Example sentences of "i [modal v] [verb] [vb pp] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I ought to have known I could n't be so lucky . |
| 32 | You will say I ought to have informed you I would not part with the boy in such circumstances as you had taken trouble to describe but until I saw the girl I was not sure in my own mind what to do and only made it up when confronted with her and not taking to her at all . |
| 33 | No doubt I ought to have told you it was a trick , but he had made the plan to stop you going to his flat . |
| 34 | Perhaps I ought to have told you before . |
| 35 | ‘ I 'm sorry , Christian , Tom and I ought to have discussed it with you . |
| 36 | I ought to have brought you a bit more up-to-date with the current situation as far as CVs are concerned here . |
| 37 | I was n't scared of him , he was only a skinny little thing ; I suppose I must 've loved him . |
| 38 | Then the weather got cold and I must 've realized it was nice havin' warm feet 'cos Mam said she never had no trouble with me after that . |
| 39 | And erm I got down on my hands and knees I must 've done it for an hour |
| 40 | I ai n't been to no doctor 's , well I 'm lying I had to go again , I had to like because I 've been getting these here bloody , I must 've had them ten or fifteen year or more and , cos I 'm on these here tablets now for the old stomach like , and that like . |
| 41 | I suppose that bearded bloke must 'ave dropped it , I suppose I must 'ave picked it up without thinking and that I went off with it in an absent-minded way . |
| 42 | I must have heard it , ’ he began , but she cut him short . |
| 43 | ‘ I 've swallowed — I must have swallowed him — ’ There was a bitter taste in her mouth , a dusty lumpy bitter taste of lemons and ashes dissolving , dissolving … |
| 44 | ‘ I must have given it them ? ’ |
| 45 | It was dark , by then , but they have them new electric lights there , so I must have seen him . |
| 46 | By definition I must have seen it with someone else , but the fact that , at the time , our own coupledom was predicted only by Nostradamus was irrelevant . |
| 47 | I suppose I must have touched him many times before , but not consciously or deliberately . |
| 48 | She asked me about him , and I must have said it was a boy , and he was resting . |
| 49 | I must have studied her with attention for I find that I can at this moment , however reluctantly , see her face before me as distinctly as though I was still sitting in that coffee bar with a quarter of an inch of the brown dregs left in my cup . |
| 50 | I assume I must have made it because when the noise of movement outside wakes me four hours later that is where I am . |
| 51 | The wolves were real enough , although there are times when I think I must have imagined them . |
| 52 | I must have imagined it . |
| 53 | I must have strained it or something playing with the kids . |
| 54 | So I must have wanted them , you see . |
| 55 | I must have killed him , Culley thought . |
| 56 | ‘ Lots of people say it must be easy for my family to carry on in music and that I must have taught them everything — but I feel they just inherited their love of music as it 's in our blood . ’ |
| 57 | Edna , blind since birth , said : ‘ I must have hit him at least 12 times . |
| 58 | I must have missed you , cos if I went past Britannia , and I thought ooh they 'll probably still be in there |
| 59 | I says what curling tongs , says you left curling tongs on , I 'd actually burnt my finger I must 've sleepwalked and I , I felt the bed when I remembered all this and it was dry so I must have sleepwalked it all and went to the toilet and done my hair cos there was a big burn all down my finger . |
| 60 | ‘ Well , I suppose I must have met her , then , if you say so , but somehow I ca n't remember anything about her . ’ |