Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] [modal v] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I like to think I 'm a good loser , but I do n't like being cheated out of something that I ought to have won , ’ he said . |
| 2 | ‘ I like to think I 'm a good loser , but I do n't like being cheated out of something that I ought to have won , ’ he said . |
| 3 | That does not excuse the fact that I ought to have found out otherwise . ’ |
| 4 | In 1980 , coming back from a hospital in the States where I had been told that I ought to have an operation ( interestingly on my throat — it was as though all the tension caused by what I could not say was caught up there ) , I saw that I had to be free of this . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But against that , although I know that he 'd took three or four very good jobs that I ought to have had , but he was a very , very good detective , a hard working inspector . |
| 7 | I thought I 'd gone before I came out of my house but I had a feeling when I nearly got to their school that I ought to have again . |
| 8 | Would n't speak to me for six months , but then his natural goodness of heart , as well perhaps as his gradual realization that I might have been right , that perhaps I had saved him from a fate worse than death , made it impossible for him to keep it up . |
| 9 | She even had the audacity to suggest that I might have been ‘ carrying on ’ with Sir Vivien . |
| 10 | If I sat still and did not do anything then nothing else could happen that I might have to cope with . |
| 11 | Write Ellen and by express even telegram for which I will pay in order that I might have the relief of knowing you have understood and all is clear . |
| 12 | Imagine my excitement , therefore , when it seemed recently that I might have stumbled across it in the shape of the Tower House in Malmesbury , Wiltshire . |
| 13 | W. Hewer and myself towards Westminster ; and there he carried me to Nott 's , the famous bookbinder , that bound for my Lord Chancellor 's library : and there I did take occasion for curiosity to bespeak a book to be bound , only that I might have one of his binding . |
| 14 | He said nothing for a few seconds , and I sensed that I might have unsettled this policeman . |
| 15 | ‘ Dear lady , dear lady , to think that I might have lived my whole life through and never seen you . |
| 16 | Looking back I am increasingly grateful to the many people who took a share in this fortunate happening , though now I realise that I might have expressed my gratitude to them more often and more appreciatively . |
| 17 | But Lawson then covers his back : ‘ For a time I was concerned that I might have made the wrong choice as Chief Secretary — a view I suspect was shared by John Major himself . ’ |
| 18 | I hope that I might have undertaken work of this kind without the experience of working for North Tyneside Community Development Project ( CDP ) from 1974 to 1977 , but I did and that experience shaped both the conceptualizing and the carrying out of this project . |
| 19 | It did not enter my head that I might have the seeds of a talent , that I too might have a career and that I should be preparing myself for it . |
| 20 | I have n't given her a hint that I might have Nazi sympathies . ’ |
| 21 | I knew now that I might have been foolish to have expected so much from Waite , but he had been the only person who 'd been willing to treat both kidnappers and hostages as human beings and to attempt some kind of understanding about how the situation could be resolved . |
| 22 | It seems to me that I might have my hands busy during a fight , so I 've taught this one to answer to sounds , and to react to the pressure of my thighs . ’ |
| 23 | I was duly slapped down by my more knowledgeable tectonic seniors , and tried to forget the brief publication in question , but later work has now led me to suspect that I might have been right after all . |
| 24 | ‘ And it did n't occur to you that I might have been referring to you ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Did it occur to you that I might have made other arrangements ? ’ she said eventually . |
| 26 | In fact , afterwards the doctor told me that the training had probably helped and that I might have been in a lot more serious trouble if I had not been so fit . |
| 27 | Because it suddenly occurs to me that I might have been left alone to get on with this assignment if my divisional head had n't beamed in on my activities and seen something she did n't like in my relationship with Rainbow . |
| 28 | ‘ It did n't occur to you that I might have a lot on my mind ? |
| 29 | ‘ Has it occurred to you that I nearly disturbed the murderer — that I might have been killed as well ? |
| 30 | I honestly think meself , that I might have a have a couple of hard months , maybe three , first three months might be a bit difficult for me . |