Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [verb] [vb pp] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The changes have been more fundamental and some of them may have affected us in ways that we do not immediately recognise . |
| 2 | The law sees the case as no different in principle from dealing with a murder in a street by prosecuting everyone who lives in that street , on the basis that one of them must have done it . |
| 3 | As for the countryside , the main complaint of the wage labourer was of underemployment and at certain seasons of the agricultural calendar many of them must have wished they did not have time on their hands . |
| 4 | ‘ No , the only thing I regret is that I may have rushed you into something you 're already beginning to repent . |
| 5 | ‘ I think I may have heard it as a bedtime story when I was a small child . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | I may have done it . |
| 8 | I may have sent it quicker over the goal line with this touch , but I think it would have reached it in any case . ’ |
| 9 | Also , I may have given him the impression , with the urgency of youth possessed of strong convictions , that I wanted at all costs to have something published on this subject . |
| 10 | ‘ As a matter of fact , I think I may have seen it . ’ |
| 11 | They did n't give any details about the Leeds match ( or I may have missed them as I was simultaneously talking on the phone ) . |
| 12 | I may have missed her coming out here . ’ |
| 13 | I may have lost it , and I am certainly not wandering around the palace looking for a glove ! ’ |
| 14 | A Celtic pantheon of gods whirled about my head , and I may have got them a bit mixed up here . |
| 15 | Sorry , just one other point on W O P there , I may have got it wrong , did you say earlier on that er , that if you get H I V , so the W O P benefit is n't payable , what about the al , did we say the allocation of W O P will still continue ? |
| 16 | My lady wife behaved exceptionally badly , as I think I may have told you . |
| 17 | As far as I remember he nodded in his own particularly grave yet twinkling way and that was that , I may have mentioned it again , in which case he said very little more than , ‘ We 've already discussed it . ’ |
| 18 | He said , ‘ I may have mentioned I saw service in the desert … ’ |
| 19 | It conditioned my hair really well but I think I may have used it too often because my hair became a little TOO soft to style after a while ! ’ |
| 20 | Well I may have taken it because we |
| 21 | I would be more than thankful and hopeful that I may have helped him in return for the inspiration he has given me . |
| 22 | I may have deceived you . |
| 23 | Again , I think I may have underestimated it hearing it on Yuri Bashmet 's disc straight after his amazing performance of the Viola Concerto . |
| 24 | I may have reminded him of his wife or daughter . |
| 25 | ‘ There is a question I ought to have asked you before , Joe . ’ |
| 26 | Did I ask you most of the questions I ought to have asked you ? |
| 27 | Oh , then I ought to have done it last night . |
| 28 | I ought to have done it long ago . |
| 29 | I must say I 'm seeing a new side to you today , and I ought to have suspected it before . |
| 30 | She had at times , almost as if it were a comfort , at least something accustomed , run through the fruitless litany of remorse : I ought not to have tolerated his infidelities , I ought to have stopped it at the start , I have colluded with his depravity , it is all my fault . |