Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] have [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am sure that the House wished to join him in sending its sympathy to the many victims , some of whom may have suffered irreparable damage . |
| 2 | Some of them may have become bottom living , crawling hunters for which a gastropod-like shell would have been more appropriate . |
| 3 | Some people who comply well with all that is suggested to them may have done little more than comply ( incidentally , much of the " normal " first year of recovery is reckoned to be little more than compliance ) and think erroneously after a few weeks of treatment that they have learnt all they need to know and have done all they need to do to remain free from addictive disease . |
| 4 | Everything Fiona and Tremayne believed of me must have looked inevitable at that moment . |
| 5 | ‘ But I may have become blind to its charms . |
| 6 | I certainly do n't prefer the figurative though I may have lent this way at one time . |
| 7 | I may have seen many Garter Snakes on sale which I took to be pattern variations on the species most commonly available . |
| 8 | These are sort of a summary of them erm I may have missed one of the minor ones out . |
| 9 | Well research suggests that something like eighty eight percent , that 's research by Klaus and Bass , Klaus and Bass nineteen eighty-eight , actually I may have got that date wrong so I 'm not sure you should quote the date , anyway it 's Klaus and Bass . |
| 10 | As those visits covered a period of six months , I may have got some of the dialogue a little out of the exact chronological order , but by and large that was the sequence of events . |
| 11 | My period comes every month , so I think I may have caught some illness from my husband . |
| 12 | I may have mentioned one and that is that not satisfied with one deal a day |
| 13 | I may have put three in of those for one assignment . |
| 14 | But as I studied him any aggressive feelings I may have harboured evaporated quickly . |
| 15 | I hope that I may have encouraged some of my readers to use the garter carriage and next month I will be exploring stitch patterns and ways of combining these into interesting garments . |
| 16 | Someone should have said all this to him years ago . |
| 17 | and , I must have collected two hundred at most . |
| 18 | I must have waited several minutes , I should have known but I could n't bear the suspense . |
| 19 | ‘ I must have travelled all the way with Sparky in the engine . |
| 20 | And I must have turned faint , or something . |
| 21 | In those days I think I must have regarded many of the people dotted about my landscape more as bushes than as the human beings I now see them to have been : some dull and uninteresting like laurel bushes ; some like lavender sweetly scented ; some thorny , to be avoided ; and then rose bushes , gooseberry bushes , fuchsia bushes — but all just part of the scenery , and I withdrawn from them into my dreams . |
| 22 | Tom Jones had hit the scene wearing black horseshoe-necked , flared-leg catsuits — I must have made two dozen crimplene copies . |
| 23 | I think , to be absolutely honest , I must have made all those bits up . |
| 24 | I must have made thousands over those university years , much to the annoyance of my own family , as I 'd rarely made the effort for them . |
| 25 | And it would just completely throw the lesson , and then I would find myself repeating it for them , and in one lesson I must have done that about three times , and I did n't make enough fuss to get those kids to the lesson on time . |
| 26 | That 's alright that , I must have done six loads of washing , for some reason I just did n't seem to have enough to do me loads |
| 27 | I must have stood next to them in the Tube , passed them in the street , of course I 've overheard them and I knew they existed . |
| 28 | I put down the receiver and sat on the stairs trembling with panic , and I think I must have become pale , because I remember that my face felt very cold . |
| 29 | My mouth fell open and I must have stared wide-eyed at him . |
| 30 | I must have fallen asleep again then … |