Example sentences of "i [modal v] [verb] [vb pp] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says me must have had his reasons . |
| 2 | ‘ No , the only thing I regret is that I may have rushed you into something you 're already beginning to repent . |
| 3 | Like a politician I may have overstated my case to make my point . |
| 4 | ‘ I think I may have heard it as a bedtime story when I was a small child . ’ |
| 5 | Interviewed last year , Gagosian responded to the accusation that he had made transparencies of paintings reproduced in art magazines and offered them for sale as ‘ a scurrilous charge ’ — but he went on to admit ‘ Well , I may have done it once . ’ |
| 6 | I may have done it . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I may have sent it quicker over the goal line with this touch , but I think it would have reached it in any case . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Also , I may have given him the impression , with the urgency of youth possessed of strong convictions , that I wanted at all costs to have something published on this subject . |
| 11 | ‘ As a matter of fact , I think I may have seen it . ’ |
| 12 | I am all too ready to admit that I may have misunderstood what I have read in modern French theory ; the problem is in getting any minimal intellectual purchase on it at all . |
| 13 | They did n't give any details about the Leeds match ( or I may have missed them as I was simultaneously talking on the phone ) . |
| 14 | I may have missed her coming out here . ’ |
| 15 | Well I may have missed something you 've said , but I have n't heard you say fifteen years before . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I may have poured myself into my books , my home , my garden and my animals , but the loving feeling I have for them is not the same as a loving relationship , which goes beyond feeling into action and commitment . |
| 18 | I may have lost it , and I am certainly not wandering around the palace looking for a glove ! ’ |
| 19 | Spitting Image creator Roger Law joked : ‘ I think I may have lost my OBE over this . ’ |
| 20 | I fear that , through momentary inattention , or a moralistic rejection of the evidence , I may have wasted your valuable time . ’ |
| 21 | A Celtic pantheon of gods whirled about my head , and I may have got them a bit mixed up here . |
| 22 | Sorry , just one other point on W O P there , I may have got it wrong , did you say earlier on that er , that if you get H I V , so the W O P benefit is n't payable , what about the al , did we say the allocation of W O P will still continue ? |
| 23 | My lady wife behaved exceptionally badly , as I think I may have told you . |
| 24 | As far as I remember he nodded in his own particularly grave yet twinkling way and that was that , I may have mentioned it again , in which case he said very little more than , ‘ We 've already discussed it . ’ |
| 25 | He said , ‘ I may have mentioned I saw service in the desert … ’ |
| 26 | It conditioned my hair really well but I think I may have used it too often because my hair became a little TOO soft to style after a while ! ’ |
| 27 | Well I may have taken it because we |
| 28 | I would be more than thankful and hopeful that I may have helped him in return for the inspiration he has given me . |
| 29 | I may have deceived you . |
| 30 | Again , I think I may have underestimated it hearing it on Yuri Bashmet 's disc straight after his amazing performance of the Viola Concerto . |