Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] have [vb pp] [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 | She knew the geography of the place ; she might easily have followed Newley down to Miller 's End . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It is inconceivable that Eliza would have married Wickham , just as Lucy could only have married George . |
| 25 | They could comfortably have accommodated Shostakovich 's other ‘ happy ’ Symphony ( No. 9 ) , particularly if these two releases are the fist in a complete cycle . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | If they did not and Harris had been free to work for a GUS company which was not in the mail order business he could still have passed Littlewoods ' business secrets back to the mail order companies because of the structure of the GUS group . |
| 29 | Theoretically she could also have told Fiona on the telephone who could have told Nolan or Lewis , but it was n't the sort of item one would naturally bother to pass on . |
| 30 | What will the regular supporters of Manchester United and Leeds United think if either club are denied victory in the Championship because of the greed of some players who could probably have saved Aldershot from their creditors with money from their back pockets ? |