Example sentences of "i [vb mod] have [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is to say , I may have appeared calm , but inside anxiety raged . |
| 2 | I may have to use varnish stripper . |
| 3 | ‘ I may have said AZT in our interviews but that was a mistake , ’ he wrote . |
| 4 | ‘ But I hope not for two weeks — and then with any luck not on a Friday , or I may have to ask Doctor Masters to deputise for me . ’ |
| 5 | I 've got the finance I need and I may have found premises . ’ |
| 6 | Theodora said slowly , ‘ I think I may have known Mrs Marr . ’ |
| 7 | However , once our son arrives , I may have got things on an even keel and be able to take some time off . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I may have told Mrs Quatt that my position demands that I remain impartial , but one can not entirely prevent oneself from having human feelings and preferences ! ’ |
| 9 | And reaching 30 in a recession is a special problem in itself — I may have to tread water in my career for some years because there is no chink of promotion in my business . |
| 10 | Did I tell you I may have to have surgery ? |
| 11 | In my long journey I may have acquired illness and age , but I had gathered something too . |
| 12 | I ought to have asked Inspector Blakelock to ring . " |
| 13 | I ought to have taken heed of the warnings contained in those anonymous horoscopes , Lissa thought morosely , fingering the disks she had prepared for Adam . |
| 14 | I ought to have told Dad or someone . |
| 15 | As I say I ought to have had savvy enough , Edgeware Road , the first part of it , is purely commercial as you know , er er erm but I had n't realized that at the time . |
| 16 | I suppose I must have seen Christine Baldwin at Larksoken , probably in the canteen . |
| 17 | I must have seen De Mille 's Cleopatra a dozen times . |
| 18 | Then I must have lost consciousness . ’ |
| 19 | I must have startled Lord Hulton in mid fill because I heard a stifled " What … what … oh I say , how absolutely splendid ! " and a fragrant shower of tobacco cascaded from above . |
| 20 | I think I must have expressed dissatisfaction with the ‘ Poetry and Propaganda ’ article , because , like others that I had submitted to him up to that point , it was never to appear . |
| 21 | ‘ I must have met Mrs Marr at some point . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I think I must have left things a bit late ’ , was all he said . |
| 23 | This was just as well , because I must have looked pea green , and it did n't make me feel any better to watch Olive sitting up front chatting to the pilot and navigator , obviously having the time of her life . |
| 24 | I must have read Alison 's letter a dozen times that Monday , trying to decide what to do about it . |
| 25 | ‘ I must have taken leave of my senses ! ’ |
| 26 | Of the thousand-plus programmes I must have taken part in during those years I remember very little , and those mostly trivial things : Thor Heyerdahl the Norwegian explorer arriving half an hour late from Broadcasting House because the taxi driver sent to fetch him understood he had been told to pick up four airedales ( a reasonable enough request , he reckoned , from the BBC ) ; the maverick film director Ken Russell whacking Alexander Walker , the Evening Standard film critic , over the head with a copy of his own paper ; Norman St John Stevas , MP ( now Lord St John of Fawsley ) winking at a cameraman who had had the stars and stripes sewn on to the bottom of his jeans ; Enoch Powell 's eyes filling with tears when I asked if he was an emotional man ; A. J. P. Taylor on his seventy-fifth birthday admitting he had never been offered an honour and when I asked him which he would like if given the choice , his replying , ‘ A baronetcy , because it would make my elder son so dreadfully annoyed . ’ |
| 27 | And I cried , I must have cried Kate for two hours . |
| 28 | I must have wasted money on four or five that are hopeless . |
| 29 | How I must have bored Lou . |
| 30 | ‘ I should have said Zimbabwe , ’ said Lydia . |