Example sentences of "i [vb mod] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | This does n't mean that the others had no ‘ powers ’ , that they seemed to do little for me may have been my own lack of receptivity . |
| 2 | My main concern , however , on this throbbing morn , is to reassure any of my admirers whose opinion of me may have been diminished by David and Ted 's startling revelations concerning the use to which I have been known to put my sinuses . |
| 3 | as if someone like me should have sat there quietly like a mouse , demure and repressed ! |
| 4 | Everything Fiona and Tremayne believed of me must have looked inevitable at that moment . |
| 5 | Feeding me must have been painful , and perhaps therefore an unpleasant emotional experience . |
| 6 | He says me must have had his reasons . |
| 7 | Well it lukks as if I ll have tae mind wan thing when Ah meet your incomer pals , Isabel . |
| 8 | I can see that I may have a little difficulty explaining this first part of my story , especially to anyone not acquainted with the often bizarre rituals of academic life . |
| 9 | Do you consider that I may have committed a disciplinary offence ? |
| 10 | The sceptic might , at this point , complain that while I may have sketched out the functionalist position , I have not provided any convincing arguments as to why one should believe it . |
| 11 | The Japanese patenting of the Technics Class AA circuit was quite unknown to me , not having associated their advertisements for Class AA with anything I may have done until I read John Linsley Hood 's article in this journal for December 1989 . |
| 12 | I am all too ready to admit that I may have misunderstood what I have read in modern French theory ; the problem is in getting any minimal intellectual purchase on it at all . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I may have to go to a meeting . |
| 15 | I may have embarked on the impossible , ’ Lewis wrote to Sister Penelope on 9 November 1941 . |
| 16 | Did I tell you I may have to have surgery ? |
| 17 | I 've almost paid off the debt and soon I may have enough to put something aside for savings . |
| 18 | I would prefer not to have my guy stand up and say I may have been involved in an assassination . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 20 | I wo n't write a word more now , but go to my work , cool down , go out , and in the evening post this letter with proofs of my regret , though not recantation , and also proofs of some joy or success I may have this afternoon in fields now rejoicing in sunshine after rain , — to delight my own sweet little one , too tolerant , too childishly submissive , not by nature , which would be weak , but by love for me , which is strength . |
| 21 | Sore eyes I may have , but at least I am not blind and can still darn my own stockings . |
| 22 | Or was it just another side of his character I had not seen before , but that I may have suspected was always there ? |
| 23 | I behaved with great dignity and showed none of the resentment I may have felt . |
| 24 | I may have a problem , but that is a very different matter . |
| 25 | I may have reindeer antlers but I do n't have Santa Claws ! |
| 26 | A Celtic pantheon of gods whirled about my head , and I may have got them a bit mixed up here . |
| 27 | In my blunderings around Enniskillen , I may have inadvertently done some harm , as foreigners do in Communist lands by innocently befriending natives who are then shadowed by the secret police and later imprisoned or shot . |
| 28 | As I seek after truth , so shall I always be glad to receive any information from my friends , even if they should contradict what I may have published , yet I shall never think it derogatory to my character to own my mistakes , and rectify them . |
| 29 | I may have been approaching it from the wrong angle . |
| 30 | It 's been an odd kind of fulfilment ; and it has quite knocked on the head all the priggish ideas I may have had , and given me a sense of values . |