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 | Do you consider that I may have committed a disciplinary offence ? |
| 3 | I may have had a foolish mother but at least she was there . |
| 4 | I MAY have had a sheltered upbringing , but to me gin has always been one of the most sophisticated of drinks . |
| 5 | I must have cut a handsome figure up there , black and glossy , and she could hardly fail to have been impressed . |
| 6 | Yes , Yes , Yes : - ) I must have formed a mental block on the exact details due to the severe trauma involved ! |
| 7 | Martinho and I must have seemed a bad pair to him . |
| 8 | I think I must have taken a wrong turning somewhere , because we 're certainly not at Threlkeld , where we ought to be by now . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm sorry , I must have had a bad dream and screamed in my sleep . ’ |
| 10 | After the night Quigley had kicked my head in , I had finally seen something I should have seen a long time ago . |
| 11 | 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 ! |
| 12 | ‘ I should have kept a short rope on you and then you would never have escaped me . ’ |
| 13 | Though I should have discovered a tolerable way , ’ she said , with force and finality . |
| 14 | I was not told , when we left , that I should have to fight a running battle with four hundred horsemen . |
| 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 | But with the coming of peace , I realised that I should have to face a new , strange , ‘ normal , world — alone . |
| 17 | I should have to know a great deal more about you . |
| 18 | I 've always , I might 've had a little moan , but I 've always to myself |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . ’ |
| 21 | I might have had a splendid pad , |
| 22 | I might have had a different man , a bigger apartment , a bigger car , travel that way instead of this . |
| 23 | I 'll have to wear a long coat . |
| 24 | I 'll have to , I 'll have to arrange a hanging squad here . |
| 25 | I 'll have to buy a new dress . |
| 26 | If you 're taking a holiday more than a three-hour drive from here , he thought , I 'll have to find a different way of doing this . |
| 27 | If anything , I 'll have acquired a Southern drawl . |
| 28 | I think I 'll have to get a new pan . |
| 29 | This bra 's too small , I 'll have to get a new one ! |
| 30 | I think I 'll have to get a new curtain rail it 's that the plastic snapped been on the curtain ring |