Example sentences of "he may [adv] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He may also have felt that the time was not ripe for any definitive initiative . |
| 2 | He may also have kept the stewardship of Tottington and Rochdale , in spite of Edward 's orders to the contrary . |
| 3 | He may also have kept the stewardship of Tottington and Rochdale , in spite of Edward 's orders to the contrary . |
| 4 | At some time he may also have sent an expedition against Normandy which was defeated , and his Helmet coin type , perhaps current from 1003 to 1009 , depicts him in armour ; according to the surviving verse on him by the Icelandic poet Gunnlaug Serpent 's Tongue , the army feared Æthel-red no less than God , and N.P. Brooks has shown that he increased the military burdens on his people by requiring more of his soldiers to wear helmets and byrnies . |
| 5 | He may also have obtained from Popes Leo III and Paschal I privileges giving him control of all the monasteries he had acquired . |
| 6 | He may also have hoped that by supporting a revolution with which the Chinese felt no small degree of identification , he would be able to outmanoeuvre his Maoist critics . |
| 7 | He may also have developed some connections with the Tempests of Bracewell . |
| 8 | He may also have developed some connections with the Tempests of Bracewell . |
| 9 | But he may also have intended to remind those present that he had come to the throne as a result of the treaty he had made with Edmund , which according to Florence of Worcester established peace , friendship and brotherhood between them . |
| 10 | He may also have had expensive tools or special equipment of some kind , or a car or boat which has to be sold . |
| 11 | He may also have to fight off a takeover bid — Fininvest , the Milan-based media company controlled by Silvio Berlusconi revealed a 1 per cent holding last week . |
| 12 | Now , he does think that the one and the mind is present to every one of us , erm , but I also take it that erm he er thought that he himself , had been able to ascend to the one er four times in the course of his life and that he also thought that some of his students were of better contemplation than others and erm so he may also have thought as Plato did , that some people are more inclined towards philosophy than others . |
| 13 | But he may not have done another thing ; he may just have faded into obscurity if he 'd lived on . ’ |
| 14 | ( He may just have over-estimated demand ; but we think that that is unlikely . |
| 15 | ‘ He may just have meant the girl , ’ pointed out Lane . |
| 16 | He may well have trailed us back into London . ’ |
| 17 | He may well have heard in some reach of his mind an as yet uncreated harmony , as a composer hears the music that he is about to translate into sound . |
| 18 | But he may well have kicked up another by exposing the eight other Test-playing nations . |
| 19 | However , he may well have made the wrong choice for the right reason . |
| 20 | He may well have believed that the factionalization inherent in Woodville control of the heir posed such a threat to political stability that his own rule was preferable — he may have persuaded himself , in fact , that he was acting for the good of the realm . |
| 21 | He may well have believed that the factionalization inherent in Woodville control of the heir posed such a threat to political stability that his own rule was preferable — he may have persuaded himself , in fact , that he was acting for the good of the realm . |
| 22 | But Acts is clearly not intended to give a complete account of Paul 's activities , and he may well have visited Jerusalem on other occasions which are not recorded . |
| 23 | He may well have imagined when he met me that he was acquiring the means of escape from the kingdom of the past . |
| 24 | He kept in check the political and economic expectations of his people , but in so doing he may well have placed a burden on his young and untried successor , the fourteen-year-old Makhostive , his son by Ntombi Latfwala , who was queen regent of Swaziland from 1983 until the prince was crowned in April 1986 . |
| 25 | If so , such expedients failed , for Ælfgifu was soon back in England supporting her son , and he may well have owed his popularity in the midlands partly to her Mercian kindred . |
| 26 | Moreover in the years 1176–7 he was taking a keen interest in the competing politics of the Spanish kingdoms and he may well have instructed Richard to ensure that the great road south from Bordeaux to the Pyrenees was kept open for travellers of all sorts , pilgrims , traders and couriers . |
| 27 | It makes sense that if he were able to play as well at Test level as in county matches he may well have scored 80 first-class hundreds already . |
| 28 | For himself , he may well have decided that his cavils against classical philology applied equally to academe in general , so that , wounded pride apart , he was hardly worse off than before . |
| 29 | He may well have asked his sister to invite Meredith . |
| 30 | He may well have lost customers ; and even those he retained would no doubt have been despondent if not positively angry at what they were having to pay . |