Example sentences of "[that] i [modal v] have [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Dear lady , dear lady , to think that I might have lived my whole life through and never seen you . |
| 2 | Looking back I am increasingly grateful to the many people who took a share in this fortunate happening , though now I realise that I might have expressed my gratitude to them more often and more appreciatively . |
| 3 | Actually I was so anxious to have him that I would have said anything — but I did put my marriage first , I made that choice , and although it meant I had many , many years of frustration as an actress , I 'm not sorry I made that choice . |
| 4 | ‘ I realised the drink was not helping and that I would have to stop it . ’ |
| 5 | There may be more to this than meets the eye ( if you 'll excuse the pun ) as just once in a while I have taken zander during the daytime in water that has been so clear that I would have rated my chances as zero . |
| 6 | I distinctly remember feeling guilty at thinking that I would have to lock my car so these children would n't steal my cameras . |
| 7 | After my marriage I realised that I would have to use it , put it on whenever I went out . |
| 8 | But even if he had given me a direct answer , I do n't know that I would have believed him . |
| 9 | I would have been sorrier still if she had not paraded her distress so openly , sighing and staring into space and insisting that Richard should buy her whisky , which is expensive in Morocco — in her place I should have been so humiliated and ashamed that I would have done my best to put a good face on it — but I was sorry enough to agree that she should come with us , in our car . |
| 10 | In another tone , she said , ‘ Not that I would have let her . ’ |
| 11 | You do n't think that I would have left you alone , down here , if I had n't known that you were all well and happy , do you ? |
| 12 | ‘ You 're so good at reading my mind that I would have thought you 'd know . ’ |
| 13 | I was certainly to do with feeling that I would have to be a little bit slimmer , that I would have to be acceptable to other people , that I would have to change my shape and at the same time , I could not resist consuming large amounts of food . |
| 14 | I knew in advance that I would have to retrace my steps on this road , to get to the Skye boat at the Kyle of Lochalsh , as there is nowadays only a summer ferry to the island from Glenelg . |
| 15 | ‘ No , the only thing I regret is that I may have rushed you into something you 're already beginning to repent . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Thus I might say to someone " Let's go and find out which is the oldest tree in the park " , without fearing that I may have said something unintelligible just because neither of us is certain what the outcome of our search will be . |
| 18 | I would be more than thankful and hopeful that I may have helped him in return for the inspiration he has given me . |
| 19 | But the great hikes we undertake on our holidays , usually in the Highlands of Scotland , or some other bleak , wet , cold hill country that I got to know in the days when I used to go climbing by myself ( and there 's another subject we might discuss ! ) , habitually entail a complex of discomfort , exhaustion , irritation , confusion , sheer misery and intense exhilaration so closely intertwined that I shall have to leave them to be considered on another occasion . |
| 20 | In private conversation he told Asquith " I am afraid that I shall have to show myself very vicious Mr Asquith this session . |
| 21 | All I know , like the protestors when the Julian became the Gregorian calendar , is that I must have missed something . |
| 22 | ‘ Lots of people say it must be easy for my family to carry on in music and that I must have taught them everything — but I feel they just inherited their love of music as it 's in our blood . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ And when I make it to the charts , then I 'll have to admit that I will have owed it to the world 's greatest entertainer ever — Elvis the King of Rock . ’ |
| 24 | I decided to go up and see me doctor 'cos at the time I ‘ ad about 600 that I could 've got me ‘ ands on . |
| 25 | I dedicate this article to the memory of Eric Mosley who helped me so much in the early days of my research , to George Wyndham Parker for his encouragement , and to Jack Alcock , without whom this article would never have been possible , my only wish is that I could have met him in person . |
| 26 | And the other thing is that it 's erm er , er Jeremy had er er , inadvertently really , er I , I know that I could have crowned him when he did it , but he was getting er , taking the lamp from the bookcase erm , which is at the end of the bookcase through to his own room to use temporarily because in trying to get the shade off his , the old one there , he , he snapped the fitting , and why , when he did that , erm , he er , disconnected the phone and of course , wiped out all the memory you know , the numbers that that you put in ! |
| 27 | The connection with neurosis was not unconscious , nor yet fully conscious in the sense that I could have expressed it verbally , but it was , in being unique , all-pervasive . |
| 28 | That 's something I do n't sa , not so matter that I could have told him ! |
| 29 | Daniel 's story certainly confirmed to me that I did the right thing — and that I should have done it years ago , if only for my children 's sake . |
| 30 | But I am not so sure that I should have recognised what I recognised unconsciously at the time of writing : that I was in a state of helplessness , the helplessness of being a non-person . |