Example sentences of "i [modal v] have [vb pp] [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like a politician I may have overstated my case to make my point . |
| 2 | However , I can only look at most of the styles you feature with envy as I have been very silly and think I may have damaged my hair forever . |
| 3 | Spitting Image creator Roger Law joked : ‘ I think I may have lost my OBE over this . ’ |
| 4 | I was not given her name — that came from my mother and her mother — but I think I must have inherited her resilience , which my father has too . |
| 5 | I must have kept my end up successfully , though , for just before he left Dennis sought me out and invited me to dinner the following Friday . |
| 6 | I must have brushed my back against her breasts , but then the touch of her was over and she shouted , ‘ How about lunch ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Sorry , I must have lost my place in the script . |
| 8 | I must have left my door open , and I 'm usually so careful . |
| 9 | Not many houses in I must have passed his house when I was up there . |
| 10 | I must have misread your letter somehow . ’ |
| 11 | At any rate , I must have dropped my car keys quite without knowing it . |
| 12 | I think I must have had my weight to the front of the bike , you know , coming up on the braking . |
| 13 | ‘ I should have worn my welly boots , ’ his sister Claire says to herself . |
| 14 | I 've told him you think I should have called my son — what is it ? ’ |
| 15 | Now she thinks , not his cock but his tongue , I should have cut his tongue out with them , his slow quicksilver tongue ; for he partly took me backwards out of my joy , into an old timidity that 's there still ; and it 's made a meal of me sometimes teaching , when the sharper ones have had me squirming for my lazy luck . |
| 16 | There are some instructions I should have given my secretary . ’ |
| 17 | I am almost glad I was not there , lest I should have spoiled your tranquillity . |
| 18 | I should have kept my temper , she thought frantically ; I should never have tried to push him into the stream in the first place . |
| 19 | I should have kept my mouth shut because he manoeuvred his machine until it was touching my midriff . |
| 20 | I should have kept my silence , for the only purpose my words served was to demonstrate my disbelief in Billingsley 's outrageous explanation . |
| 21 | The nineteenth-century physiologist , physicist and psychologist , von Helmholtz , who contributed substantially to every discipline that he engaged in , described the process thus : It was always necessary , first of all , that I should have turned my problem over on all sides to such an extent that I had all its angles and complexities " in my head " and could run through them freely without writing … |
| 22 | I should have checked her suit again . |
| 23 | If I were reasonably satisfied that , other things being equal , substantially fewer persons would be murdered if the death penalty were available than if it were not , I should have opposed its abolition and would support its restoration . |
| 24 | Yes alright Oh I should have bought my work with me , my stump work with me to show you . |
| 25 | ‘ I should have thought my meaning was clear enough , even to the most limited intelligence . |
| 26 | ‘ I should have thought your time would be better spent studying the common people . |
| 27 | ‘ I should have taken her home sooner , ’ Frere was saying . |
| 28 | ‘ I should have taken her milk in , ’ she said . |
| 29 | D' ya know what I should have had your certificate today ? |
| 30 | ‘ They told me that I should have put my whip down and tried to stop my horse from hanging . ’ |