Example sentences of "[pers pn] may have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The changes have been more fundamental and some of them may have affected us in ways that we do not immediately recognise . |
| 2 | It is unlikely to be in exactly the same position , even if she could find it , for during the night there is a great deal of jostling among the youngsters and any one of them may have moved about eighteen inches or so . |
| 3 | Either of them may have seen the killer . |
| 4 | Some of them may have become bottom living , crawling hunters for which a gastropod-like shell would have been more appropriate . |
| 5 | It is probable that they either crashed or were shot down , although Stirling states that there was evidence that at least some of them may have reached their target . |
| 6 | Some people who comply well with all that is suggested to them may have done little more than comply ( incidentally , much of the " normal " first year of recovery is reckoned to be little more than compliance ) and think erroneously after a few weeks of treatment that they have learnt all they need to know and have done all they need to do to remain free from addictive disease . |
| 7 | ’ The concluding words show that a claim to contribution might arise under the Act of 1935 out of tortious conduct committed by two or more persons even though one or both of them may have committed a crime in the course of such conduct . |
| 8 | At the same time , however , discussion tended to be dominated by certain sets of people ; by academics , by Americans , by mathematicians and scientists , by people with little experience of younger children or of the teachers who normally guide them , by scholars whose passionate concern for their own disciplines and the elegance of thought within them may have outweighed their concern for the school curriculum and the balanced development of school children . |
| 9 | Other long-tail types impair flight and show greater sexual dimorphism , but variation in their initial evolutionary cost suggests differences in how female preferences for them may have evolved . |
| 10 | That is to say , I may have appeared calm , but inside anxiety raged . |
| 11 | ‘ No , the only thing I regret is that I may have rushed you into something you 're already beginning to repent . |
| 12 | I think , however , I may have discovered a cure . |
| 13 | Like a politician I may have overstated my case to make my point . |
| 14 | Erm and I may have slowed down a little today , I do n't know I should have timed it again . |
| 15 | ‘ I think I may have heard it as a bedtime story when I was a small child . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ But I may have become blind to its charms . |
| 17 | I may have asked a few more questions ; I ca n't remember now . |
| 18 | Or was it just another side of his character I had not seen before , but that I may have suspected was always there ? |
| 19 | Not much to report this week on the home front , except that I have a sneaking feeling I may have broken a bone in my right hand . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . ’ |
| 22 | I may have done , I may not have done . |
| 23 | Er so whether I unconsciously got it from there , I , I do n't really know , I may have done . |
| 24 | ‘ I may have done . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I may have done . |
| 26 | I may have done it . |
| 27 | If I was 40 , I may have said ‘ I 'm all right ’ and gone back but not now . |
| 28 | Thus I might say to someone " Let's go and find out which is the oldest tree in the park " , without fearing that I may have said something unintelligible just because neither of us is certain what the outcome of our search will be . |
| 29 | Recently I joined a drama group — I may have said . |
| 30 | ‘ I may have said too much . |