Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] have [vb pp] 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 could have stayed an interesting union , but the Healey stayed a Healey and the Cobra was an AC . |
| 10 | I wish someone had told me he was vegetarian : I could have made an omelette . |
| 11 | Go to bed wishing I could have bestowed an extra twenty years ' active life upon Bunuel and Jane Austen . |
| 12 | For the paying customers — you and me — I 'd have thought an auditors ' report claiming ‘ mismanagement and excessive expenditure ’ was a pretty good start . |
| 13 | 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 ) |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I I would have made an oasis , and I would have er tried to achieve a better settlement |
| 16 | At the beginning of the season I would have had an each-way bet each on Llanelli and Neath to win the title , but you all know what has happened to Neath . |
| 17 | ‘ You thought I would have had an abortion ? ’ |
| 18 | Ordinarily , I would have chosen an empty table . |
| 19 | I would have needed an air traffic control centre to keep track of where everyone was at any given moment . |
| 20 | ‘ I can hardly believe , ’ he found himself saying , ‘ that someone like me could have become an … er … |
| 21 | ‘ She ought to have bought an ordinary ticket and donated the rest to the pension fund . |
| 22 | For remarkably little effort , you may have saved an endangered building . |
| 23 | But precisely in that act of consignment you may have committed an unconscious iconoclasm — for each of the above-mentioned artists at one time or another personally designed his own exhibition announcement . |
| 24 | You may have cancelled an appointment , disappointing your friend , who now complains loudly and aggressively that you are an uncaring suit-yourself sort , whose commitment to friendship is purely selfish . |
| 25 | She may have become an international superstar , wined and dined with kings and presidents , prima ballerinas , film idols , pop legends and sporting heroes ; she may be ferried around in motorcades and private yachts and planes ; and she may be given priceless jewels to wear . |
| 26 | Certainly she was desperately trying to raise money , and one John Crosse , with whom she may have had an affair , was involved . |
| 27 | She was probably prepared to trust the cardinal archbishop when he undertook to guarantee her son 's safety and , even if she had doubts , she may have preferred an arrangement involving Bourgchier to the risk of forcing Gloucester into unilateral action . |
| 28 | She was probably prepared to trust the cardinal archbishop when he undertook to guarantee her son 's safety and , even if she had doubts , she may have preferred an arrangement involving Bourgchier to the risk of forcing Gloucester into unilateral action . |
| 29 | You must 've got an extra sheet than me because one of the things I was moaning about this morning erm , maybe you 've got a different |
| 30 | You must have cared an awful lot about her to deliberately stay away from London because of her . |