Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] have [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In theory , the shareholders have legal control of the company , but in practice this is most often exercised by the directors who between them may have a small minority of the shares with the acquiescence of the institutions which are the major shareholders . |
| 2 | If I live , I may have a crooked back like my father , but I 'll probably die . ’ |
| 3 | I can see that I may have a little difficulty explaining this first part of my story , especially to anyone not acquainted with the often bizarre rituals of academic life . |
| 4 | Sir , If you please to send me a scarlet Cardinal [ a short red cloak ] , and let it be full yard long , and rather longer than a yard long , and let it be full , for it be for a large Woman , they tell me I may have a long one , and a handsome one , for 11s but I shou 'd not be willing to give more than 12s , but if you have any as long as that , either duffil or cloth , if it is cheaper , I shou 'd like it as well as , for I am not to give but 12s for it . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm sorry , I think I may have a wrong number , ’ it said . |
| 6 | I must have a good game against him . ’ |
| 7 | So okay I have n't seen I must have a tiny little book . |
| 8 | ( I 've done dozens of lectures now , in front of all sorts of people , and I always make it up as I go along , although I suppose I must have a rough idea about what I 'm going to say . ) |
| 9 | But then I must have a cold shower . |
| 10 | Why wo n't I admit that I must have the shortest arms in the world ? |
| 11 | 121 , as to which Parke B. , in Cooper v. Parker ( 1855 ) 15 C.B. 828 , said , ‘ Whenever the question may arise as to whether Down v. Hatcher is good law , I should have a great deal to say against it , ’ yet there certainly are cases in which great judges have treated the dictum in Pinnel 's Case as good law . |
| 12 | She asked me to a cocktail-party to which I did n't want to go , so I said I had a cold which was n't true at the time but knowing my chest I guessed that I should have a bronchial cough at any moment and so I did . |
| 13 | ‘ Oh , you think I should have a kept woman like Ma — not very modern , that . |
| 14 | It was Li Chao who first suggested I should have a Chinese name and I was both grateful and honoured when in the course of time he gave me the three-character name of Tdong Lao Fu which meant , literally , ‘ Portrait of Happy Man Climbing Mountain ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ You and I should have a little chat . ’ |
| 16 | But I certainly did n't think , as I went into the trees , that I should have the apparent answer within another hundred yards . |
| 17 | Which means I should have the last one does n't it ? |
| 18 | Just the first kit , yes I shall probably do that there put it in without an envelope looks like there might , I might have so an odd I got some more of the envelopes at home I might have a small one , but er |
| 19 | And I might have a thousand stashed away that I did n't know about ? |
| 20 | Went back yesterday , tomorrow I 'll carry on , Thursday I might have a lay in |
| 21 | He thinks perhaps I might have a few days away from here . |
| 22 | I might have a sweet actually . |
| 23 | And I might have a little bit . |
| 24 | so I might have the three pound first week had erm |
| 25 | Er , er sorry , I think I might have the wrong number . |
| 26 | Peter Cole , chairman of Bramshill Parish Council , in whose bailiwick the town would have fallen , said : ‘ I might have an extra beer today , but I am saving the champagne for another 21 days . |
| 27 | Perhaps he thought I might have an interesting story to tell . |
| 28 | If things do n't get better soon , I 'll have a nervous breakdown or divorce my husband . |
| 29 | I 'll have a better stomach for it then . ’ |
| 30 | I 'll have a better idea when I can see the background . |