Example sentences of "may [vb infin] done " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Japanese patenting of the Technics Class AA circuit was quite unknown to me , not having associated their advertisements for Class AA with anything I may have done until I read John Linsley Hood 's article in this journal for December 1989 . |
| 2 | Pearl under siege in insurance revolution : This insurer may have done too little too late to preserve its independence |
| 3 | But his reservations outweigh his praise : ‘ They may have done some good in creating interest in two people who 've made major innovations in twentieth-century music , but they 've also given a negative impression : that the people involved in this music have serious flaws in their personalities . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | Once again the weight of television coverage had no effect on party credibility ( though the nature of the coverage may have done so ) . |
| 6 | I 'm not sure whether 40 years later , the same mechanism made the word ‘ capitalism ’ popular among the people ; the Leipzig demonstrations suggest that in Saxony , at least , it may have done . |
| 7 | His subsequent actions in office , however little they may have done to encourage serious Catholic commitment to the Ulster state , were enough to confirm the conservative Protestant suspicion that O'Neill was another Lundy , prepared to follow the original by opening the gates of unionist Ulster 's walls to the disloyal Catholics and the Irish Republic . |
| 8 | Whatever else the planners may have done , they have disastrously lost sight of the last of these objectives . |
| 9 | In a good year you may have done unnecessary work ; in a bad one the harvest could be safe whilst others are still struggling with their expensive machinery . |
| 10 | Forgive others for what they may have done to you in the past ; and forgive yourself as well — you have probably learned much from your mistakes . |
| 11 | ‘ They may have done , but we 'll save 'em a journey if they have n't , ’ said Farmer Olinton , ‘ and I do n't think there 's much doubt that it 'll be a wasted journey now if they do come . ’ |
| 12 | The National Curriculum subjects will therefore have to be given priority for resources , especially where schools have not offered the full curriculum to all pupils , or in primary schools which may have done little science and technology . |
| 13 | As generations followed the pattern of the maze , the earth energies may have illumined their forms in just the way that they may have done with the cup-and-ring marks and the pilgrims ' tracks . |
| 14 | ‘ He may have done , we 'd not have heard him , ’ said the Leader , ‘ or thought he was shouting at the horses . |
| 15 | You may have done a good job on your own patch but you can not clear the entire neighbourhood . |
| 16 | A quick examination put her at ease but may have done little for her embarrassment ; the culprit was a misplaced liquorice all-sort . |
| 17 | ‘ He may have done it before , and said nothing to me because he knew I would n't approve . |
| 18 | Involvement is one thing , but we should never make the mistake which we may have done in relation to local government , of appearing to focus all our energies in one direction . |
| 19 | ‘ He quit after a fairly short time — I think he may have done it for only two terms . |
| 20 | The bravery of men swimming ashore in these pioneer beach reconnaissances is beyond question , and knowing Norman Teacher as a friend , as well as being his CO , the Commander feels there is a strong probability that the young Lieutenant made the supreme sacrifice in swimming to his death rather than risking his capture , as others , too , may have done . |
| 21 | Californian neuroscientist John Lilly may have done most to bring Ketamine to our attention . |
| 22 | But so often , though the parents may have done stupid and unwise things , the problem lies with the reaction of the child . |
| 23 | Voluntary work in the community can be just as useful as anything you may have done in a paid capacity . |
| 24 | Thanks to study in the Scriptories , Biff appreciated the seriousness of the situation as fully as Valence may have done . |
| 25 | One who may have done so is Tamotsu Ushida , the manager of Daiwa 's Omori branch in Tokyo . |
| 26 | At a time when the price of an Old Master painting can consume an entire annual acquisition budget , Mr Brown 's burnishing of the gallery 's image may have done more for the permanent collection than is immediately apparent . |
| 27 | However little he may have done in fact , it was enough to blacken his reputation in future among the nationalists . |
| 28 | And in any case , what Lucy may have done was surely not so dreadful and will be soon forgotten . |
| 29 | Pupils gaining the same overall mark may have done so by obtaining a different pattern of marks for individual questions . |
| 30 | Since most of England south of the Trent was now in a state of cultivation , there was little opportunity for drovers to strike across country and create new lines of movement , though on the moorlands north of the Trent they may have done so . |