Example sentences of "he [modal v] have be the [num ord] " in BNC.
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1 | He should have been the last person to be killed . |
2 | She learned that Maxim had an elder sister — oddly , she 'd always assumed he must have been the first child — who had married a Quaker school-master and lived up North , had three children and did n't work , ‘ Except at disapproving of the Army , ’ Maxim added . |
3 | He must have been the first cousin of Man . |
4 | He must have been the last to drink it . |
5 | I think he might have been the first black player in England but I know Celtic fielded jazz and rap pioneer Gil Scott Heron 's Dad in the 30s — a great success there apparently . |
6 | He would have been the first person to agree that this is an inadequate label for a process in which some sets of ideas are restructured and some are rejected . |
7 | He would have been the first non-Scandinavian to star in a Bergman film , an honour which went eventually to the more laid-back Elliott Gould . |
8 | ‘ It is 30 years since my father 's first victory here and I am sure he would have been the first to have congratulated Ayrton on breaking his record of five wins . |
9 | If Louis , Martin 's brother-in-law , was in fact the son of Louis and Marie Francard , then he would have been the last Parisian descendant of the line of Louis I Marriage contract of Jacques le Romain , 1728 |