Example sentences of "[pers pn] may have [vb pp] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ The concluding words show that a claim to contribution might arise under the Act of 1935 out of tortious conduct committed by two or more persons even though one or both of them may have committed a crime in the course of such conduct . |
| 2 | I think , however , I may have discovered a cure . |
| 3 | Not much to report this week on the home front , except that I have a sneaking feeling I may have broken a bone in my right hand . |
| 4 | I may have changed a word here or there , but apart from that it 's all exact . |
| 5 | ‘ I think you may have made a mistake . |
| 6 | You may have reached a stage where you feel you have ‘ got over ’ the original cause of your sorrow and even find yourself able to talk calmly about it to others . |
| 7 | Some of you may have seen a bit of these before or similar ones , but it does n't matter , because it 's worth looking at again . |
| 8 | You may have seen a film of the African tribe , the Masai , running : they run on their toes . |
| 9 | You may have seen a film , but wish to talk about who did the cinematography or who played a particular character . |
| 10 | You may have seen a table of life-events which indicates the relative effects of change on stress level . |
| 11 | You may have received a letter from them early in 1984 asking for up to date details . |
| 12 | You may have received a letter where the letters p.p. are written before the signature of the sender . |
| 13 | This column indicates any errors against the relevant modules ; for example , you may have specified a module with an incorrect syntax . |
| 14 | She may have made a mess of her life ; she may have faced problems beyond your comprehension . |
| 15 | She may have discovered a nest of young rabbits , a delicacy indeed in her terms , had a very good meal and then gone off to sleep within the rabbit 's nest . |
| 16 | She may have killed a rabbit in a spot — a dead-end , for example — where it prevents her escape by blocking the burrow . |
| 17 | She can complete a course double with BAGGRAVE LAD ( 3.15 ) in the Orbital Centre NH Flat race and earlier at Ludlow she may have initiated a treble by winning with her dual bumper winner RUN TO FORM ( 12.30 ) . |
| 18 | I have been told by an old Rochdale colleague of hers that she may have married a doctor and that he thinks she was left a cottage in Tonypandy some time in the mid to late 1960s . |
| 19 | We may have made a mess of most of them , including parliamentary democracy , but the cricket culture we have successfully assimilated and , as Graham Gooch may tell you , perfected . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | They may have had a function in aiding the picking out of broken threads on the loom . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | They may have got a number one , but it cost them ! |
| 25 | Like the minor , circular designs of the latter , it may have possessed a number of concentric bands . |
| 26 | It may have saved a lot of time . ’ |
| 27 | It may have made a decision which it had no power to make . |
| 28 | He says that it was a bit unfair — it may have made a difference . |
| 29 | It may have started a bit playfully but I thought it got out of hand . |
| 30 | Well we do n't have a definite answer erm Gill but we think it may have experienced a shock of some sort during that season and of course when this happens to fruit trees they can go into bi-annual cropping and then they come back again , it may be that this horse chestnut 's experienced something very similar . |