Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] [verb] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Either of them may have seen the killer . |
| 2 | WHEN military dictators fall , the democrats who follow them must try to restore the rule of law , as well as rule by the majority . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ The baby is scheduled at the end of March , but if it is late , I may have to miss the Masters . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I may have hit the Mel Sterland fan club here . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | I may have abused the trust Dr Kingdom placed in me . ’ |
| 10 | Raymond is n't fond of Jewish cooking and I may have lost the knack . |
| 11 | ‘ I may have got the idea from him in the first place , but that 's all . |
| 12 | by then I may have sold the house and , I mean , as soon as I sell the house |
| 13 | A little too sweet , and I may have overdone the spice . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ I ought to 'ave known the likes of you would n't do all the things you 've done for nothing . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I must stop taking the mickey out of Banbury United . |
| 19 | I must start using the library . |
| 20 | I decided I must try to find the man who had been watching us . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I must have accepted the prospect of this baby with a vengeance , if I were seriously thinking of knitting as a desirable occupation . |
| 24 | But I must have felt the need for some support , because I found I 'd grabbed hold of one of my hammers — a geologist is always armed with a hammer — and when I got through to the back of the house he was there already , at the kitchen window . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I must have left the garage door open . |
| 26 | I think I must have known the truth about myself , in some deep part of my mind , when I first read those few pages of your book in my master 's study . |
| 27 | I must have underestimated the benefit of my practice with the neighbour 's cat , since my attempt seemed to sail on and on before it thudded to the ground . |
| 28 | I must postpone reliving the stages of failure because it 's too much , too much for me at once . |
| 29 | I should prefer to see the Bill amended so that the two Light Railways Acts were repealed only in England and Wales . |
| 30 | I used to ask what I should do to fill the day and he 'd simply say go to the park and knit . |