Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] have [vb pp] a [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 | Do you consider that I may have committed a disciplinary offence ? |
| 4 | I may have had a foolish mother but at least she was there . |
| 5 | I MAY have had a sheltered upbringing , but to me gin has always been one of the most sophisticated of drinks . |
| 6 | I must have cut a handsome figure up there , black and glossy , and she could hardly fail to have been impressed . |
| 7 | Yes , Yes , Yes : - ) I must have formed a mental block on the exact details due to the severe trauma involved ! |
| 8 | Martinho and I must have seemed a bad pair to him . |
| 9 | I think I must have taken a wrong turning somewhere , because we 're certainly not at Threlkeld , where we ought to be by now . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm sorry , I must have had a bad dream and screamed in my sleep . ’ |
| 11 | After the night Quigley had kicked my head in , I had finally seen something I should have seen a long time ago . |
| 12 | But now I have , and I see what I should have seen a long time ago , the selfish , arrogant , unscrupulous fixer who has been quietly feathering his nest in London for the past ten years at our expense after turning his back on us as though we were n't good enough for him , who could n't even be bothered to come home during this ordeal but just flew over on a weekend return when the mood took him , when he had nothing better to do , like the tourist he is ! |
| 13 | ‘ I should have kept a short rope on you and then you would never have escaped me . ’ |
| 14 | Though I should have discovered a tolerable way , ’ she said , with force and finality . |
| 15 | Not many other people take it , either , but we could all read in our own newspapers that it was supporting Labour , and I should have thought a normal reaction among honest Britons , who have grown to mistrust businessmen in the age of takeovers , would be to do the opposite . |
| 16 | I 've always , I might 've had a little moan , but I 've always to myself |
| 17 | Ken , would you say though that erm one or two recent announcements connected with these judgments , I think including the er the judge in a recent M C C case which actually went I think against the administrators , b on shares but actually the judge said if the argument had been made that er these assets were held er on a trustee basis , then I might have made a different decision . |
| 18 | He turned west , down to the hotel at Loweswater where , as he was to report to Newton , ‘ I might have landed a fine salmon trout . ’ |
| 19 | I might have had a splendid pad , |
| 20 | I might have had a different man , a bigger apartment , a bigger car , travel that way instead of this . |
| 21 | If anything , I 'll have acquired a Southern drawl . |
| 22 | I 'll have had a good life , and I 'll have tried , and I 'll have made something of myself . |
| 23 | If I could 've worn a red jersey that would 've been it . |
| 24 | If I could have seen a respectable way to dismiss this appeal I should have been happy to do so . |
| 25 | I could have turned a blind eye , but to grab it and to throw it to the hounds I think was absolutely abysmal . |
| 26 | Had I known that the previous year , I could have made a good case to contest the abolition of my old job . |
| 27 | ‘ I could have made a real mess of that hole , but I took a calculated gamble and it paid off , ’ added Faldo , who walked off the green with a bogey four — one shot less than he registered in the first round . |
| 28 | I could have made a real fortune becoming Mr Vietnam , I could have hit the lecture circuit , I could have spun it out into a fabulous little industry , but that 's not interesting . |
| 29 | ‘ But , even if I had felt inclined to do so , there was no way I could have got a decent night 's rest on those small , short bunks next door . ’ |
| 30 | Ha I could have had a lovely new one ! |