Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [vb infin] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were plenty of people in the pub , and some of them must have overheard Dennis 's vicious mockery of our suggested alternatives , a walk on Shotover or Otmoor , for example . |
| 2 | Whatever abstract mathematical objects I may choose to represent energy or momentum , the consequence of actually measuring them is the concrete one of finding that I have present so many units of whatever it is . |
| 3 | I may go to see Alida Thorne . |
| 4 | I may venture to add Jerry and I were probably the first Scottish kids to hear this coming over the air . |
| 5 | That is to say , I may have appeared calm , but inside anxiety raged . |
| 6 | I may have to use varnish stripper . |
| 7 | ‘ I may have said AZT in our interviews but that was a mistake , ’ he wrote . |
| 8 | ‘ But I hope not for two weeks — and then with any luck not on a Friday , or I may have to ask Doctor Masters to deputise for me . ’ |
| 9 | I 've got the finance I need and I may have found premises . ’ |
| 10 | Theodora said slowly , ‘ I think I may have known Mrs Marr . ’ |
| 11 | However , once our son arrives , I may have got things on an even keel and be able to take some time off . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I may have told Mrs Quatt that my position demands that I remain impartial , but one can not entirely prevent oneself from having human feelings and preferences ! ’ |
| 13 | And reaching 30 in a recession is a special problem in itself — I may have to tread water in my career for some years because there is no chink of promotion in my business . |
| 14 | Did I tell you I may have to have surgery ? |
| 15 | In my long journey I may have acquired illness and age , but I had gathered something too . |
| 16 | ‘ Do n't you think someone should go to tell Steve that his mother is not there ? ’ she said to Dagmar , as the day drew in . |
| 17 | ‘ Someone should have stopped Hereward , you know , before now . ’ |
| 18 | Now I must go to say goodbye to Tess Darrell , and apologise for half-trained servant girls . |
| 19 | Ah , ’ she murmured , ‘ I must go to see cook about dinner . ’ |
| 20 | The first task will be to remove saplings growing too close to the bridge , but I must hasten to reassure conservationists that we were unanimous in agreeing that this must be done sensitively . |
| 21 | To decide , I require not only facts but awareness of how it is likely to feel passing my declining years in that village , and for that I must try to achieve independence of my personal and present viewpoint , reduce it to equality with other viewpoints . |
| 22 | If the hon. Gentleman will forgive me , following the example of the hon. Member for Huddersfield , I must try to make progress in the interests of speed . |
| 23 | I suppose I must have seen Christine Baldwin at Larksoken , probably in the canteen . |
| 24 | I must have seen De Mille 's Cleopatra a dozen times . |
| 25 | Then I must have lost consciousness . ’ |
| 26 | I must have startled Lord Hulton in mid fill because I heard a stifled " What … what … oh I say , how absolutely splendid ! " and a fragrant shower of tobacco cascaded from above . |
| 27 | I think I must have expressed dissatisfaction with the ‘ Poetry and Propaganda ’ article , because , like others that I had submitted to him up to that point , it was never to appear . |
| 28 | ‘ I must have met Mrs Marr at some point . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I think I must have left things a bit late ’ , was all he said . |
| 30 | This was just as well , because I must have looked pea green , and it did n't make me feel any better to watch Olive sitting up front chatting to the pilot and navigator , obviously having the time of her life . |