Example sentences of "i [modal v] have [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had seventy at the beginning of last year , I think I may have said on the phone , a hundred a sixty five right now . |
| 2 | ( I may have gone through the verbal motions once or twice , but that 's all . ) |
| 3 | Oh I think I may have to go to the toilet before I go home . |
| 4 | I may have embarked on the impossible , ’ Lewis wrote to Sister Penelope on 9 November 1941 . |
| 5 | I may he may I may have died in the end but still , you know he wanted to keep the peace and wanted to be his friend . |
| 6 | Any romanticised impressions I may have had of the East End were quickly tempered if not dispelled by the striking images of endemic poverty and a sclerotic political culture . |
| 7 | I ought to have guessed from the smell , but it was new to me . " |
| 8 | ‘ I feel I must have trained in the Dark Ages . |
| 9 | I must have looked like the mad ape that wandered the streets of our village with its gypsy owner . |
| 10 | She thought I must have died in the previous night 's snowstorm . |
| 11 | ( and here I must have steered across the road ) |
| 12 | Oh I should 've mentioned about the maintenance erm , we wo n't do anything about this floor until the rest of the things are sorted out , I think this is the least of our worries . |
| 13 | Perhaps I should have said at the beginning , although I hope it 's obvious , that the speaker of this poem is , of course , coming back to the town where he was born . |
| 14 | I should have referred to the hon. Member for Dunfermline , West ( Mr. Douglas ) , who comes from Govan . |
| 15 | I 'd hate you to think it was all a ‘ donation' from me , and so I enclose my sponsorship form ( which I did n't realise I should have posted with the cheque ) to show that I had a lot of generous sponsors . |
| 16 | I 'm quite an artistic person ; in retrospect , I think perhaps I should have risen to the challenge and maybe applied to do a language , because I really enjoy literature and languages in my spare time . |
| 17 | I 'm doing what I should have done from the start . ’ |
| 18 | Since then I have done something I should have done in the first place : found a gap in the rushes only ten yards downstream where I can heave into the fish without pulling them into more weed . |
| 19 | So I did what I should have done in the first place , I put the wire hangers and small weights on the edges . |
| 20 | ‘ Probably what I should have done in the first place . |
| 21 | I think I should have stayed at the old school where they had confidence in me . |
| 22 | I KNEW I SHOULD HAVE STAYED IN THE BAR ! |
| 23 | I should have gone to the children 's matinée but the serial , Spider Man , was too frightening . |
| 24 | He was in any case visibly touched that I should have gone to the lengths of copying the essay ; but in those days no other method of putting him in possession of it was available . |
| 25 | I should have gone to the French police at the time , but I did n't , and now the evidence has gone . |
| 26 | I should have complained about the first case , but I was inexperienced then . |
| 27 | I should have started with the rag most loaded with ink . |
| 28 | I should have screamed at the start — whenever the start could now be said to be . |
| 29 | ‘ I should have left with the kings and forgotten my home . |
| 30 | Then , alone there in his room , I began to laugh , as I should have laughed at the time . |