Example sentences of "he [modal v] [vb infin] [vb pp] a " 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 may have made a cool £250,000 out of writing George Michael 's biography , but he was cute enough to identify a demand for the tome , and lucky George did n't want to rip him off for the proceeds . |
| 3 | Mike Phelan looked like he may have discovered a passage into the second round with a fierce drive which spun off a defender with the goalkeeper stranded . |
| 4 | There is no simple answer but I think he may have halted a destructive spiral . |
| 5 | He may have created a settlement overseas which in turn owns an underlying company , which underlying company receives UK dividends . |
| 6 | Alternatively , he may have represented a powerful aristocratic family descended from neither the Deiran nor the Bernician royal family and which was aspiring to royal power for the first time , though the likelihood is that some such affinity was at least claimed . |
| 7 | It is eminently practical , and he thinks he may have started a trend . |
| 8 | And he may have taken a drink or two to steady his nerves . |
| 9 | He is generally unmarried , even though he may have had a shady past which included associating with women . |
| 10 | Most of the printed newsbooks now attributed to Mabbott 's editorship were probably not written by him , although there is some evidence that he may have had a hand in The Perfect Diurnall ( 1642–55 ) , edited by Samuel Pecke . |
| 11 | No , no he was n't well , I went to see her er I think he may have had a stroke and he ca n't get about very well at all |
| 12 | He may have had a sixth sense about the presence of some stranger in the house ; more likely he saw some physical evidence — a coat , a hat — belonging to a person he knew . |
| 13 | His determination to deny them the ‘ improved living and working conditions , proper social protection , dialogue between management and labour ’ aspired to by the Maastricht social chapter suggest he may have had a different community in mind from the sort outside the gates of Timex . |
| 14 | Fair enough he may have had a very good reason for doing so but I thought that that would have been a typical apack erm he did say well you know I just want to run it by him , you know , just to make sure but you , you still needed to know why he thought that his accountant had to be involved . |
| 15 | The man got away but he may have left a vital clue . |
| 16 | He may have admitted a friend or relative , although that 's even more doubtful . |
| 17 | In addition to the mycoplasma , Taylor-Robinson thinks he may have found a new anaerobic bacterium ( one that can not live in the presence of oxygen ) which also seems to be associated with NGU . |
| 18 | It was thought he may have set a match to it himself . |
| 19 | ‘ He should have done a bit of minding years ago . ’ |
| 20 | Is not the Minister deeply ashamed that he intends to carry on with that cruel and stupid tax instead of scrapping it , as he should have done a long time ago ? |
| 21 | They claim he should have faced a Crown Court judge for causing death by reckless driving . |
| 22 | He should have raced a lot more , beaten a lot more people ; he was certainly capable of it . |
| 23 | He missed a few chances ; reckoned he should have scored a hat-trick . |
| 24 | But Knox , who was the most brilliant orator of his generation at Oxford — star of the Union , wit , punster in tongues ancient and modern — had left Oxford before the end of the First World War to become a Roman Catholic , and after his return there as chaplain to the Catholics , it was perhaps understandable that he should have kept a low profile . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It was ironical that he should have made a magical 153 against Notts , while England 's batsmen floundered at Old Trafford . |
| 28 | In retrospect , for example , many Gaullists concluded that he should have formed a Gaullist movement of the kind that he formed , too late , in 1947 — a movement that could have channelled popular adulation into usable political support . |
| 29 | It is surely one of the most cruel twists of fate that a man who has demonstrated such commitment , as well as compassion to overcome so many other problems during his life — and indeed to have helped so many others to have done the same — that he should have become a victim of medical science . |
| 30 | Although Pond praised him as a ‘ middle-class Englishman … the personification of all their sterling traits and sturdy characteristics ’ , there were problems over whether or not he should have taken a fee for giving a eulogy on his friend , Henry Ward Beecher , at Beecher 's Brooklyn church . |