Example sentences of "they [modal v] have seen " in BNC.
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| 1 | Either of them may have seen the killer . |
| 2 | The police took the immediate neighbours into their confidence out of sheer necessity , hoping one of them might have seen or heard something significant the previous Tuesday ; but none had . |
| 3 | The other monkeys might have been responding to a visual signal or they may have seen the leopard themselves . |
| 4 | In other words , they may have seen it as a means of safeguarding their referral patterns , which might have been threatened had they been forced to restrict themselves to contracts made by district health authority purchasers . |
| 5 | For instance , drama/theatre studies has now come to be seen as a mixture of improvisation , responding to a set text and the evaluation of both pupil 's own work as well as performances they may have seen . |
| 6 | They may have seen some dangers in Methodism which were not in fact there . |
| 7 | Detectives want to speak to anyone who thinks they may have seen them . |
| 8 | They must have seen him coming . |
| 9 | ‘ That is the only person as far as we are aware who was in the area at the time , and they must have seen what happened , but so far they have not come forward . ’ |
| 10 | But they must have seen how he hated it . |
| 11 | They must have seen us come . |
| 12 | They must have seen his lights for they were at the door , and a couple of minutes later he was in their brightly-lit living-room standing by a blazing fire and being asked what he would drink . |
| 13 | They must have seen you follow Santerre . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ They must have seen us ! ’ |
| 15 | I know that my right hon. Friend and the Downing street team , the socialists with their council contracts , and the Liberal Democrats because they know a good bandwagon when they see one — and they must have seen one , because not a single Liberal Democrat is present — all claim to have sired the citizens charter concept . |
| 16 | Surely they must have seen us once ? |
| 17 | over round the left hand side in the first place , but she must have been in the wrong so they must have seen it as well , they have n't really got a strong case so they threw it out of court and last week he had a letter , he opened it , from the , from the court , and he thought oh gawld here we go again , he 's got jury service , oh |
| 18 | they must have seen it land or something like that . |
| 19 | I 've got a lot to tell him and Jim and by then they should have seen our chairman . |
| 20 | Had they been able to put down for a minute our in-depth features on Geraldo , Victor Sylvester and some accordions , they might have seen something half-decent on the box . |
| 21 | On the other hand , from a different vantage point they might have seen the body without having to go right to the edge . |
| 22 | Memories of the marathon " sew-in " before she left home for the International Youth Congress could not have failed to bring a smile to Eva 's lips , or those of her sisters , if they could have seen her stitching away patiently and efficiently on a hand-driven sewing machine . |
| 23 | They 'd have seen him walk toward the escalators as the car drew away , moving as if on some rudimentary automatic pilot . |
| 24 | And then , as the escalator carried him up into the main concourse of the station , they 'd have seen the spark returning almost like the glow of a neon tube being borne up into a powerful field of energy . |
| 25 | Well I think more than anything if they 'd have seen the state she was in after she 'd had this |
| 26 | But looked at a er at any ordinance survey map , they 'd have seen that they got the track plan wrong . |
| 27 | If anyone had been paying any attention , they would have seen the drooping head suddenly lift , the hands come away from the mouth , and the strained facial muscles relax . |
| 28 | If anything had been moving they would have seen it immediately : and where the turf ended , the sky began . |
| 29 | " We may regret that the Commissioners did not pursue a more spirited foreign policy and visit the United States of America , where , beyond a doubt , they would have seen results which would have qualified their condemnation of the combined system . |
| 30 | If the Government had wanted to make the Bill an election winner , they would have seen that political advantage . |