Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] have [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is to say , I may have appeared calm , but inside anxiety raged . |
| 2 | I may have to use varnish stripper . |
| 3 | And reaching 30 in a recession is a special problem in itself — I may have to tread water in my career for some years because there is no chink of promotion in my business . |
| 4 | Did I tell you I may have to have surgery ? |
| 5 | In my long journey I may have acquired illness and age , but I had gathered something too . |
| 6 | Then I must have lost consciousness . ’ |
| 7 | I think I must have expressed dissatisfaction with the ‘ Poetry and Propaganda ’ article , because , like others that I had submitted to him up to that point , it was never to appear . |
| 8 | This was just as well , because I must have looked pea green , and it did n't make me feel any better to watch Olive sitting up front chatting to the pilot and navigator , obviously having the time of her life . |
| 9 | ‘ I must have taken leave of my senses ! ’ |
| 10 | Of the thousand-plus programmes I must have taken part in during those years I remember very little , and those mostly trivial things : Thor Heyerdahl the Norwegian explorer arriving half an hour late from Broadcasting House because the taxi driver sent to fetch him understood he had been told to pick up four airedales ( a reasonable enough request , he reckoned , from the BBC ) ; the maverick film director Ken Russell whacking Alexander Walker , the Evening Standard film critic , over the head with a copy of his own paper ; Norman St John Stevas , MP ( now Lord St John of Fawsley ) winking at a cameraman who had had the stars and stripes sewn on to the bottom of his jeans ; Enoch Powell 's eyes filling with tears when I asked if he was an emotional man ; A. J. P. Taylor on his seventy-fifth birthday admitting he had never been offered an honour and when I asked him which he would like if given the choice , his replying , ‘ A baronetcy , because it would make my elder son so dreadfully annoyed . ’ |
| 11 | I must have wasted money on four or five that are hopeless . |
| 12 | But I should have sent word . ’ |
| 13 | I thought by now I should be at home , I thought by now I should have secured peace , or died honourably in the attempt . |
| 14 | I did n't go till about half ten ah no cos I had a few letters and stuff to write first and I thought right I 'll just take me time and , cos I wanted to I did n't wan na go faster than you know than I should , I should have done sort of thing cos I wanted to time it properly . |
| 15 | He mastered his rage , dropped his hand , said , his voice as indifferent as hers , but the feeling beneath it deep indeed , ‘ I should have thrashed sense into you long ago , Daughter , as I would have done had you been a boy . |
| 16 | ‘ I should have made love to you long before this . ’ |
| 17 | According to last year 's appraisal sheet I should have undergone training in : |
| 18 | It seems more likely that I should have denied depression , helplessness and , above all , being a non-person . |
| 19 | But I 'd bought the wrong weedkiller , it was Tumbleweed and I found out later it 's only lethal to tropical fish , apparently I should have bought pathklear which is much stronger . |
| 20 | ‘ I should have thrown convention to the winds . |
| 21 | I should have taken notice . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ By rights I should have had compensation , but the firm argued that he was a freelance , working on contract , and their lawyers wriggled out of it . |
| 23 | Had this not been the case , I should have had renown in |
| 24 | Of course I have n't written the review — I doubt if I should have had time , my own work takes up too much . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I suppose I should have got hold of a nightdress for you . |
| 26 | I guess I should have paid attention in Sunday school . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I should have failed B-test ’ |
| 28 | Yet I am so much under the spell of your witchery I might have viewed parson 's mousetrap with a kindly eye were you the bait — and not the false promises with which I am to be lured . |
| 29 | I hope that I might have undertaken work of this kind without the experience of working for North Tyneside Community Development Project ( CDP ) from 1974 to 1977 , but I did and that experience shaped both the conceptualizing and the carrying out of this project . |
| 30 | ‘ And , while I appreciate your charitable intent in trying to comfort me for Lotta 's absence from my bed , I tell you once more that the time when I might have needed consolation for Lotta 's tricks has long since passed , and the fact that I 've chosen to live the life of a monk for the past six months is because until the past few days I have felt no desire to give in to the temptations paraded before me . ’ |