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Example sentences of "i [modal v] have [verb] it " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	‘ I think I may have heard it as a bedtime story when I was a small child . ’
2	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 . ’
3	I may have done it .
4	But I think I may have to extend it — just like the politicians — because I have n't achieved anything in all the time I have been in my new home .
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	‘ As a matter of fact , I think I may have seen it . ’
7	To Giles I 'm a ‘ Jeremiah ’ who should be capable of ‘ an act of faith ’ — act of lunacy , more like ; to Hans Haenlein and others I 've got incredibly deep pockets ; to Peter Davey , for whom I voted and who is now so far removed from ‘ the cultural gangsters ’ as to be a cultural kamikaze pilot , I need ‘ a heroic proposal ’ ; to Mervyn Miller I should n't ‘ surrender my birthright ’ — but I may have to sell it .
8	I may have lost it , and I am certainly not wandering around the palace looking for a glove ! ’
9	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 ?
10	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 . ’
11	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 ! ’
12	Well I may have taken it because we
13	Again , I think I may have underestimated it hearing it on Yuri Bashmet 's disc straight after his amazing performance of the Viola Concerto .
14	Oh , then I ought to have done it last night .
15	I ought to have done it long ago .
16	I must say I 'm seeing a new side to you today , and I ought to have suspected it before .
17	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 .
18	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 !
19	‘ I 'm sorry , Christian , Tom and I ought to have discussed it with you .
20	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 .
21	And erm I got down on my hands and knees I must 've done it for an hour
22	I must have heard it , ’ he began , but she cut him short .
23	‘ I must have given it them ? ’
24	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 .
25	She asked me about him , and I must have said it was a boy , and he was resting .
26	I assume I must have made it because when the noise of movement outside wakes me four hours later that is where I am .
27	I must have imagined it .
28	I must have strained it or something playing with the kids .
29	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 .
30	This is an avouching which is ( a ) about the past , and ( b ) not based on evidence ( as would be the sentence ‘ I must have emptied it yesterday ’ uttered on finding it empty ) .