Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] he [modal v] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | It did n't seem right , yet , looking at his face you 'd , she 'd thought he could have come home , but when you lifted the bloody sheets and then she 'd never seen anything like it , and then on the Monday morning , I stayed with him Sunday night and he were on morphine fusions and then on the Monday morning I woke up and mum had gone , when I looked at dad I thought to myself then I thought oh boy you ai n't gon na go now mum nipped home for a bath they said she could and it 'll be alright and they said |
| 2 | ‘ I felt that if we 'd signed he could have given us just that little bit extra up front which would have enabled us to win the title , ’ said Ferguson . |
| 3 | He seemed to think he should have a lot of attention . ’ |
| 4 | He began to realize he would have to overcome his looks . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ If I did ring he 'd have moved on , anyway , he 's more elusive than my daddy . |
| 7 | A couple more feet and even if the toe had caught he would have gone over backwards . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He was a bully , he flew into rages , but to do what Albert believed he had done he would have to be wicked , and Carrie did n't think he was that . |
| 10 | She had thought he might have called , but there had n't even been a message left for her . |
| 11 | If divine omnipotence had been really displayed , the deity would have had to create those other worlds that Bruno 's scholastic predecessors had acknowledged He could have ( but actually had not ) made . |
| 12 | Now this had happened he would have to try to get closer to her , make a fresh start … |
| 13 | I felt sure that if Mr Reed had lived he would have treated me kindly , and now , as I looked round at the dark furniture and the walls in shadow , I began to fear that his ghost might come back to punish his wife for not keeping her promise . |
| 14 | Mr Walker , who had vowed he would have to be evicted with the family , said : ‘ We had hoped for a stay of execution to allow the family to depart with dignity , but the Scottish Office handled the request in the same way as they have handled the whole affair — with massive insensitivity . |
| 15 | If someone had suggested he should have killed them then , where they lay , and avert all the trouble that was to come , Dulé would have been astonished that such a cowardly procedure could be proposed , let alone seriously entertained . |
| 16 | It follows that if the buyer had paid he could have recovered that money . |