Example sentences of "they [vb mod] have [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AIDS is an everyday topic in the papers and on television ; there is every chance that your children have become interested , even at a young age , but they may have misunderstood things and have some strange ideas . |
| 2 | They may have lost touch with their friends and have to start again to build up a new social circle . |
| 3 | The case for such objective assessment before operation seems particularly strong in women over the age of 50 because they may have suffered occult damage to the anal sphincter during the childbirth and could be at particular risk of a poor functional outcome if the sphincter were to sustain further damage at the time of operation . |
| 4 | In 1716 money troubles made the family move to lodgings in Salisbury , where they may have become friends of Henry Fielding [ q.v. ] and his family . |
| 5 | Sprague de Camp also says that the sharpness of the Tyrannosaurus ’ teeth hints that they may have eaten meat softened by decomposition . |
| 6 | They may have noted gaps in the company 's roster of artists which need to be filled . |
| 7 | They may have survived County Louth but Malcolm 's driving is an entirely different matter . |
| 8 | They may have obtained support , in manpower , money and material , from all three ; but they themselves were essentially political in orientation . |
| 9 | WHETHER or not the atomic bomb tests at Monte Bello affected the servicemen concerned there by radiation so that they may have developed forms of cancer is not proved and possibly is not susceptible of proof . |
| 10 | Furthermore , they may have to accept work further away from home than they are accustomed to travelling , which may in itself present child care problems . |
| 11 | My young son put them into a barrelling machine to clean them , so they may have changed colour as a result . |
| 12 | Erm er I think they 're probably and and they 're putting more effort into getting the unemployed off being unemployed off being unemployed into course are n't they so probably the they may have improved things but anyway the basic erm idea of it was that you borrow money er you borrow erm money to finance a course which is going to get you a job . |
| 13 | Alternatively , they may have found objective setting a dull ritual that did n't make any difference to anything . |
| 14 | Planning officers had recommended refusal although chief officer Tony Noble warned that they may have to pay costs if the applicant succeeded at a subsequent appeal . |
| 15 | They may have worked years for long hours in restaurants . |
| 16 | I deny that there were any evictions ; they may have got letters of removal , but I deny that these were any evictions in the sense of evictions . " |
| 17 | But , you know , a lot of those repeats get huge audiences , and th they must have repeated Dad 's Army , and 'Ello , 'Ello about fourteen hundred times , but they still get enormous ratings , those programmes . |
| 18 | Well as I understand they must have had pumps down there or something to or something to keep them dry because er |
| 19 | ‘ It is difficult to make the transition because the normal prerequisite of a finance director is that they must have had board level experience and as a financial controller reporting to a director it 's very difficult to get that . ’ |
| 20 | They must have had transport . |
| 21 | ‘ They must have had birthdays , ’ Benny insisted . |
| 22 | Picasso had never shown publicly at the big Salons , but Braque 's Cubist works exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants of 1909 were widely discussed and were undoubtedly an influence on some painters , while they must have helped others to interpret Cézanne in a more intellectual , objective way . |
| 23 | They must have forgotten Hoover . |
| 24 | I said he 's my father and then he falls out the fucking bed when they put him in it because they admit negligence , they forgot to put the cot side up , dad has got lack of oxygen to his bra brain , he thought it was the Battle of Hastings going on but they said there was nobody there , well surely they must have known Joy he fell out the bloody bed because he 's laying like this and he 's falling and he 's falling and bang come out , he split all his bloody head open , do you know the blood was there from the night he fell out , he fell out at half past ten at night and they never informed us , which is against the law and the blood still sat there at quarter to four the following day , all over the floor , he 's got a bloody stitch in his head which they done to him while he were in the bed , and ripped three tubes out of his arm , split all his bloody arm open |
| 25 | Yeah they must have known Chris Smith was n't there . |
| 26 | They must have put money on his reaching 50 . |
| 27 | They must have got news at Forteviot . ’ |
| 28 | It was a reasonable enough question , she thought , considering that they must have walked miles that day . |
| 29 | ‘ They should have given Gary a chance . |
| 30 | They should have flown north in March , but perhaps they were n't paying attention when the others left , maybe deep in conversation or looking the other way . |