Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [verb] [vb pp] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I am sure that the House wished to join him in sending its sympathy to the many victims , some of whom may have suffered irreparable damage . |
2 | Some of them may have become bottom living , crawling hunters for which a gastropod-like shell would have been more appropriate . |
3 | I certainly do n't prefer the figurative though I may have lent this way at one time . |
4 | I may have seen many Garter Snakes on sale which I took to be pattern variations on the species most commonly available . |
5 | Well research suggests that something like eighty eight percent , that 's research by Klaus and Bass , Klaus and Bass nineteen eighty-eight , actually I may have got that date wrong so I 'm not sure you should quote the date , anyway it 's Klaus and Bass . |
6 | My period comes every month , so I think I may have caught some illness from my husband . |
7 | ‘ I suppose I ought to have made more enquiries when I was inviting him — I mean , it would seem discourteous to ignore her , if she exists . |
8 | ‘ When we started out , I must 've practised twelve hours a day for three months , spending hours working on an open string to get those eighth notes , and the triplets shuffle effect — talk about your hands being a bloody mess . |
9 | I must have waited several minutes , I should have known but I could n't bear the suspense . |
10 | That 's alright that , I must have done six loads of washing , for some reason I just did n't seem to have enough to do me loads |
11 | But I must have missed that film . |
12 | Yet I must have conveyed some uneasiness to my parents . |
13 | I must have passed that florist 's in Rumsey Road several hundred times and never really looked at it , let alone into it . |
14 | I must have chosen this day to have gone and met this man . |
15 | I must have thought this morning . |
16 | No doubt it will transpire that I must have known this Paykhull . ’ |
17 | did I have another conversation , Jess and Lucy so I must have had another conversation with you last night then Jess |
18 | I must have had some lessons at the Legation , though I have no recollection of them , for I learnt to read and write . |
19 | I should have attended that Council meeting you know ? ’ he added more lightly , but I was busy , I sent my excuses . |
20 | ‘ I prayed that I would see you again , ’ he said , ‘ so I could ask the question I should have asked five years ago . |
21 | Oh well yes I should have done one word . |
22 | She meant I did n't girn or make a fuss , and meant I should have stayed that way . |
23 | I should have realised that genius , as some bright spark in the office said , has a lot to do with genes . |
24 | I should have made more effort to get close to her , Claudia thought miserably ; all her efforts had been rebuffed , but , deny it or not , the bond was there and she hesitated to turn her sensitive twin over to Roman Wyatt 's not so tender mercy . |
25 | ‘ But I 'm bound to say that in your position I think I should have made some enquiry into his bona fides . |
26 | But I should have guessed that Hurley and his crowd would again put two and two together and make 22 . |
27 | My relationship with my father had not changed , although I should have welcomed some change , since the days of my early childhood : it is difficult for most parents to admit that their children are growing up and therefore in need of a more flexible parental attitude . |
28 | I have already mentioned the stipulation that before I could qualify for married status I should have passed two language exams . |
29 | I should have thought veterinary surgery was reasonably remunerative . |
30 | I knew I should have found some way to follow that pair up to the pond . |