Example sentences of "i [modal v] [adv] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had things gone wrong with me , I may ultimately have been sent to prison . |
| 2 | I may even have said in the spirit of the joke that it had been one hundred and fifty-six whores , for all the world as though it was of an obsessive importance for the actual number to be known with absolute accuracy ! |
| 3 | ‘ I may even have to sell the house in Ladbroke Grove to pay for the losses . ’ |
| 4 | In fact I may even have them be in here . |
| 5 | I may even have redecorated the sitting room by then ! |
| 6 | I may even have just called for him and stood at the door . |
| 7 | I may also have dwelt too long on the years between 1690 and 1730 , but this was simply because it seems to be most people 's favourite period . |
| 8 | I may well have had holistic tendencies for I am both an artist and a writer , but all that was subconscious . |
| 9 | These " no-hopers " were probably given to me because I may well have been overheard to say I did not believe that there was such a person who had gone through a-initio training as a pilot who could not get on step by step until he became an operational pilot . |
| 10 | And I may well have some input files which you could u test with . |
| 11 | well , well thank Mr very much , if you , if you could , I can accommodate Mr at any reasonable time tomorrow , erm , but although he may say he 's only got , he only wants to rest for a quarter of an hour d'your , as you gather from the interchange from the bench , that 's er , that will be the very minimum and I may well have questions to ask him , although I hope I 'd asked most of them to Mr , so , erm , but I 'm , I 'm I think for everybody 's convenience it , erm , unless he 's got a specific time he could deal with , we either start say at eleven thirty , when Mr can be here or at two , erm , but if he 's got some other clever idea I 'm perfectly prepared to entertain him , but er we ca n't leave this hanging around , I 've got ta write this and whichever way it goes we 've got ta look at it again , er and although I suppose I 'm not entirely unheard of and I disappear to the court of appeal next term it 's gon na make things extremely awkward to try and arrange anything else next term , cos I 've got two other judges to bear in mind as well as myself |
| 12 | I may just have me chicken out and keep the sausage for another day |
| 13 | Depending on when you get this letter , I may already have married you . |
| 14 | Whatever roots I may once have had were cut off years ago when as a young man or old boy I left my father 's house to make my way in horrible competitive London . |
| 15 | I realise that , if I am accepted , once I have completed my degree I may often have to work for over 80 hours at a stretch during a weekend on call . |
| 16 | ‘ Oh , I may still have a black dog in me , ’ he says . |
| 17 | I may now have an inkling of what has happened to me over the last few years ; I may have lined up a few suspects , even tentatively put my finger on ‘ who done it ’ ; I may have my own private detectives working alongside the regular police , and we may have made an arrest or two , but the file has not been closed . |
| 18 | I think I may now have seen how to proceed in a paper I 'm writing at the moment on unconscious intention . |
| 19 | ‘ I may possibly have added a word or two . ’ |
| 20 | If this had been the case I may possibly have been offered some cosmetic surgery , but this wo n't happen because it 's a natural part of pregnancy . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've loved being single and independent in my 20s , ’ says Anthea , ‘ but , as 30 beckons , I 'm asking myself if not having a life partner by now means that I may never have one . |
| 22 | I may never have another chance to set up my own business … and it means so much to me … |
| 23 | I may never have the strength again . ’ |
| 24 | Oddly enough I may never have had an operational tour had it not been for one of these fellow travellers . |
| 25 | ‘ I may indeed have given her a guinea or two in a moment of late night extravagance . |
| 26 | ‘ I was greatly heartened and told myself I must previously have misjudged the situation — that my subjects were after all behind me and would see that right was done . ’ |
| 27 | But first I must just have a word with you about … ’ |
| 28 | Some time during the few days ' leave , when talking about my life — not work , of course — at Bletchley , I must rashly have let slip the fact that occasionally I was tired . |
| 29 | I must early have realized that it was to be a regular correspondence , for I kept her letters , though I usually destroy letters as soon as I have answered them . |
| 30 | ‘ Well , I did not , and I must actually have been in the gardens . |