Example sentences of "i [modal v] have [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had seventy at the beginning of last year , I think I may have said on the phone , a hundred a sixty five right now . |
| 2 | ( I may have gone through the verbal motions once or twice , but that 's all . ) |
| 3 | My phone number is not the one listed on this article as I may have moved to a new address by the time you read this . |
| 4 | ‘ I may have to go to a meeting . |
| 5 | ‘ I may have to go to France , ’ she managed hastily , not really meaning it but feeling the need to assert herself . |
| 6 | Oh I think I may have to go to the toilet before I go home . |
| 7 | it would have been a matter that I may have raised at our board meeting , again , again , that would have been passed on |
| 8 | ‘ I may have felt like throttling him , ’ snarled Samuel , ‘ but it was n't me threatening to kill him . |
| 9 | Therefore my skills have not been utilized to the full and I may have fallen behind my UK counterparts . |
| 10 | I have come to the conclusion that I may have to stick to one particular make for the right size . |
| 11 | I think I may have come across Mrs Marr , Amy , in one of them . ’ |
| 12 | I may have embarked on the impossible , ’ Lewis wrote to Sister Penelope on 9 November 1941 . |
| 13 | I may he may I may have died in the end but still , you know he wanted to keep the peace and wanted to be his friend . |
| 14 | Paul Gascoigne is also troubled by a cold , but he trained yesterday afternoon and , apart from Platt , it is only Batty and Dixon who are real concerns , and Taylor added : ‘ I know I may have to look at bringing another right-back and a midfielder , but I am keeping my fingers crossed about Dixon because there are no other right-backs around at the moment . ’ |
| 15 | Any romanticised impressions I may have had of the East End were quickly tempered if not dispelled by the striking images of endemic poverty and a sclerotic political culture . |
| 16 | Any thought I may have had about finding the nest for Crispin 's camera left me then . |
| 17 | ‘ I may have lusted after my brother 's wife , ’ he muttered , ‘ but not his life ! ’ |
| 18 | This way if anybody asks I may have talked to an agent from British Security . |
| 19 | Anyway , whatever I may have thought about his methods of bringing it about , I 'll always be grateful to him for my wife ! ’ |
| 20 | I ought to have gone to Markham cum Cumbermound to see the PCC vice-chairman . |
| 21 | I felt I ought to have gone in earlier ; that now I had put him in a huff . |
| 22 | I ought to have guessed from the smell , but it was new to me . " |
| 23 | I ought to have explained in my letter — as is made clear in my book — that the case studies are those of pathologically disturbed men ( and some women ) ; people locked away in asylums or prisons , or who have paid for their vile perversions with their lives . |
| 24 | ‘ I suppose I ought to have thought of that . |
| 25 | Bill thought I 'd died on him the other night cos I was , you know , me breathing and everything , and then all of a sudden I must 've relaxed for a bit and not needed to breathe and he give me a shock he says God I thought you were dead . |
| 26 | Say no I 'm alright and I must 've lifted my head , all I could hear was this old scraggy voice like a witch , ah serve the fucking bastard right , the fucking honest to fuck , so I must 've sat for another half an hour and I knew I had to go that way to get home . |
| 27 | Films like dreams come and go and are soon forgotten , yet King Kong , which I must have seen in 1933 , or early 1934 , with its scenes of adventure in a fabled land , was the one to overwhelm my mind and stay with me to the present day . |
| 28 | I must have touched on a sensitive spot . ’ |
| 29 | I do n't know , I always said I 'd never took the piss out of these children , but I 'm sure I must have done at school , but I must admit I was embarrassed . |
| 30 | I must have moved towards her as she took half a step back . |