Example sentences of "i [modal v] [verb] [vb pp] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No , the only thing I regret is that I may have rushed you into something you 're already beginning to repent . |
| 2 | ‘ I think I may have heard it as a bedtime story when I was a small child . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | I may have done it . |
| 5 | I may have sent it quicker over the goal line with this touch , but I think it would have reached it in any case . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ As a matter of fact , I think I may have seen it . ’ |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | I may have missed her coming out here . ’ |
| 10 | I may have lost it , and I am certainly not wandering around the palace looking for a glove ! ’ |
| 11 | A Celtic pantheon of gods whirled about my head , and I may have got them a bit mixed up here . |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | My lady wife behaved exceptionally badly , as I think I may have told you . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | He said , ‘ I may have mentioned I saw service in the desert … ’ |
| 16 | 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 ! ’ |
| 17 | Well I may have taken it because we |
| 18 | I would be more than thankful and hopeful that I may have helped him in return for the inspiration he has given me . |
| 19 | I may have deceived you . |
| 20 | Again , I think I may have underestimated it hearing it on Yuri Bashmet 's disc straight after his amazing performance of the Viola Concerto . |
| 21 | I may have reminded him of his wife or daughter . |
| 22 | ‘ There is a question I ought to have asked you before , Joe . ’ |
| 23 | Did I ask you most of the questions I ought to have asked you ? |
| 24 | Oh , then I ought to have done it last night . |
| 25 | I ought to have done it long ago . |
| 26 | I must say I 'm seeing a new side to you today , and I ought to have suspected it before . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | I ought to have stopped you in the beginning — I ought to have walloped you good and hard instead of hiding the things and pretending I did n't know anything about it . |
| 29 | I ought to have stopped you in the beginning — I ought to have walloped you good and hard instead of hiding the things and pretending I did n't know anything about it . |
| 30 | I was a fool ; I ought to have let it go at that , but I asked him why he did n't approve — and had a regular tirade ! |