Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] [verb] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Some of them may have become bottom living , crawling hunters for which a gastropod-like shell would have been more appropriate .
2 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 .
3 Everything Fiona and Tremayne believed of me must have looked inevitable at that moment .
4 I may want to recognize this pattern as well as that pattern .
5 ‘ But I may have become blind to its charms .
6 I certainly do n't prefer the figurative though I may have lent this way at one time .
7 I may have seen many Garter Snakes on sale which I took to be pattern variations on the species most commonly available .
8 These are sort of a summary of them erm I may have missed one of the minor ones out .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 My period comes every month , so I think I may have caught some illness from my husband .
13 I may have mentioned one and that is that not satisfied with one deal a day
14 I may have put three in of those for one assignment .
15 But as I studied him any aggressive feelings I may have harboured evaporated quickly .
16 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 .
17 He 's a thief , a criminal , he nicked my bag and I had to sift through every shit-bin in Bristol till I found my dreams and found out what I ought to 've known all along if you had n't …
18 ‘ I suppose I ought to have made more enquiries when I was inviting him — I mean , it would seem discourteous to ignore her , if she exists .
19 I ought to have found this out before , especially as I usually know everything that goes on in this village , but they 've managed to keep it secret .
20 ‘ 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 .
21 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 .
22 I have no right to be seen as a figurehead , I must continue to earn that .
23 But erm I must start reading those books as well .
24 ‘ 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 .
25 Oh dear , oh dear , I must try to remember that one . ’
26 and , I must have collected two hundred at most .
27 I must have waited several minutes , I should have known but I could n't bear the suspense .
28 I must have travelled all the way with Sparky in the engine .
29 And I must have turned faint , or something .
30 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 .
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