Example sentences of "he [vb mod] have [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 He captured three quick wickets before Richards and Lloyd ( who passed 7,000 Test runs ) steadied the ship , but then had Richards lbw , although umpire Meyer later admitted that he may have made a mistake and had considered recalling the batsman .
2 Mike Phelan looked like he may have discovered a passage into the second round with a fierce drive which spun off a defender with the goalkeeper stranded .
3 He may have created a settlement overseas which in turn owns an underlying company , which underlying company receives UK dividends .
4 It is eminently practical , and he thinks he may have started a trend .
5 And he may have taken a drink or two to steady his nerves .
6 No , no he was n't well , I went to see her er I think he may have had a stroke and he ca n't get about very well at all
7 Most of the printed newsbooks now attributed to Mabbott 's editorship were probably not written by him , although there is some evidence that he may have had a hand in The Perfect Diurnall ( 1642–55 ) , edited by Samuel Pecke .
8 ‘ He 's circling again but if the undercarriage fails it looks as if he may have to make a crash landing .
9 He may have admitted a friend or relative , although that 's even more doubtful .
10 It was thought he may have set a match to it himself .
11 He should have done a bit of minding years ago . ’
12 They claim he should have faced a Crown Court judge for causing death by reckless driving .
13 He should have raced a lot more , beaten a lot more people ; he was certainly capable of it .
14 He missed a few chances ; reckoned he should have scored a hat-trick .
15 It is astonishing that he should have made a riposte about housing benefit being available to the poor for housing costs and to have given the impression that he was in favour of housing benefit .
16 He should have made a point of looking at the evening coverage before doing his own piece ; but he 'd seen the people they 'd sent to the press conference at the hospital , dismissed them as unlikely to do a decent job on it , and promptly forgotten them .
17 It is surely one of the most cruel twists of fate that a man who has demonstrated such commitment , as well as compassion to overcome so many other problems during his life — and indeed to have helped so many others to have done the same — that he should have become a victim of medical science .
18 Although Pond praised him as a ‘ middle-class Englishman … the personification of all their sterling traits and sturdy characteristics ’ , there were problems over whether or not he should have taken a fee for giving a eulogy on his friend , Henry Ward Beecher , at Beecher 's Brooklyn church .
19 I thought Collimore had good break three against two and I thought the the ball he should have played he should have measured a ball into er Kingsley Black 's stride .
20 I was amused by J. Lipton 's letter in the November issue , in which he says that having driven a nail in the wood , if it splits , he knows he should have used a screw .
21 Many believe he should have had a career in professional soccer but in those days , as now , top scouts were unaccountably remiss in visiting ‘ The Tip ’ .
22 No one will explain why he should have had a turtle-shell to lie in instead of some more orthodox cradle , but during the anti-monarchical excesses of the French Revolution this venerable carapace is said to have been saved from destruction by a naturalist of Pau , who was able to switch it for one without any such incriminatory associations from his own collection .
23 I thought he must have gone a bit ga-ga but there was no harm so I went up to my room and did my hair a bit .
24 As Charles stood in his doorway and looked around , he must have seen a bustle of activity and a variety of dwellings only possible before the days of clinical town planning .
25 I could n't help thinking that he must have made a mistake .
26 Said he must have made a mistake and it was the Cynthia T. The Cynthia had one of the new masters whom I did n't know , so I could n't do anything .
27 I think he must have eaten a lot of it , though if it tasted anything like it smelt it must have been vile .
28 Nick had his sunglasses on , he must have looked a bit touched .
29 He must have looked a sight but he did n't think so then .
30 I thought he had just punched me but he must have produced a knife , ’ Mr Norrie mumbled through his swollen mouth .
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