Example sentences of "may have been [v-ing] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think it would have been the Zetland , and — who knows — Mrs Field may have been riding with them that day . |
| 2 | The word ‘ championship ’ , however , no matter how much he may have been thinking about it privately , I did not hear from him until much later in the year , when the scales began to tip in his favour . |
| 3 | Some younger ones too may want children to fill some need for love and affection that may have been lacking in their lives . |
| 4 | Others , again , wished to defend Europe against Islam ; the dukes of Normandy and Lower Lorraine may have been fleeing from their incapacity to rule their duchies . |
| 5 | They may have been suffering with anything from stress-related migraines to pre-menstrual tension . |