Example sentences of "she [modal v] have [vb pp] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After her experience at Edgcote she may have doubted this prospect . |
| 2 | She may have had another breakdown , since she speaks of ‘ a great sickness in her head … so that she feared to have lost her wits therethrough ’ . |
| 3 | She may have had some capital of her own , though many a wife in Victorian times was little better off as one man 's wife than she had been as another man 's daughter : |
| 4 | I felt sure she must have escaped this way . |
| 5 | She must have come this way often enough , she was a diligent churchgoer . ’ |
| 6 | She must have had some kind of brainstorm . ’ |
| 7 | She must have had some idea what she was doing . ’ |
| 8 | She must have known last night , while constructing this list . |
| 9 | She must have chosen this psalm . |
| 10 | Downstairs is now vacant , and she should have quit last weekend . |
| 11 | In three months , too , while she knew she would n't get a job that paid as well as the one she had now , she should have secured another job , should n't she ? |
| 12 | I hope councillor has n't been puzzling about this question because I think she should have had adequate warning erm the cycling part of working party was agreed by city board on the ninth of on the seventh of December is to come to an end and such work has er relates to cycling within a new transport working party . |
| 13 | Oh , she should have paid more attention to him when they lay close ; she should have absorbed the hollows and smoothness of his brow and learned him by heart . |
| 14 | She should have expected this turn-around . |
| 15 | Too many people had resented her abrupt intrusion onto the London society circuit , and while she might have gained some measure of respectability , she knew the resentment remained . |
| 16 | Exactly thirty minutes later , Shannon packed the last two brushes into an already crammed hold-all and glanced quickly round the small room , checking for anything she might have missed first time round . |
| 17 | ‘ Poor thing , ’ she might have said another time , but now any sympathy she had for the machine was swamped by her fears for her children . |
| 18 | Alternatively , she might have published that material at a more propitious time . |
| 19 | She might have sat all afternoon , nibbling and stuporous , exhausted but not sleepy ; but the glazier finally came down from the upper floor , cheerfully announcing that all was now right and tight and he would be on his way . |
| 20 | But if I know our Emily , she 'll have found some way of getting out of City Europe . |
| 21 | She may look like mother , but mother would have turned in her grave if she could have seen that girl today ! ’ |
| 22 | ‘ She could have sent that message earlier , but better late than never . |
| 23 | " She could have had any number of others , but no , only he would do . " |
| 24 | She could have borrowed some mascara from her daughter Sally , but it was too late . |
| 25 | It might have been for her , but I thought she could have shown some gratitude , considering the work her stepmother and I had gone to . |
| 26 | ‘ Surely with all the talk of a madman she 'd have volunteered any information the moment Channing crossed the threshold ? ’ |
| 27 | If it had been Everthorpe , she would have dismissed this performance as a clumsy pass , but Wilcox seemed teased by some genuine memory . |
| 28 | If the ferry boat was there it would be quicker , if not she would have lost precious time by not taking the direct path to the bridge . |
| 29 | She was dressed simply enough in a brown gown with a lacy ruff round the neck but she would have outshone any queen . |
| 30 | It was shortly before the time Luke usually arrived on Fridays , and up until today she would have made some excuse to Florian , but reviviscent pride demanded a gesture . |