Example sentences of "they [vb mod] have [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm I do n't know if if I 'm right in saying , but I think they may have given a tip to other people like er the chore boy , there used to be a chore boy . |
| 2 | They may have felt a degree of excitement as they turned their cameras on a train arriving at a station , waves crashing on the beach , or a group of workers emerging from their daily grind in the factory , but these early pieces of reportage were seen as nothing more than ‘ animated photographs ’ , a further step in the development of photography . |
| 3 | He was the first scientist to suggest that they may have led a more vigorous life than the reptiles , and even proffered an atmospheric reason as to why they became extinct . |
| 4 | They realize they may have missed an event . |
| 5 | which is useful when they may have to wait a whole year for payment for their wheat harvest , or for the sale of fat cattle . |
| 6 | ‘ Then they may have to wait a long time . |
| 7 | In addition he has stressed the crankish nature of many of its supporters and the fact that it drew that support from only a very small section of the working class — even though they may have formed a significant proportion of the BUF 's small membership of between 5,000 and 40,000 members throughout the 1930s . |
| 8 | The Durotriges , with most probably the southern branch of the Dubunni , gave the Romans serious trouble , so it can be assumed that they may have supplied a strong detachment to help oppose the Medway crossing . |
| 9 | There 's concern they may have copied a similar incident , screened on the television series ’ The Bill ’ , just the day before . |
| 10 | But we do know that the most obvious surviving monuments , the stone circles , take that form , and we can at least speculate that they may have performed a similar function . |
| 11 | Clearly they failed to bring about disarmament , though they may have had a contributory effect on the decision to suspend tests in 1958 and later on the partial test ban treaty . |
| 12 | For all I know they may have been part-time MPs , or they may have had a limited electorate to represent . |
| 13 | The similarity of their design to cup-and-ring patterns is striking and suggests that they may have had a ritual function . |
| 14 | They may have had a function in aiding the picking out of broken threads on the loom . |
| 15 | Later these people reached all the inhabited areas of the Pacific and possibly America , it having been argued that they may have had a considerable influence on the rain-forest peoples of the New World , evidence coming from great similarities between certain groups in Borneo and central America , similarities greater than between these peoples and their geographic neighbours . |
| 16 | So there was the swings and roundabouts where had they not recognized and had come along with us , to the extent that we thought we could do our , a sharing objective er and it brought them out of the , the attitude that was hitherto adopted where well management really could n't care very much you know , if a man did suffer the loss of er five pound a week or whatever you know , and , and once it was made clear to him that there was no further er er use of the procedure and he could take it through his district you know , if he liked , the man did n't , well on exceptional cases perhaps they may have taken a case through , but er in the majority of cases the man just accepted it , and made up his losses er er later on . |
| 17 | Once their condition has stabilised they may have to face a whole range of issues : new restrictions ; new sensations ; new embarrassments ; new lifestyles . |
| 18 | They may have acquired this caution by observational learning — watching other monkeys trying to eat these insects and seeing the way they reacted to the prey 's ‘ chemical warfare ’ — or they may have evolved an inborn reaction towards bright patterns , enabling them to avoid such species from birth without any learning process , or they may have learned caution the hard way , by personal experience . |
| 19 | They may have got a number one , but it cost them ! |
| 20 | They may have lacked a proper use of the King 's English , and a knowledge of the finer points of etiquette and accepted behaviour in conforming to certain standards . |
| 21 | But they must have cost a lot |
| 22 | They must have heard a lot of wonderful music-making . |
| 23 | Individually or collectively , they must have made a decision to keep their wits about them for the committee meeting . |
| 24 | ‘ But they must have made a mistake — that ca n't possibly be right ! ’ |
| 25 | They must have gone a good two miles before they met another car . |
| 26 | He bought all the most fantastic " unrealistic " fiction he could find and afford ; by the rules they must have hidden a clue away in it " somewhere . |
| 27 | ‘ If they were foreigners , ’ he said slowly , ‘ they must have obtained a royal licence to enter England . |
| 28 | They must have done a good job and not over ‘ humanised ’ her because her introduction to the chimp group was problem-free . |
| 29 | They must have had a key , then ! ’ |
| 30 | Henry could not quite work out why , since her pleasantness was not always followed by a request for money or some other favour ; perhaps she was remembering something he had quite forgotten , an incident during their courtship perhaps ( they must have had a courtship ) or a Henry , now lost to Henry himself , who could have inspired feelings such as pleasure . |