Example sentences of "may [vb infin] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She may 've been murdered , ’ said Constance . |
| 2 | It may 've been found already . ’ |
| 3 | Staff are angry at the thought the duck 's may 've been mistreated |
| 4 | Yeah , that 's the whole thing , we 've gathered all the information now , we may 've been there an hour , hour an a half , maybe two hours depending upon the appointment so you go back to the office and work on a plan of attack . |
| 5 | Private letters are like a conversation overheard , often more revealing than an autobiography , or than a diary which may have been written with more than half an intention of allowing it to be published . |
| 6 | From a letter to Francesco Gonzaga , written in 1622 and published by A. Luzio , in which among others a self-portrait of Tintoretto is offered to him , Pittalunga argues that the Paris picture may have been the one mentioned and which formed part of Rubens 's estate . |
| 7 | The shape of a picture may have been altered , and the museum , though not a stray visitor , will know the fact . |
| 8 | Newspaper profiles are quite likely to be based on interviews , which have an immediate attraction , though a reader will naturally be wary about how accurately the interview may have been recorded . |
| 9 | Even taped interviews can only be read with caution , since they may have been edited , and the reader will not be told how . |
| 10 | And there is a point of view from which Ronald Fraser might be seen as a man of Marxist leanings who paid a professional adviser what may have been a fair whack of a working man 's wages to enquire with him into the deficiencies of his affective life . |
| 11 | Nail on the Banister by R. Stornaway , alias R. Scott , is an eloquent Scots joke of the Thirties , and it allows one to say that Glasser 's banister was a bed of nails , but that his slides may have been less painful than Fraser 's . |
| 12 | Klima 's first loves have a way of not working out ; and what may have been his longest affair is the one about which least is said . |
| 13 | Kiernan reports suggestions that Lermontov 's own death ( like Pushkin 's in another duel a few months before ) may have been murder , a murder planned by court reactionaries . |
| 14 | Those who pursue comparisons of the kind I am referring to are likely to be impressed by the staying-power of a literary preoccupation to which a variety of temperaments and compulsions has been attracted , and could well be inclined to believe that Pechorin 's duel and indifference may have been among the precedents that weighed , a century later , with a woman bent on contriving her appointment with destiny . |
| 15 | The Facts is preoccupied with one shiksa in particular : the deadly Josie , whom Roth marries , who forces his hand in the matter by faking an abortion , who comes near to destroying him , and who may have been , according to the Zuckerman letter at the end of the book , an alcoholic . |
| 16 | Levi was interested in action , purpose , work , and capable of them : and the capacity may have been formed in contention with a desire to withdraw and perhaps to give up . |
| 17 | It all happened so quickly — sometimes I think it may have been too quickly . |
| 18 | But may have been through that earlier . |
| 19 | Is it so likely that that man , however much he may have been struck by your beauty and gaiety , Miss Jonathan , would have at once decided to assassinate your future husband ? ’ |
| 20 | Extensive searches revealed a series of tyre marks along the fairway leading to the 15th and there are fears that Sir Vivien , reputed to be one of the seventeen richest men in the country , may have been kidnapped and held to ransom . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Besides , he may have been driven over the edge by her carryings-on . |
| 22 | ‘ I think a part of me probably died when I took your job , though it may have been just the settling-down thing . |
| 23 | That person may have been a university lecturer , a teacher , a receptionist , a cleaner , a waitress or anything . |
| 24 | This means that a patio of ample size will be needed , which could use a combination of pre-cast slabs and new brick paving , or , of you are lucky , some old bricks that may have been in the garden already . |
| 25 | The instructor may have been wondering if the height was going to be sufficient for a normal approach even though the student had already cut out the base leg to make a 180° turn on to finals . |
| 26 | Collect any powders , tablets or anything you think may have been used to take the drug . |
| 27 | Follow the opponent 's shape , not his attacking limb , because although an individual technique may have been successfully evaded , the opponent still remains potentially dangerous . |
| 28 | He is frequently described as ‘ having the stoop of an ageing crop-picker and the face of a curious little boy ’ — which may have been true 30 years ago , but now belongs to the discard-tray with other caricatures : caricatures , as Oscar Wilde observed , are compliments that mediocrity pays to genius . |
| 29 | They reserve one day for women , and in 1886 there may have been no day reserved for women at all . |
| 30 | It may have been heralded as a strategic disaster , but the Manchester-Sheffield electric route via Woodhead tunnel slipped quietly into oblivion , due ceremony avoided because of the public puzzlement that a heavy freight route should be axed only twenty-five years after complete modernisation . |