Example sentences of "i may have [been] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would prefer not to have my guy stand up and say I may have been involved in an assassination . ’ |
| 2 | I may have been approaching it from the wrong angle . |
| 3 | I may have been being a bit selfish , but I could n't bear to lose him in that way , and he seemed to be making such an effort himself , not ever putting weight on that leg and eating as much as he could . |
| 4 | The press release the editors sent me was acceptable , but I may have been the only person to get it . |
| 5 | I may have been called a pillock and a dickhead , but no one asked why I had tried to brain my companion . |
| 6 | I may have been out of the arena for a while , but I daresay there are still some who remember the old gladiator . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I may have been thinking of using the money saved from the mortgage payments on a new telly or something , but not now . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I may have been over-enthusiastic . |
| 9 | I may have been wrong proportionately as many times as the result of an amniocentesis turns out to have been wrong : that is , being wrong in both cases amounts to a hypothetical possibility , but is not normal . |
| 10 | I mean I may have been being a bit naive as a general sort of , just a rep within NALGO , I 'm not I 'm not , although I 've had all the publicity , and yes I 'm , sometimes you do not the course . |
| 11 | I may have been absent or something . |
| 12 | I may have been speaking to Francis but I 'm not certain of that . |
| 13 | ‘ I may have been a more enthusiastic scholar if they had been ! ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Look , I may have been angry when I found out but … ’ |
| 15 | In fact , I may have been lulled by that into an unwise bravado . |
| 16 | I may have been too authoritarian … |
| 17 | I 'll admit I may have been naïve … ’ |
| 18 | Just because I may have been a little short-tempered of late — ’ |
| 19 | ‘ All right , ’ he conceded , ‘ I may have been mistaken about Richard , but can you blame me ? |
| 20 | This led to an occasional resetting of my settings when I may have been distracted . |