Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [verb] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for the library , the surviving books without a proper building to house them must have made a dismal appearance . |
| 2 | The story that one of them must have told a Daily Sketch reporter a year later was that sitting in a West End club and finding the cold unbearable they had decided to go somewhere warm . |
| 3 | Two of the several names owned by another recipient had strayed into someone 's word-processor to create a further deserving don , the knowing reference to whom must have ruined the new year for more than one senior scholar . |
| 4 | God willing , Pa says , I may get to have a double helping tomorrow . |
| 5 | I just wanted to say three brief things about the boundaries , before doing so I think I may have to declare a personal interest . |
| 6 | I may have asked a few more questions ; I ca n't remember now . |
| 7 | ‘ I may have to miss the first game but I 'm hoping to get myself a boot made for my left foot with a steel plate in it to protect the toe so that I can practice as soon as I get to India . ’ |
| 8 | I hope I may have given a few ideas and if anyone makes their fortune and buys a villa in the South of France , will you invite me for a holiday , please ? |
| 9 | I may have made an unconscious movement towards him because he gave me a last malevolent grin and disappeared into the crowd . |
| 10 | ‘ I may have got a better deal by moving to Australia , and I still have ambitions to play there . |
| 11 | Do you consider that I may have committed a disciplinary offence ? |
| 12 | I may have had a foolish mother but at least she was there . |
| 13 | I may have had a few words with her , but that 's all . ’ |
| 14 | I MAY have had a sheltered upbringing , but to me gin has always been one of the most sophisticated of drinks . |
| 15 | Doo I must 've crossed every fucking road |
| 16 | Now I must try to get the young people dancing . ’ |
| 17 | I must have cut a handsome figure up there , black and glossy , and she could hardly fail to have been impressed . |
| 18 | Yes , Yes , Yes : - ) I must have formed a mental block on the exact details due to the severe trauma involved ! |
| 19 | ‘ But Ivy has turned out to be so good for me I must have done the right thing . |
| 20 | She said she was sure I must have missed an English Christmas abroad all these years . |
| 21 | Somehow I must have missed the original LPs ( or perhaps they were never released this side of the Atlantic ) , but here are Jean-Pierre Rampal , Isaac Stern , Yo-Yo Ma mixing it up with Japanese instrumentalists , playing traditional oriental music alongside pieces by Yamada , Miyagi , and Yoshizawa , amongst others . |
| 22 | I must have missed the next few sentences . |
| 23 | Between the Arch and the back of the Admiralty proper runs a small unnamed side-street which I must have passed a hundred times without really noticing . |
| 24 | Sorry , I 'm reading the wrong dates here That 's right , it ca n't be the twelfth , I must have meant the fourteenth . |
| 25 | So I told him I must have got the wrong number . |
| 26 | Martinho and I must have seemed a bad pair to him . |
| 27 | I think I must have taken a wrong turning somewhere , because we 're certainly not at Threlkeld , where we ought to be by now . |
| 28 | ‘ I think I must have aged a dozen years today , ’ she said . |
| 29 | ‘ I must have spent the last week talking to hundreds of players . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm sorry , I must have had a bad dream and screamed in my sleep . ’ |