Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [adv] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adoption should not be underestimated as a potential problem , and Howe ( 1990 ) estimated that there are approximately 600,000 relinquishing mothers in the UK — many of whom may not have come to terms with their loss . |
| 2 | We know that many of them may well have undergone long and arduous journeys , having travelled many miles across many frontiers and indeed possibly even across many continents just in order to be with us here tonight . |
| 3 | As a consequence the dinosaurs that preyed on them must also have grown bigger . |
| 4 | I was more of an outsider than ever , but something in me must still have wanted to belong to the family because I was still making deliberate attempts to communicate with the other members . |
| 5 | ‘ I may even have to sell the house in Ladbroke Grove to pay for the losses . ’ |
| 6 | I may even have said in the spirit of the joke that it had been one hundred and fifty-six whores , for all the world as though it was of an obsessive importance for the actual number to be known with absolute accuracy ! |
| 7 | I may even have redecorated the sitting room by then ! |
| 8 | I may also have dwelt too long on the years between 1690 and 1730 , but this was simply because it seems to be most people 's favourite period . |
| 9 | I may well have had holistic tendencies for I am both an artist and a writer , but all that was subconscious . |
| 10 | I may not have liked some of the things I saw and heard , but remember I was present from choice . |
| 11 | I may not have understood everything I heard at the time , but later it all slotted into place . |
| 12 | I may not have gone back to sleep but I lay awake grinning . |
| 13 | I have n't contacted the police — yet — and if you co-operate I may not have to trouble them . |
| 14 | I may have done , I may not have done . |
| 15 | I may not have seen the race , but I 've had enough people describe both the race and Jackie 's driving to know what a result it was . |
| 16 | erm I 'm conscious of the fact that I 've been going on for perhaps too long and I may not have said quite enough about Darwin , but let me just finish by saying this that it 's not possible today , I believe , to discuss any important problem in biology without Darwin 's thought being absolutely central to what you 're saying all the time . |
| 17 | Another Nottingham volunteer , Sue , said , ‘ I may not have lost a lot in pounds but it 's great to know I can lose inches from parts I did n't think I could ever reduce . ’ |
| 18 | At the end , I may not have looked much like her , but I felt like Brigitte Bardot . |
| 19 | Although I may not have got near to the ‘ God ’ of that particular place , those hundreds of hours spent in chapel were not wasted . |
| 20 | I may not have shown it too well so far … ’ |
| 21 | Depending on when you get this letter , I may already have married you . |
| 22 | Whatever roots I may once have had were cut off years ago when as a young man or old boy I left my father 's house to make my way in horrible competitive London . |
| 23 | I realise that , if I am accepted , once I have completed my degree I may often have to work for over 80 hours at a stretch during a weekend on call . |
| 24 | I think I may now have seen how to proceed in a paper I 'm writing at the moment on unconscious intention . |
| 25 | ‘ I may possibly have added a word or two . ’ |
| 26 | Oddly enough I may never have had an operational tour had it not been for one of these fellow travellers . |
| 27 | ‘ I may indeed have given her a guinea or two in a moment of late night extravagance . |
| 28 | I ought not to have done that . |
| 29 | He said , ‘ I ought not to have tricked you like that . |
| 30 | She had at times , almost as if it were a comfort , at least something accustomed , run through the fruitless litany of remorse : I ought not to have tolerated his infidelities , I ought to have stopped it at the start , I have colluded with his depravity , it is all my fault . |