Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] have [verb] [indef pn] " in BNC.

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1 Thus I might say to someone " Let's go and find out which is the oldest tree in the park " , without fearing that I may have said something unintelligible just because neither of us is certain what the outcome of our search will be .
2 Well I may have missed something you 've said , but I have n't heard you say fifteen years before .
3 Er , once again I may have missed something in 's report and perhaps last year 's budget , a new member of staff is going to be .
4 Who knows , perhaps one day I may have to play one . ’
5 So yeah erm so erm tt er yeah so oh that reminds me I think I may have left something in the lecture theatre I was in this morning , oh my God it was a letter from somebody yes I have , oh shit !
6 Someone may have noticed something .
7 Someone may have spotted something .
8 I must 've spilt summat or maybe I trod in a puddle cos my trousers are all wet and cold .
9 I must have said something about being in reasonably , good health despite a rather dismal daily round of commuting to Charing Cross and a crawl by bus up the King 's Road to the appropriately named World 's End pub , but that I was more tormented at that time with a clash of affections with two young ladies .
10 I said to your mum I have n't got I must have cut something and I 'm pshht the blood went everywhere all
11 That made me feel I must have done something to deserve this .
12 I must have done something stupid which caused a jam and I turned the knob to ‘ Carriage Release ’ and removed the carriage .
13 All I know , like the protestors when the Julian became the Gregorian calendar , is that I must have missed something .
14 I must have missed something in the council tax .
15 It was also the year in which I discovered both sex and death , so I must have learned something , in spite of not going to school .
16 And as for being six pound up , she says I must have short-changed someone .
17 ‘ Of course I should 've done something , think I do n't know it ?
18 I should 've learnt everything by the time I was thirty , not wait until I was in me forties .
19 I should have said something
20 Before I go to sleep I wonder about whether I should have said anything to him about Mr Archer and his phone calls and Ares .
21 I do n't think I should have risked anything quite so rakish .
22 I felt as though I should have done something . ’
23 I should have confessed everything , as I do now , and appealed to your great generosity of spirit .
24 And at that point I should have endured anything to prevent such a theft .
25 I should have guessed something like this would happen . ’
26 I should have thought anyone with a grain of sensitivity would realise how painful it is for all of us to have this all raked up again .
27 Perhaps I should have deduced something immediately from that coincidence .
28 I should have known nothing could break them . ’
29 Damn you , Crevecoeur — I should have known something like this would happen !
30 I suppose I should have known something like this would happen . ’
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