Example sentences of "may [verb] said " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Steyn suggested one Prime Suspect voter may have said they voted for GBH , and then ‘ a little lie snowballed ’ . |
| 2 | Mr Steyn suggested one Prime Suspect voter may have said they voted for GBH , and then ‘ a little lie snowballed ’ . |
| 3 | He may have said cousin . ’ |
| 4 | Even the most abstract theoretical thesis uses data of some kind , even if it is largely what other people may have said on the topic . |
| 5 | He may have said , ‘ Kismet ’ . ' |
| 6 | He may have said , ‘ See you ’ , or ‘ See you again ’ , something general . ’ |
| 7 | If I was 40 , I may have said ‘ I 'm all right ’ and gone back but not now . |
| 8 | This happened despite whatever the countries ' constitutions may have said about freedom of speech . |
| 9 | Whatever Churchill may have said , most of Labour 's leaders were less ambitious , demanding only the addition of steeply progressive taxation to the existing apparatus of wartime control of industry . |
| 10 | France was a side torn apart between Trillo 's desire to make risk a factor in the gameplan and Dubroca who , as the spiritual heir to Fouroux , had favoured the safety-first approach , no matter what he may have said in public . |
| 11 | Whatever we may have said about theory permeating experience or paradigms governing science , truth will sometimes out , because nature is not a human creation . |
| 12 | This question need not however be pursued since , whatever counsel may have said , it is plain that the district judge did not proceed upon a false hypothesis . |
| 13 | The transaction effected by the transfer was , whatever the transfer may have said , a transfer for no , or if the £1,800 is taken into account a derisory , consideration and was not a sale . |
| 14 | I venture to add a few observations of my own only because I have to confess to having been a somewhat reluctant convert to the notion that the words which Parliament has chosen to use in a statute for the expression of its will may fall to be construed or modified by reference to what individual members of Parliament may have said in the course of debate or discussion preceding the passage of the Bill into law . |
| 15 | At best we might get material from which a more or less dubious inference might be drawn as to what the promoters intended or would have intended if they had thought about the matter , and it would , I think , generally be dangerous to attach weight to what some other members of either House may have said . |
| 16 | And therefore it does n't matter what the will may have said erm I mean it does n't matter what the intestacy may be er that survivor takes it and it goes to the survivor outside of the will and you do not deal with it . |
| 17 | they 'd leave themselves open to some criticism erm because the beneficiaries of whoever otherwise may be entitled to the shares may have said I would like to have those shares . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | But as the reader will be aware , during the past decade or so , the courts , building on a series of decisions which quite properly and logically held ineffective a number of ingenious and entirely artificial schemes devised for the manufacture and allowance of losses or expenses which were never in fact incurred , have sought to create and apply to transactions conferring tax advantages for which the legislature has made provision a doctrine of ‘ legitimate business purpose ’ , the general effect of which is that even though the citizen follows to the letter that which Parliament has told him that he can do in order to attract the fiscal consequences which Parliament has statutorily decreed will follow if he does it , nevertheless , whatever Parliament may have said shall be the consequences , the courts will and must decline to give effect , not to what he has done , but to the fiscal consequences which Parliament has provided , unless he demonstrates that there was a ‘ legitimate business purpose ’ for his action . |
| 20 | Recently I joined a drama group — I may have said . |
| 21 | And whatever the scholars of the sixteenth , seventeenth , and eighteenth centuries may have said or thought in private , there were very few who were prepared to come out into the open and publish opinions directly at variance with Holy Writ . |
| 22 | ‘ I may have said too much . |
| 23 | ‘ Because , ’ I replied , ‘ there was always a danger that Hopkins , who confided in so few people , may have said something to his sister which could have threatened her . |
| 24 | ‘ I may have said AZT in our interviews but that was a mistake , ’ he wrote . |
| 25 | He may have said that there will be no increase in German rates before Maastricht — indeed , hopefully , so long as the treaty is signed , not before our general election . |
| 26 | We had seventy at the beginning of last year , I think I may have said on the phone , a hundred a sixty five right now . |
| 27 | No , you may have said , ah , I 've got room this to do , I 've got this base to do , this base formwork base , erm , thi this wall er reinforcement to do . |
| 28 | Boccaccio 's Decameron and a thousand porno movies may have said it before , but director Fernando Trueba has made an enjoyable comedy full of sunlight and incident out of wry eroticism and some excellent acting . |