Example sentences of "i [modal v] have tell [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I may have to tell him , though . ’ |
| 2 | Please , above all , remember that I do n't know everything ( though I 'm working on it ! ) — I may have to tell you I ca n't help you rather than pretending otherwise and confusing you . |
| 3 | My lady wife behaved exceptionally badly , as I think I may have told you . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Perhaps I ought to have told you before . |
| 6 | But I suppose I must have told them how things were between me and Richard because as I lay on my bed , in my old room , I heard Aunt Lilian telephoning . |
| 7 | I I must have told you before that what we got er we used to turn and bundle two thousand four hundred , I told you that did n't I ? |
| 8 | Well , th I I must have told you because it 's one of the things that er stand out that on on the day when they dropped the first bomb in I and I I and it was er it 'd be the thirty first of January , but I do n't know whether it was er fifteen or sixteen , nineteen fifteen or nineteen sixteen . |
| 9 | ‘ It ca n't be ; I must have told you many times before this . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I should 've told you before . ’ |
| 11 | Now I realize I should have told her , should have explained , talked it out with her , but it 's easy to be clever afterwards . |
| 12 | Perhaps I should have told her to concentrate on school . ’ |
| 13 | She thought : I should have told him . |
| 14 | I should have told him to go to hell . |
| 15 | And I should have told him , if you 've any complaints , come to the branch meeting and make your complaints there . |
| 16 | The hospital had a flower shop inside its main entrance and I subbed Fenella a tenner to get a decent bunch of flowers ( I knew I should have told them about their pot plant ) while I tried to chat up the nurse on reception . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's what I should have told her last night , when she sent me after you . ’ |
| 18 | I should have told you earlier but it must have slipped the old mind . ’ |
| 19 | I 'm sorry if I should have told you before . ’ |
| 20 | I 've something I must tell you , something I should have told you before . |
| 21 | I know I should have told you but … ’ he trailed off with a shrug and stared dejectedly at his feet . |
| 22 | I know I should have told you earlier but I reasoned that if I did you would n't want me along ; and you needed a guide . |
| 23 | I should have told you , the night I met you on Starr Hills ; but I 'd only that day realized and I was afraid who might be listening . |
| 24 | I should have told you at the beginning . |
| 25 | I should have told you days ago . ’ |
| 26 | I should have told you , should n't I ? |
| 27 | ‘ I should have told you , ’ he said . |
| 28 | I should have told you myself , but somehow the opportunity was never there . ’ |
| 29 | I should have told you we go up to kill men and not pop balloons ? |
| 30 | I should have told you the Huns have balloons the way you have the runs , but they are short of skilled observers ? |