Example sentences of "they [modal v] [vb infin] [be] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The banker sat at an enormous desk surrounded by acres of carpet , in a room hung with what looked like Dutch Old Masters , though I suppose they may have been reproductions . |
| 2 | But in addition there was apparently some connection between their grandparents so they may have been cousins also . |
| 3 | Or they may have been hunters after larger prey , in which case when appendages are eventually discovered they may prove to have adaptations for grasping and manipulating larger food . |
| 4 | They may have been colleagues , school friends or bowls partners with whom we shared moments of laughter , persecution or triumph . |
| 5 | They must have been sleepers . |
| 6 | Then a police car pulled in behind , then another one , and four lovely bobbies got out and told the Americans — well , they must have been Americans , and huge they were — to put their guns away or be disarmed . |
| 7 | Fight as they did to keep the canoe on course they were driven westward of Castiglione ( near Sidi Ferruch ) when they should have been east of this port . |
| 8 | DESPITE Oberon 's joyful pact with Titania , ask any dance enthusiast to name a ballet based on a Shakespeare play and the chances are the one they 'll mention is Romeo and Juliet . |
| 9 | I 've thought about next thing they 'll do is holograms next . |
| 10 | Programmed visits , yes , I think they 'll have been debt inspections that have carried out , whereas the higher figures above them are audit , and these are the ones that take more time , and are programmed to deal with everything , you know . |
| 11 | The only thing they 'll understand are people out on the streets demonstrating . |
| 12 | The whole route was lined by men of the Cent-Gardes , whose immobility was such that according to one guest ‘ they might have been statues ’ , but she felt unable to study them in detail , so terrified was she of slipping on the highly polished parquet that her whole mind was fixed on arriving safely at the dining room . |
| 13 | Apart from their costumes and the props that they carried , they might have been factory workers anywhere . |
| 14 | But er they might have been assumptions that we should n't have made . |
| 15 | They might have been lovers . |
| 16 | On another low table by the wall there was an inexpensive stereo unit and some uneven stacks of records ; he could n't make out the details on the posters on the wall above the unit , but they might have been Escher prints . |
| 17 | They might have been twins . |
| 18 | All they could do was watch and wait , trigger off several fuses and watch them burn until one of them , hopefully , ran its full course . |
| 19 | Police made fifty arrests , mostly on drugs charges , but say that for most of the time , all they could do was watch . |
| 20 | By the time they arrived the party was in full swing and all they could do was watch . |
| 21 | All they could do was work from day to day , from performance to performance , and through the second week , Charles started to feel his confidence in the part building up again . |
| 22 | I did go down to my local Citizens ' Advice Bureau to see if they had any ideas , but all they could do was pass on the news that there was a squeeze on the social fund ( the emergency payments fund ) , so I was well advised not to expect too much if I did decide to try the social security people . |
| 23 | All they could do was talk about their next movie , and I 'm thinking , ‘ Have we finished this one ? ’ ’ |
| 24 | All they could do was wait . |
| 25 | The best thing they could do was comb the hundreds of pubs in the area . |
| 26 | Gillroy and Davies hit the roof several times before managing to strap themselves down in the cabin , where all they could do was sit ashen-faced and pray . |
| 27 | ‘ Twenty years ago two mediums told me all they could see was bags of money over my head . |
| 28 | ‘ Twenty years ago , two mediums told me all they could see was bags of money over my head . |
| 29 | Indeed , they could have been Hal and his rascally crew . |
| 30 | They could have been members of the House of Atreus . |