Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] [verb] [verb] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | I may have made an unconscious movement towards him because he gave me a last malevolent grin and disappeared into the crowd . |
| 2 | I must have made an impression ! ’ |
| 3 | Then she slumped back in her chair , mouthing the nicotine-dosed chewing gum she used instead of cigarettes , and I thought I must have imagined an intensity of which she was surely incapable . |
| 4 | She said she was sure I must have missed an English Christmas abroad all these years . |
| 5 | I took their advice , but I must have had an inclination towards food to have ended up as I have . |
| 6 | That I should have had an abortion or given it away . |
| 7 | I might have made an angry reply about her own flaunting of herself at the male Ardakkean , but there was nothing to be gained by it . |
| 8 | Anyway , I got through this tricky interval , and even the sea co-operated for once , coming in just after the explosion and sweeping away any tell-tale tracks I might have left an hour or more before Diggs arrived from the village to inspect the scene . |
| 9 | ’ I 'll need to keep an eye on the time , ’ he said . |
| 10 | So the council informed Seth if I do n't move in a month I 'll have to put an application in |
| 11 | Of course , I 'll have to do an internship first , then a stint as a registrar before I can even think of looking around for a practice of my own . ’ |
| 12 | Well then I 'll have to get an extension . |
| 13 | I 'll have to have an abortion . ’ |
| 14 | I 'll have to keep an eye on you . |
| 15 | I could have stayed an interesting union , but the Healey stayed a Healey and the Cobra was an AC . |
| 16 | I wish someone had told me he was vegetarian : I could have made an omelette . |
| 17 | Go to bed wishing I could have bestowed an extra twenty years ' active life upon Bunuel and Jane Austen . |
| 18 | I 'd have to buy an electric boiler to replace the gas one which had been leaking for a week now . |
| 19 | For the paying customers — you and me — I 'd have thought an auditors ' report claiming ‘ mismanagement and excessive expenditure ’ was a pretty good start . |
| 20 | I 'd have thought an organisation like Amnesty would be in the forefront of anti-sexism , but I 've come across sexism before where I would expect an enlightened attitude ( eg Greenpeace ) |
| 21 | If it had n't been a yorker I 'd have looked an absolute idiot , I would n't have been in the same street , let alone cricket ground . |
| 22 | Although we might be prepared outside our normal scheme to fund the current year 's training for such people on the understanding that future funding will not be available , so in other words if somebody comes along to you and says , I 'd like to do an M B A , beginning this year , now normally we we would say , yes , we will contribute our half to that cost , er and that would then be a high priority on our budget to provide continued support for the rest of that M B A course , we 're now saying that that the answer is actually no , because we can not provide support next year , we do n't think , er but if you never the less want to go ahead this year and then fund it yourself from then on , then we we have actually got money available which we can use this year . |
| 23 | To shed light on these questions , I 'd like to take an example from the fairly recent past , considering the factors which one ( unnamed ) Education Committee took into account in discussing the closure of a one-teacher school which I |
| 24 | Like — I 'd like to see an advert with a really big woman trying on a pair of jeans . |
| 25 | I 'd like to organise an anti-drugs campaign . ’ |
| 26 | Erm , I 'd like to know an update if possible on the Branch Secretary 's erm restructuring . |
| 27 | Oh I 'd like to make an appointment to see Doctor please . |
| 28 | We have this French woman come in she comes quite often Mrs and she said I 'd like to make an appointme appointment on the she said the eleventh , and I thought I said pardon ? |
| 29 | ‘ And I 'd like to get an idea of the raw materials I can use — press cuttings and so on . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I 'd like to get an early night , so I 'll just grab a sandwich back at the hotel . ’ |