Example sentences of "you [modal v] have [vb pp] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may have made a genuine mistake or misrepresented a situation . |
| 2 | You may have noticed the happy ending came rather pat . |
| 3 | For remarkably little effort , you may have saved an endangered building . |
| 4 | You may have done a good job on your own patch but you can not clear the entire neighbourhood . |
| 5 | You may have heard the horrific tale of the small boy who was painted from head to toe with a metallic-based substance for a carnival and who consequently died of respiratory failure . |
| 6 | I think you may have met the medical student last spring ? |
| 7 | Now , if you were out and about at about ten o'clock last night you may have seen a greenish glow in the sky . |
| 8 | You may have seen the fluorescent stars and space ships that children stick on their bedroom ceiling that then glow in the dark . |
| 9 | Make contact with the so-called " special clinic " ( department of genito-urinary medicine ) at your local hospital if you have any reason whatever to suspect that you may have contracted a venereal disease . |
| 10 | ‘ You may have got the wrong number , dear , but it 's a stroke of luck for you … and for your baby . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | You may have drawn the two figures on page 109 before . |
| 13 | But if you are a strongly goal-orientated individual who enjoys solitary intellectual pursuits , you may have found the perfect job . |
| 14 | You ought to have seen the old girl ! |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | Looking back on that then , you must have lost a great number of colleagues and workmates that it must give you sort of mixed feelings looking back on it ? |
| 17 | You must have cared an awful lot about her to deliberately stay away from London because of her . |
| 18 | Lucy Lane interrupted , authority in her voice : ‘ Before we move on , others of you must have seen the safe open from time to time ; it would be useful if we could establish how long the books have been there . ’ |
| 19 | Now , on the Sunday she died , Lady Eleanor abruptly broke with custom , refusing to go to Compline , and someone as alert as you must have seen the secret preparations she had made . ’ |
| 20 | You must have heard the old story about the bucket of water ; when it was shown to the optimist he described it as being ‘ half full ’ while the pessimist said that it was ‘ half empty ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ You must have had a hard month of it , ’ she said . |
| 22 | Moving on , erm in te you know obviously you must have had a fair amount of c you said you had a fair amount of contact with erm tenants in the flats . |
| 23 | ‘ You must have had a full life ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ It seems to me , ’ shrewdly , ‘ you must have had an unfortunate relationship to make you so prejudiced . |
| 25 | The other thing they say , if they 're Terrans , or actually , especially if they 're not , is , Well , you must have spent a good deal of time on Good Old Mother Earth . |
| 26 | ‘ You must have got a few in the Houses of Parliament , ’ he said , smiling . |
| 27 | You should 've heard the different birds . |
| 28 | You should have discovered the following facts . |
| 29 | unc After you have studied the see-saw problems you should have discovered an important rule about how to keep an equation in balance . |
| 30 | 4. ( a ) On MacDonald 's character you should have indicated the telling phrase " characteristic self-pity " and indicated the implications of the penultimate paragraph . |