Example sentences of "i [vb mod] have [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I just wanted to say three brief things about the boundaries , before doing so I think I may have to declare a personal interest .
2 I may have asked a few more questions ; I ca n't remember now .
3 I hope I may have given a few ideas and if anyone makes their fortune and buys a villa in the South of France , will you invite me for a holiday , please ?
4 I may have got a better deal by moving to Australia , and I still have ambitions to play there .
5 Do you consider that I may have committed a disciplinary offence ?
6 I may have had a foolish mother but at least she was there .
7 I may have had a few words with her , but that 's all . ’
8 I MAY have had a sheltered upbringing , but to me gin has always been one of the most sophisticated of drinks .
9 I must have cut a handsome figure up there , black and glossy , and she could hardly fail to have been impressed .
10 Yes , Yes , Yes : - ) I must have formed a mental block on the exact details due to the severe trauma involved !
11 Between the Arch and the back of the Admiralty proper runs a small unnamed side-street which I must have passed a hundred times without really noticing .
12 Martinho and I must have seemed a bad pair to him .
13 I think I must have taken a wrong turning somewhere , because we 're certainly not at Threlkeld , where we ought to be by now .
14 ‘ I think I must have aged a dozen years today , ’ she said .
15 ‘ I 'm sorry , I must have had a bad dream and screamed in my sleep . ’
16 Perhaps I should have formed a better plan ; perhaps I should have made instead for the Villa Diodati , to see if I could secure any friends and allies there .
17 After the night Quigley had kicked my head in , I had finally seen something I should have seen a long time ago .
18 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 !
19 I should have kept a short rope on you and then you would never have escaped me . ’
20 Though I should have discovered a tolerable way , ’ she said , with force and finality .
21 There I should have welcomed a faster tempo both for the waltz of the first half , and for the galop of the second , both of them evoking the atmosphere of the fairground as a tenth birthday tribute to the Fairfield Hall in Croydon .
22 I was not told , when we left , that I should have to fight a running battle with four hundred horsemen .
23 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 .
24 I should have thought a little evidence of human frailty would merely enhance your reputation — and the association would do mine a power of good ! ’
25 I should have thought a few minutes .
26 There were times , subsequently , when I felt I should have hired a second vet to check the location and fitting of my own cranium .
27 But with the coming of peace , I realised that I should have to face a new , strange , ‘ normal , world — alone .
28 I should have to know a great deal more about you .
29 I 've always , I might 've had a little moan , but I 've always to myself
30 I might have kicked a few people in my time , and some would say I got away with it for twenty years .
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