Example sentences of "man [Wh pn] [modal v] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The overall effect is that the morally indefensible opportunist appears as a very human figure , a man who would have liked to have had his cake and eaten it and who , forced to make choices , alternates between self-congratulation and a sense of self-betrayal . |
| 2 | And as I say ’ ( Morse looked slowly around his audience ) ‘ it was one of your own group who performed this grisly task — a man — a man who would have felt little squeamishness about first stripping the dead man of his clothes — for there had been much blood , much messy , sticky blood which almost inevitably would have transferred itself to the clothes of the man disposing of the body ; a man who for the last ten years of his working life had been inured to such gruesome matters , as a moderately competent ‘ mortician ’ in America . ’ |
| 3 | In the hospital , sitting up for the first time in several days , he had watched the doctor anointing an old man who would have made a superb St Jerome : ‘ a thin , long , sinewy brown wrinkled body with such very distinct and expressive joints that it makes one melancholy not to be able to have him for a model . ’ |
| 4 | Francis : the judge considered why Findlay had signed the interview notes and concluded that the toothache was exaggerated and that though tired he was not the sort of man who would have signed incriminating notes out of consideration for his solicitor . |
| 5 | It would have been a foolish , bull-necked man who would have looked a gift horse in the mouth … so I like to see myself in a small way as following in his footsteps . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ He was the kind of man who would have sold his suspicions for money . ’ |
| 7 | It was even tempting , for here was a man who would have appreciated every irony . |
| 8 | And in a way this answer , like the first , was astonishingly appropriate , brandishing a secret truth and a paradox before a man who would have appreciated it to the full , but could not be let into the secret . |
| 9 | Not , in other words , the kind of man who would have taken his own life within hours of writing that letter to ‘ Liz ’ . |
| 10 | I can think of only one other man who would have taken the political risks involved and that was the late Sir Hugh Fraser . |
| 11 | He could never entirely regret it , because it reminded him of working with Willie , and the passing resolves he made as a grown-up to lose some of it always contained a tang of unease about betraying his professional qualifications in the eyes of a man who would have belted him for such a thing . |
| 12 | And the body of the Cid was prepared after this manner : first it was embalmed and anointed as the history hath already recounted , and the virtue of the balsam and myrrh was such that the flesh remained firm and fair , having its natural colour , and his countenance as it was wont to be , and the eyes open , and his long beard in order , so that there was not a man who would have thought him dead if he had seen him and not known it . |
| 13 | Another man who may have caused difficulties for Quintianus was Arcadius , whose actions prompted Theuderic 's raid on the Auvergne . |
| 14 | A tidy desk and behind it a man who might have come in on the Saturday afternoon for extra work . |
| 15 | ‘ After a few minutes an embarrassed train driver told us the man who should have unlocked the gate had not turned up . ’ |
| 16 | Against them , Jerry Moffatt , the man who should have won the world championship but fell off his bike . |
| 17 | FOR a man who must have thought his career was over six years ago when rejected by Derbyshire , Paul Taylor 's passage to India is indeed a rags-to-riches miracle . |
| 18 | As for the old houses , there were none in the immediate area that I knew of , other than these which had been built as a nostalgic memento , as a reminder , as a gift both to himself and his family from a man who must have known innately that in discarding the past his people were in danger of losing their touchstone . |
| 19 | The man who will have to answer these questions , the new environment Secretary John Gummer , was visiting Cheltenham today by coincidence . |
| 20 | The butcher — a distinguished-looking man who could have served as a model for Mr Micawber and had , also , his turn of phrase . |
| 21 | Somebody took a shot not at the President they could have killed him easily but knocked off a man who could have swung thirty votes in favour of a Berlin settlement . |
| 22 | Thus a man who could have done all sorts of good things is rendered useless ; and the same sort of outcome could follow in a case involving not one but two men , or a hundred or more , or even a whole branch of a family ( progenies ) or at the same time a whole province — if you 're not very careful ! " ( c. 31 ) |
| 23 | Ultimately , it was all too easy for Sainz , who could afford to enjoy the scenery in yesterday 's Scottish forest stages after Kankkunnen , the only man who could have overhauled him in the world title race , lost crucial time when his Lancia hit a rock . |
| 24 | Those men who might have planned sensibly for the inevitable war with Germany had all been shot . |
| 25 | Men who might have gone to England and earned good wages at the harvest now stayed at home and waited for relief work at one-third of those rates . |
| 26 | Detectives are trying to find two men who may have witnessed a murder in a quiet country hamlet . |
| 27 | If Britain is to be saved from the disaster of Mr Major 's own making , it is the policies as well as the men who will have to go . |
| 28 | They are men who will have committed an offence within the confines of their family and community . |
| 29 | The Justices of the Forest were for the most part important men who can have devoted a limited amount of time to their Forest duties . |