Example sentences of "he [vb past] [modal v] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | and he 'd have come home all black and dirty , and the coal he made would have covered everything with soot |
| 2 | Marxism and racialism are ‘ rather modern ’ , as Waugh would have put it , mindful that the medieval schoolmen and Renaissance Jesuits he idolised would have seen no merit in either of them . |
| 3 | ‘ The potential for what he became must have been in him all the time . ’ |
| 4 | Gradually , however , he realized that he could become a detective investigating his own past and that what he gleaned might have a bearing on the present . |
| 5 | Although Barraclough 's ( 1972 ) suggestion that as many as a fifth of the suicides in a series he studied might have been prevented by the wider use of lithium would be difficult to substantiate and is probably an overestimate , the fact that the lives of as many as 16 per cent of patients with manic-depressive illness may end in suicide ( Pitts and Winokur 1964 ) suggests that lithium is likely to have an important role in the prevention of suicide in some patients . |
| 6 | Is it not clear that the so-called social measures that he rejected would have led to unemployment and the loss of jobs ? |
| 7 | Malcolm Searle , of Lower Soldridge Farm , uncovered what he believed may have been a mortar shell in one of his field . |
| 8 | The official also said that Britain had failed to account for its decision to move the colony 's main naval base out of the centre of Hong Kong , a move which he believed would have serious repercussions for the stationing of the Chinese military in the territory after the 1997 transfer of power . |
| 9 | That burgh was controlled by Provost John Cunningham , whose son was an officer of the Dutch army , and the provost made his wishes quite clear to one of the candidates who solicited the town 's vote whom he believed might have friends in the Netherlands . |
| 10 | The man whose place he took could have died the following week , or the next month . |
| 11 | To see more deeply is only to see what Eliot found in the epigraph from Heart of Darkness which he thought might have been ‘ somewhat elucidative ’ for The Waste Land . |
| 12 | He never had been capable of self-delusion which , in sprightlier moments , he thought might have been the true cause of his notable lack of advancement in politics . |
| 13 | The next day Walter Miller of the Edison Company was asked whether all the musical records he sent would have the title on the end of the cylinder , as they had seen arranged at the laboratory the day before , to which he replied , ‘ Yes sir , they will be fixed up that way ’ . |
| 14 | Bérégovoy had let the budget deficit rise alarmingly rather than raise taxes , which he feared would have cut both demand and the Socialists ' vote . |
| 15 | Granting such an appeal he felt would have endangered respect for the law . |
| 16 | What he did would have looked classy even in today 's harder , faster game of thirty odd years later . |
| 17 | Whatever he did would have gone down well with Quigley . |
| 18 | Gazza said : ‘ Some of what he did might have been wrong but I respect the fact that Maradona made himself the player Napoli could n't do without when he was in Italy . |
| 19 | It seemed to me that various things he did could have gone into other directions , but some kind of self-protective mechanism of his just pulled him back and he did what he knew . ’ |
| 20 | A few years later he discovered , to his fury , that the painters ' prices had soared and the paintings that he despised would have been immensely valuable . |
| 21 | The content of what he said might have chilled her if she had harboured any desire to stay longer — which , she told herself fiercely , she most definitely did not . |
| 22 | Had Johnson walked Drummossie he would have had to contemplate the events there , and the long reverberations of 1746 , and the gloatings and celebrations that took place annually in Inverness long afterwards , and since he was chronically and constitutionally unable not to give an opinion , whatever he said would have landed him in difficulty with somebody . |
| 23 | The Netherlands Prime Minister , Ruud Lubbers , on Feb. 14 halted a $1,500 million sale of four submarines to Taiwan , which he said would have breached a 1984 accord with China [ see pp. 33036-37 ] . |
| 24 | Alexei 's favourite spot was in what he supposed might have been termed a clearing — at least it was in the centre of a circle of four rocks , each one the size of a crouching man . |