Example sentences of "i may [adv] have [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I may even have to sell the house in Ladbroke Grove to pay for the losses . ’ |
2 | I may even have said in the spirit of the joke that it had been one hundred and fifty-six whores , for all the world as though it was of an obsessive importance for the actual number to be known with absolute accuracy ! |
3 | I may even have redecorated the sitting room by then ! |
4 | I may also have dwelt too long on the years between 1690 and 1730 , but this was simply because it seems to be most people 's favourite period . |
5 | I may well have had holistic tendencies for I am both an artist and a writer , but all that was subconscious . |
6 | I may not have liked some of the things I saw and heard , but remember I was present from choice . |
7 | I may not have understood everything I heard at the time , but later it all slotted into place . |
8 | I may not have gone back to sleep but I lay awake grinning . |
9 | I have n't contacted the police — yet — and if you co-operate I may not have to trouble them . |
10 | I may have done , I may not have done . |
11 | I may not have seen the race , but I 've had enough people describe both the race and Jackie 's driving to know what a result it was . |
12 | erm I 'm conscious of the fact that I 've been going on for perhaps too long and I may not have said quite enough about Darwin , but let me just finish by saying this that it 's not possible today , I believe , to discuss any important problem in biology without Darwin 's thought being absolutely central to what you 're saying all the time . |
13 | Another Nottingham volunteer , Sue , said , ‘ I may not have lost a lot in pounds but it 's great to know I can lose inches from parts I did n't think I could ever reduce . ’ |
14 | At the end , I may not have looked much like her , but I felt like Brigitte Bardot . |
15 | Although I may not have got near to the ‘ God ’ of that particular place , those hundreds of hours spent in chapel were not wasted . |
16 | I may not have shown it too well so far … ’ |
17 | Depending on when you get this letter , I may already have married you . |
18 | Whatever roots I may once have had were cut off years ago when as a young man or old boy I left my father 's house to make my way in horrible competitive London . |
19 | I realise that , if I am accepted , once I have completed my degree I may often have to work for over 80 hours at a stretch during a weekend on call . |
20 | I think I may now have seen how to proceed in a paper I 'm writing at the moment on unconscious intention . |
21 | ‘ I may possibly have added a word or two . ’ |
22 | Oddly enough I may never have had an operational tour had it not been for one of these fellow travellers . |
23 | ‘ I may indeed have given her a guinea or two in a moment of late night extravagance . |