Example sentences of "he [vb mod] have [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | If these are totally incompatible he may have to resign of course , but then |
| 2 | Any expectations he may have had of inheriting a larger share of the Angevin Empire were fading fast . |
| 3 | His prohibition of the sale of Christians to the heathen , for example , was drawn from an English source , although he may have known of Henry II 's identical measure in Germany in 1006 . |
| 4 | ‘ He should have thought of that earlier . ’ |
| 5 | He should have thought of that risk ; he wondered if Sims had thought of it . |
| 6 | He should have thought of it before . |
| 7 | a lot of people would think , Ah oh X to the sixth well he must have started of with X to the seventh . |
| 8 | He must have died of worry . |
| 9 | But any hope he might have had of sliding his arm round her and trying a tentative first kiss on the drive home was scotched when she fell asleep the moment she got into the car . |
| 10 | She had probably forfeited any good opinion he might have had of her . |
| 11 | So bang went any chance he might have had of hearing things he did not know . |
| 12 | There was nothing he could have asked of her that she would not have done for him . |
| 13 | But then between the fronds he saw a face , the most beautiful face he could have dreamed of or imagined , a still white face , with long gold lashes on pale cheeks , and a perfect pale mouth . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , we 're all together still , are n't we ? ’ said Cliff 's brother Steve , with some asperity : he could have thought of better ways of spending the evening , given the choice . |
| 15 | It accounts for the constant visits of the apostle to the Gentiles back to the Jerusalem church ( Acts 18:21 , 20:16 , 25:1 etc. ) , and his organisation of a great collection for their benefit , little though he could have approved of their theology ( Rom. 15:26 , I Cor. 16:1 , 2 Cor. 8:1ff ) . |
| 16 | He could have disposed of them in a more conclusive way on a bonfire or by throwing them down an old mineshaft . ’ |
| 17 | There is no knowing what he would have made of Cardenal 's reading of Matthew , somewhat further on . |
| 18 | The ethics of restoring material in this way can be endlessly debated ; the matter is complicated in the case of Don Carlos because Verdi sanctioned four versions , and no one can be sure he would have disapproved of the restoration of his Paris excisions . |
| 19 | He would have disapproved of it equally in contemporary western Europe and contemporary TDC , but he would have had to look for quite different explanations for its occurrence . |
| 20 | None of the four had met Morse yet , and did n't know how strongly he would have disapproved of their beverage . |
| 21 | Here , he would have heard of poor Mansfield 's terrible death following a naphtha fire in a derelict building in St Pancras , as well as of G. F. Wilson 's new processes for producing cheap glycerin soaps and ( Price 's patents ) candles from low-grade fats , and of Abel and Spiller 's progress at Woolwich Arsenal on organo-nitrate explosives . |
| 22 | ‘ No , ’ she denied drily , and he would have to make of that what he would , because she could n't explain why she had come , not the real reason , because it was private , and because the woman she had come to find , the woman her grandfather had asked her to look up , deliver the package to , might be very angry — and rightfully so — if she discussed her business with other people . |
| 23 | He had told him that he would have died of hunger without Fagin 's kindness . |
| 24 | For a start he would drown , or if he did n't drown he would suffocate ; and most probably he would have died of a heart attack when he felt the great mouth gape for him . |
| 25 | He said he would have died of embarrassment . |
| 26 | He would have to think of some more immediate way of annoying Gina . |
| 27 | Of course , the label or promotional literature as constituting a representation would have to induce the representee to enter the main contract of sale and he would have to know of it prior to the contract . |
| 28 | Whilst Bunyan might have rejoiced at being used to belabour the inanities and vanities of the Church of England , it is difficult to know what he would have thought of being commemorated by memorial windows in Elstow parish church and Westminster Abbey . |
| 29 | The sergeant wondered what he would have thought of Nicola if he had met her when she was alive . |
| 30 | He would have approved of the extensive use on the site of existing equipment and buildings . |