Example sentences of "he [vb mod] have get [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't see how he should have got off with 7 years . |
| 2 | Shortly afterwards he went missing in the cauldron of the Ruhr , I only wanted to tell him he should have got more than 30 bob a piece for them . |
| 3 | Mind you , he does n't smell — he must have got somewhere he can go for a bath at least once a week . |
| 4 | At some point he must have got up and opened the window . |
| 5 | No one heard him come up but he must have got in for Ruthven to die and the white rose to be found . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ When we were waiting to be questioned by the police , Doug Wilson was saying that Rodney had been making a play for Angy and hinting that he might have got somewhere . ’ |
| 7 | He might have got on to the motorway . ’ |
| 8 | if he had been chasing his flying tent up from the machair on the west of the island , he might have got up as far as the bogland near the lochan , but surely the light from my cottage would not be visible until he had followed the road downhill past the curve and almost into Otters ' Bay . |
| 9 | Scamp had done thirteen months of a two-year stretch and he could 've got out in a coupla months more if he 'd kept his nose clean . |
| 10 | It would be a fitting tickle — if he could have got away with it . |
| 11 | Maybe he could have got away with it in his native Greek but not in English . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He could have got away with fourteen months with remission . ’ |
| 14 | He got the sack , cos he got up and left his job overslept and annoyed erm Rachael because she woke him up twice and said come on you 've got to go to work , he said alright then , she , she went back to bed thinking he 'd get up and of course he were still laying in bed , I woke him up at five to eleven , said come on you 're an hour late , but when he got down there they said no it 's no good you 've got the sack , and he said well it 's your own fault then cos you were woke up twice by Rachael at nine o'clock , he had n't , he could have got up and gone to work , just idle we met him twice , it really upset him |
| 15 | Sandy thought his 68 was just about the worst he could have got out of the round , driving like that . |
| 16 | Dougal did n't struggle : even if he could have got out of the duvet , he would n't have stood a chance . |
| 17 | If he had fought Dadda , with the backing of the school and the rumblings there had been about court orders to override parents , if he had struggled , he could have got there . |
| 18 | All for money — yet if he 'd got legless and run someone over and killed them , he 'd have got away with some poxy little sentence . |
| 19 | Somehow he 'd have to get up to the wood today to fetch down his Dad 's clippers and wire . |
| 20 | He was a bit of a character — he 'd have to get up at about four o'clock in the morning to cycle to work , and during the war , he was hurtling along during a blackout when suddenly the road disappeared and he went careering into a bomb crater , about 50 feet wide and 40 feet deep . |
| 21 | Er four hundred , four hundred , to , four hundreds if it 'd won , for a place he would have get less , but he was still in it it was |
| 22 | Where a week ago a man could stand up to his full height behind them without being seen , now he had to stoop ; tomorrow , perhaps , he would have to get down on his hands and knees . |
| 23 | At ten o'clock that same night , while Suor Eusebia was engaging the carabinieri in conversation , he would have to get out of one of the upper windows of the building and slide down a drainpipe . |
| 24 | Saturday was the one day on which he seemed to arrive early at the Herald office , but she doubted whether he would have got there yet . |
| 25 | He might not even be there and the whole thing would have been for nothing and all he would have got out of it would have been kicks . |
| 26 | He will have got clear by now . ’ |