Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] [verb] had some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lying as it does near the putative centre of the town , the building may have had some public function . |
| 2 | The only conclusion that can be drawn from the above correspondence is that Stirling must have had some sort of operation in mind using parachutes during the period when he was returning from his second visit to Sirte . |
| 3 | As he dwelt particularly on the menace of the French positions on the Left Bank , the Heir to the Throne must have had some difficulty hiding a note of ‘ I-told-so-you-so ’ For Falkenhayn , in his insistence on limiting the attack to one bank only , had stood in an isolation that was hardly splendid . |
| 4 | That way if one of the midfield does do themselves a mischief Rocky will have had some games at least ( I 'd rest Strachan personally to keep him going for the League campaign — which IMO is our best chnace of a European place [ we 're too unlucky in the cups ] ) . |
| 5 | Tolby must have had some way of preventing Hubert from talking . |
| 6 | Heather must have had some compelling reason to follow in the direction they led , yet what that reason might be he was no nearer discovering . |
| 7 | Prior Robert may have had some qualms concerning his own worthiness , though that was a weakness to which he seldom succumbed . |
| 8 | Entry Requirements : Besides a First or Second Class Honours degree or its equivalent , applicants should have had some prior programming experience . |
| 9 | ‘ Ah , well , your little lecture must have had some effect . |
| 10 | The propaganda may have had some success ; it was , nevertheless , necessary . |
| 11 | Blyth had lots of time to realise what was happening , jumping about the Snake Park screaming as the frantic and enraged snake bit his stump repeatedly , and little Esmerelda must have had some inkling what was going to happen to her as she was slowly blown away . |
| 12 | So Balder Head must have had some architectural significance or other , although I doubt if anyone in the dale realized it . |
| 13 | From the lists I made , I came to feel that European culture in the last millennium may have had some 100 real heroes , the mastersingers of Europe , of which I have tried to identify half . |
| 14 | This system worked very slowly and made secrecy virtually impossible : it has been calculated that in all some 2,000 people may have had some influence , direct or indirect , on the functioning of this cumbersome machinery . |
| 15 | We could n't see the slightest movement in the fog , but gradually the noise of the engines diminished and died away , and the collective sigh of relief from the top of Flying Control must have had some part in the clearance of the fog , as by the time all four aircraft returned ( bomb-less ) we could actually see the 1,000 yard marker on the other side of the field . |
| 16 | Wallia may have had some say in the grant made to his people . |
| 17 | Situations where subdivisions might have had some utility are served by the coordination of index terms at the search stage ( see 17.2 ) . |
| 18 | Blanche sensed his dislike must have had some personal grounds . |
| 19 | Even though Gundovald can never have said some of the things which Gregory attributes to him , the bishop of Tours must have had some reason for putting the words into his mouth . |
| 20 | Alex may have had some response ready , but he got no chance to voice it , as Bobby Anscombe turned his fury on Paul Lexington . |
| 21 | Her voice stayed steady , despite feeling sick with anger and humiliation ; ‘ — but I imagine the Cabinet Office must have had some idea as to whether this is going to touch on security within this country . ’ |