Example sentences of "i [modal v] have be [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I would prefer not to have my guy stand up and say I may have been involved in an assassination . ’
2 I may have been absent or something .
3 I may have been over-enthusiastic .
4 I may have been wrong proportionately as many times as the result of an amniocentesis turns out to have been wrong : that is , being wrong in both cases amounts to a hypothetical possibility , but is not normal .
5 ‘ Look , I may have been angry when I found out but … ’
6 I 'll admit I may have been naïve … ’
7 Towards the end of his life he told Osbert Sitwell ; ‘ Any talent I may have was due to a long illness as a boy , which afforded me time to think , and subsequent ill-health , because I was not allowed to play games , and so had to teach myself , for my enjoyment , to use my eyes instead of my feet . ’
8 I must have been asleep .
9 When he returned with the blankets I must have been asleep .
10 ‘ Dear me , I must have been asleep for …
11 If he did I must have been asleep .
12 I think maybe I must have been Spanish in some former life — I feel as though I 've come home . ’
13 I must have been tired , she said to herself reasonably .
14 I must have been desperate !
15 As I can remember very little about the rest of the day I presume that I must have been unconscious most of the time .
16 I must have been unconscious for hours .
17 I must have been unconscious a long time .
18 ‘ Idiot that I was , I was crass enough to insist , since I could n't see her privately ; to push her into a corner and tell her … tell her — oh , lord , I must have been mental ! — that if I could n't see her privately I would n't see her ever again . ’
19 I must have been half-mad .
20 I tried to stare my dislike into him but I must have been unsuccessful for he merely said with a primitive accent : ‘ Good in auto , yes ? ’ and grinned .
21 I must have been jealous of her life away from me , and wished to have her entirely to myself .
22 I must have been wrong I suppose .
23 " I think I must have been mad , " said Mrs Denham , taking off the tea pot lid and staring nervously into its smoky silver depths .
24 I must have been mad to kill him !
25 I must have been mad on the strength of one fish , going all out boilies but it was a double and I just had a feeling this was how the better fish might fall .
26 I must have been mad for a few hours , and I swept you up in it too .
27 Her face flaming , Luce muttered , ‘ I must have been mad to let you seduce me . ’
28 I guess I must have been frightened but it all happened so quickly .
29 Looking back on it , I 've decided I must have been clear round the bend !
30 I must have been crackers even to think it ! ’
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