might have been . |
| 20 | Bernard , harder on his own son than he might have been on any other twenty-three-year-old in the company was not keen , telling him he had no business experience . |
| 21 | Paul was less glad of the news than he should have been , in her opinion ; it was too far from his work at Mrs Gracie 's , he said . |
| 22 | Mm , apparently the guy that was driving it had overalls on , so he may have been a mechanic delivering it to somewhere or test driving it over there |
| 23 | Great-Grandfather was running a farm at the same time , so he must have been a very busy man . |
| 24 | It was n't my blood , so he must have been bleeding as well |
| 25 | ‘ Mr Stewart invited him in so he must have been expecting him ’ said Mrs Donnelly . |
| 26 | ‘ He looks like he must have been pretty naughty , ’ she said , and handed the picture back to him . |
| 27 | He finished his beer sadly , wondered if he would have been better off , after all , among them at the club . |
| 28 | Carey continued : ‘ I doubt if He would have been impressed by the argument that the goats had been waiting for these things to trickle down as a by-product of economic growth . ’ |
| 29 | Duncan looked at the people passing by , wondering if he would have been one of them had Grandfather Ilya Denknetzeyan decided not leave Russia . |
| 30 | The delicate tumbler was out of place in his heavy hand ; he looked as if he would have been more comfortable carrying a bottle of beer . |