Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] have [verb] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , it can not be ignored that Marco did n't have many options , since Eddie was about to kill him , and Marco 's actions were in self-defence : I think that Marco may only have beaten Eddie up had he not drawn the knife , but not killed him . |
| 2 | Elves , like dragons , are embedded deeply in several different traditions of North-West Europe , and the inconsistencies of those traditions may only have made Tolkien itch to create a Zusammenhang . |
| 3 | Wear Valley Council may only have promised Stanley United FC two footballs ( Gadfly March 4 ) but the hidden agenda looks more promising . |
| 4 | She should perhaps have brought Glyn after all . |
| 5 | In EastEnders you really are concerned with whether or not Sharon should be trying to find her mother , or whether her mother should really have treated Sharon like that , and whether Michelle should have told Sharon that her mother was pregnant . |
| 6 | Green must surely have seen Sandby 's landscape prints and possibly some of his paintings . |
| 7 | Yet the favours and appointments she showered on him must surely have given Bothwell reason to assume that he could interpret her secret wishes . |
| 8 | Rose should surely have reached Vetch Street by now and Eddie been sent on his way by Matey or McAllister after being summoned from his nearby home . |
| 9 | This was surprising because Peter Such bowled so well at the other end , it should surely have helped Tufnell . |
| 10 | Only then did she see that she should never have accepted Ven 's invitation . |
| 11 | He should never have let Lee go out on his own . |
| 12 | They should never have let Carolyn out of hospital like that . |
| 13 | If you ask me , we should never have let Mr Kebbel go . ’ |
| 14 | He says : ‘ We should never have allowed Scotland to draw 2–2 a year ago in our European tie in Berne . |
| 15 | I think you should never have married Andrew . |
| 16 | Should never have told Bill . |
| 17 | One or two of the demonstrating ladies had sat down on the pavement ( they should never have shown Gandhi on TV ) and were singing ‘ the one with the waggerly tail … ’ with gusto . |
| 18 | Gretchen Turner knew she should never have left Des Moines with Barry , the electrofence salesman . |
| 19 | We 're talking about three nine six G M B Parliamentary Panel Dick and I 'll just have to follow Duncan , he had his little rhetoric on the Labour Party that he 's he believes in so much . |
| 20 | Well you 'll just have to cry Bryony because you 're going to have them on because it keeps raining . |
| 21 | She knew the geography of the place ; she might easily have followed Newley down to Miller 's End . |
| 22 | So I might need , if I land on that I 'll probably have to sell Fleet Street to be able to survive . |
| 23 | The expression , ‘ Up Sauchie , doon Buchie , and alang Argyle ’ , which referred to nocturnal activities that ran parallel to the day-time ambience of these great Clydeside boulevards , might also have included Blythswood Square , once home of the infamous poisoner Madaleine Smith , and latterly , numerous other ladies with hearts of loose change and the instincts of a blushing tarantula . |
| 24 | Their heavy-handed approach might also have deterred Madame Vassoir — if there was such a person — from co-operating , whereas Charlotte was uniquely well placed as Beatrix 's niece and Samantha 's aunt to appeal to her on behalf of the whole family . |
| 25 | If Charlie had been a different man , a cultivated man or effeminate or living in a bygone age when tongues were more freely unloosed , he might now have embraced Jack and told him from a full heart how he entered wholly into his joy and would die for his happiness . |
| 26 | A director other than Browne might have given more theatrical conviction to the Furies , as other more recent productions have done , and a more enthusiastic public response might then have persuaded Eliot to continue with his exploration of symbolist drama . |
| 27 | It is inconceivable that Eliza would have married Wickham , just as Lucy could only have married George . |
| 28 | They could comfortably have accommodated Shostakovich 's other ‘ happy ’ Symphony ( No. 9 ) , particularly if these two releases are the fist in a complete cycle . |
| 29 | George made a great sacrifice by killing Lennie as the people chasing him were very angry and could easily have killed George through their anger . |
| 30 | Yet although the hardening of lines seems ominous in retrospect and the thin tie of Reinsurance could hardly have linked Russia and Germany for long , it could be argued that in 1888 Bismarck 's system was still successful . |