Example sentences of "[verb] he [modal v] have " in BNC.

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1 With the funding John Makepeace has attracted he should have no difficulty finding the students .
2 Petrol , food and a few tools had been his biggest expenses so far , and if the budget started to tighten he 'd have to stop buying food and see what he could find in the woodland around him .
3 His determination to deny them the ‘ improved living and working conditions , proper social protection , dialogue between management and labour ’ aspired to by the Maastricht social chapter suggest he may have had a different community in mind from the sort outside the gates of Timex .
4 She maintained he should have got the chance to give the facts of ‘ the very complicated case ’ from his own point of view .
5 Well , maybe they were n't his exact words , but I expect he would have come up with something like that had he been asked for his thoughts on Carter 's ‘ Only Living Boy In New Cross ’ .
6 I expect he could have managed the operation much more easily by himself .
7 I expect he will have gone home to bed . ’
8 ‘ Well , I expect he will have . ’
9 ‘ Now I realise he could have raped me . ’
10 Whitlock doubted he would have another gun but he still approached the warehouse with professional caution .
11 A couple more feet and even if the toe had caught he would have gone over backwards .
12 There is no doubt if he had ever been caught he would have hanged , ’ said Mr Stephenson , who left the police as an inspector in 1977 .
13 Doctor Sloan of Ayr who conducted a post mortem examination on John was approached later by a group of old miners with the question , The doctor confessed that he had not paid particular attention to the man 's feet , whereat the miners went off with knowing expressions on their faces ; superstition had convinced them that if the doctor had looked he would have seen cloven hoofs , proving that the devil had appeared in the guise of John Brown for some evil purpose of his own .
14 Lutton , reasonably happy with his performance in last weekend 's Irish trials in Dublin , accepts he may have to wait that little bit longer to gain Irish recognition .
15 That has whetted Graham 's appetite for more honours — and he accepts he 'll have to keep filling the Highbury trophy room if he is to guarantee his future at the club .
16 But before he 's even fit enough to be flown home , doctors say he 'll have to spend at least a fortnight in hospital .
17 I say he 'll have to make a will now .
18 They say he should have waited around like a good boy , taken a few duff , even Duff fights , and he would have been rewarded in due course by boxing 's power brokers .
19 They say he could have a future when he 's finished his studies . "
20 ‘ And if he 's got things like your class take for granted you jump right on him , say he must have nicked them .
21 ‘ If he 's got things like your class take for granted , ’ the girl had said , ‘ you say he must have nicked them . ’
22 You say he can have it when Hoomey and all swim however many lengths in four minutes , whatever many it has to be . ’
23 In a contract of sale , other than one to which subsection ( 3 ) below applies , there is an implied condition on the part of the seller that in the case of a sale he has a right to sell the goods , and in the case of an agreement to sell he will have such a right at the time when the property is to pass .
24 No explanation for the fall was ever given , though Sir Thomas believed he may have been involved in some stupid jape .
25 One anonymous caller told police he thought he had been in prison with the man during the 1960s and another believed he may have worked with the kidnapper two years ago .
26 According to one report , he told a group of journalists that he believed he ought to have been given the interim presidency .
27 It turned out he was escaping a planned course of ECT because no one on his ward believed he might have a drink problem .
28 Max Jacob believed he should have been given full credit for persuading Modi to return to painting .
29 Theo the go-between was soon urgently warning Vincent that his parents believed he should have treatment and were in touch with the lunatic asylum at Geel near Antwerp .
30 The ugly weal across his throat told its own story of why he was unable to say what had happened , although the gamekeeper believed he must have been swept from his horse by the low-lying branch of a tree .
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