Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [vb infin] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am sure that the House wished to join him in sending its sympathy to the many victims , some of whom may have suffered irreparable damage . |
| 2 | Some of them may have become bottom living , crawling hunters for which a gastropod-like shell would have been more appropriate . |
| 3 | Some people who comply well with all that is suggested to them may have done little more than comply ( incidentally , much of the " normal " first year of recovery is reckoned to be little more than compliance ) and think erroneously after a few weeks of treatment that they have learnt all they need to know and have done all they need to do to remain free from addictive disease . |
| 4 | Everything Fiona and Tremayne believed of me must have looked inevitable at that moment . |
| 5 | I may want to recognize this pattern as well as that pattern . |
| 6 | ‘ But I may have become blind to its charms . |
| 7 | I certainly do n't prefer the figurative though I may have lent this way at one time . |
| 8 | I may have seen many Garter Snakes on sale which I took to be pattern variations on the species most commonly available . |
| 9 | These are sort of a summary of them erm I may have missed one of the minor ones out . |
| 10 | We flew economy — I may have to make this trip regularly if Stanford accept me , and my insurance does n't cover me , so every penny counts . |
| 11 | Well research suggests that something like eighty eight percent , that 's research by Klaus and Bass , Klaus and Bass nineteen eighty-eight , actually I may have got that date wrong so I 'm not sure you should quote the date , anyway it 's Klaus and Bass . |
| 12 | As those visits covered a period of six months , I may have got some of the dialogue a little out of the exact chronological order , but by and large that was the sequence of events . |
| 13 | My period comes every month , so I think I may have caught some illness from my husband . |
| 14 | I may have mentioned one and that is that not satisfied with one deal a day |
| 15 | I may have put three in of those for one assignment . |
| 16 | But as I studied him any aggressive feelings I may have harboured evaporated quickly . |
| 17 | I hope that I may have encouraged some of my readers to use the garter carriage and next month I will be exploring stitch patterns and ways of combining these into interesting garments . |
| 18 | Someone should have said all this to him years ago . |
| 19 | ‘ When we started out , I must 've practised twelve hours a day for three months , spending hours working on an open string to get those eighth notes , and the triplets shuffle effect — talk about your hands being a bloody mess . |
| 20 | And all the time my cut thumb reminded me of what I must forget to stay sane ; all the time sick with worry about what 's happening to me so I have to keep ordering myself : Think about the invalid . |
| 21 | I have no right to be seen as a figurehead , I must continue to earn that . |
| 22 | But erm I must start reading those books as well . |
| 23 | ‘ People say I must regret joining United , but I 'm still pleased I came because working for Dave has been a great learning experience , ’ said Marwood . |
| 24 | Oh dear , oh dear , I must try to remember that one . ’ |
| 25 | and , I must have collected two hundred at most . |
| 26 | I must have waited several minutes , I should have known but I could n't bear the suspense . |
| 27 | ‘ I must have travelled all the way with Sparky in the engine . |
| 28 | And I must have turned faint , or something . |
| 29 | In those days I think I must have regarded many of the people dotted about my landscape more as bushes than as the human beings I now see them to have been : some dull and uninteresting like laurel bushes ; some like lavender sweetly scented ; some thorny , to be avoided ; and then rose bushes , gooseberry bushes , fuchsia bushes — but all just part of the scenery , and I withdrawn from them into my dreams . |
| 30 | Tom Jones had hit the scene wearing black horseshoe-necked , flared-leg catsuits — I must have made two dozen crimplene copies . |