Example sentences of "what they [modal v] have [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forgive others for what they may have done to you in the past ; and forgive yourself as well — you have probably learned much from your mistakes . |
| 2 | Now , however , the French , no matter what they might have thought of American rhetoric , could at least pretend that they took it seriously and that their actions were being taken in defence of ‘ the free world ’ . |
| 3 | Even allowing for what they would have lost on laundering the proceeds , there should have been a tidy sum . |
| 4 | Because of what they would have done to us . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Can you imagine what they would have done to anyone who spilled the beans ? ’ |
| 6 | Piers asked Alyssia pleasantly , and she again felt as though they were both making an enormous effort to include her in what they would have preferred to be an intimate tête-à-tête . |
| 7 | Cuvier had reconstructed extinct mammals , but here the analogies with living elephants , bears and rhinoceroses were close enough for nobody to doubt what they must have looked like . |
| 8 | I wish I could give these women their time again , to take them to the hills and show them what they could have shared with their selfish husbands , show them how a ridge-walk compares to a coffee morning in a draughty church hall , and how they could have become more in tune with their spirit and feelings up here than stuck down there watching television soap operas . |