Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] have [verb] some [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | My period comes every month , so I think I may have caught some illness from my husband . |
2 | Yet I must have conveyed some uneasiness to my parents . |
3 | I must have had some lessons at the Legation , though I have no recollection of them , for I learnt to read and write . |
4 | ‘ But I 'm bound to say that in your position I think I should have made some enquiry into his bona fides . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | I knew I should have found some way to follow that pair up to the pond . |
7 | It will be said perhaps that I should have combined some principle of conduct with propositions about the flavours . |
8 | ‘ Well , then I should have married some gypsy who would have trodden all over the fire with his bare feet , ’ said Lili . |
9 | I came here sweating thinking that I might have to do some work |
10 | If you go round and round any more I might have to prescribe some medicine for you . ’ |
11 | I 'll have to do some work . |
12 | I 'll have to get some wood preserver or creosote and |
13 | I 'll have to get some water out of it now . |
14 | I 'll have to get some washing done . |
15 | I think I 'll have to get some straws and you can practise drinking out of th drinking with straws . |
16 | So I 'll have to get some straws and we 'll have to practise |
17 | I 'll have to make some phone calls when I get back to your house . |
18 | I could have saved some diesel and ‘ phoned . |
19 | I could have done some damage if a few of those had dropped , but ‘ if ’ is the biggest word in golf . |
20 | We 'd be like strangers and I could n't bear that , but at least I could have made some redress . ’ |
21 | But I mean they actually do work , er ten percent gross yield and erm if you asked me to explain how they get the ten percent , I 'd have to use some notes they gave to me cos it 's , cos it 's complicated , but they use derivatives , and they buy in er in the shares and options market , and erm the company I 'm thinking of actually own the shares , but you take options on them , and they take commission on the options , they also take dividends , er and by the time you 've read the , the , the spiel , it sounds a bit like you 've fitted all these petrol savers to your car and you 're driving to Nottingham , and the tank overflows , it 's that sort of |
22 | I think perhaps , as I say , I 'd have had some colour . |
23 | I 'd have to find some way of talking to her alone . |
24 | A little longer and I would have had some difficulty . ’ |
25 | ‘ For it to be successful , I would have thought some form of power at least to recommend smallish settlements would be a useful aspect … but I would n't envisage the ombudsman as someone dealing with huge claims . ’ |
26 | I was , as you might imagine , a little taken aback by this request and ordinarily the matter might have been one I would have spent some time pondering . |
27 | I do not believe they do exist in stillwaters , for I am sure I would have found some evidence of the layer theory during the time I have been catching hundreds of stillwater bream . |
28 | I was no longer in Brazil , they said , I was in Bolivia and I would have to show some respect . |
29 | ‘ I shall have to get some water and clean it up ; it is not the look of the thing , it is the infections . ’ |
30 | I shall have to get some bits and pieces |