Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [verb] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Either of them may have seen the killer . |
| 2 | ’ The concluding words show that a claim to contribution might arise under the Act of 1935 out of tortious conduct committed by two or more persons even though one or both of them may have committed a crime in the course of such conduct . |
| 3 | WHEN military dictators fall , the democrats who follow them must try to restore the rule of law , as well as rule by the majority . |
| 4 | I think , however , I may have discovered a cure . |
| 5 | Not much to report this week on the home front , except that I have a sneaking feeling I may have broken a bone in my right hand . |
| 6 | But the time has come to admit that in my efforts to explain this one valid point I may have misled the reader in other ways . |
| 7 | ‘ The baby is scheduled at the end of March , but if it is late , I may have to miss the Masters . |
| 8 | But I feel I should return just a moment to the matter of my father ; for it strikes me I may have given the impression earlier that I treated him rather bluntly over his declining abilities . |
| 9 | In distinguishing between ( a ) and ( b ) I may have given the impression of wishing to maintain a strict distinction between space and time as against the physical space-time . |
| 10 | I may have hit the Mel Sterland fan club here . |
| 11 | I suppose I 've seen Matthew with the safe open , and I may have noticed the books , but this firm has been going for more than a century and one does n't take much notice of such things , one has grown up with them . ’ |
| 12 | I may have to spend a lot of my time in Scotland now — perhaps even look for a Scottish constituency — and your work is in London . ’ |
| 13 | I may have abused the trust Dr Kingdom placed in me . ’ |
| 14 | Raymond is n't fond of Jewish cooking and I may have lost the knack . |
| 15 | ‘ I may have got the idea from him in the first place , but that 's all . |
| 16 | by then I may have sold the house and , I mean , as soon as I sell the house |
| 17 | A little too sweet , and I may have overdone the spice . |
| 18 | I may have to learn a notion of proof different from that to which I am accustomed . |
| 19 | I may have changed a word here or there , but apart from that it 's all exact . |
| 20 | Miss Blagden duly took the wretched gun and it was she who was kind enough to write on delivering it : — I found your husband very well , Wilson , and as expected by you much agitated over the rumours that another concerted effort is to be made to free and unite his country which subject I may say engages the minds and hearts of his employers hardly less . |
| 21 | ‘ I ought to 'ave known the likes of you would n't do all the things you 've done for nothing . |
| 22 | I must have knocked it or something and I 'd a couple of shots left and I ought to have shot the swine but I could n't , not while he was sitting there killing himself laughing . |
| 23 | I supposed that I ought to have brought the Ghost down too , but the priority had been to save myself from what seemed like imminent electrocution . |
| 24 | I must stop taking the mickey out of Banbury United . |
| 25 | I must start using the library . |
| 26 | I decided I must try to find the man who had been watching us . |
| 27 | It would be tedious and is not , I think , necessary to examine them all but I must seek to trace the development of the law through the main decisions and I intend to refer to them in chronological order . |
| 28 | I must have heard a car door slam , or something . ’ |
| 29 | I must have heard the Brahms C major Sonata countless times , yet I can not recall having ever encountered a reading which balances the young composer 's variegated , emotionally charged adolescent outpourings as unerringly as Richter does here . |
| 30 | I must have destroyed a bomber ! |