Example sentences of "[pers pn] may have [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I may have asked a few more questions ; I ca n't remember now . |
| 2 | I hope I may have given a few ideas and if anyone makes their fortune and buys a villa in the South of France , will you invite me for a holiday , please ? |
| 3 | ‘ I may have got a better deal by moving to Australia , and I still have ambitions to play there . |
| 4 | Do you consider that I may have committed a disciplinary offence ? |
| 5 | I may have had a foolish mother but at least she was there . |
| 6 | I may have had a few words with her , but that 's all . ’ |
| 7 | I MAY have had a sheltered upbringing , but to me gin has always been one of the most sophisticated of drinks . |
| 8 | You may have made a genuine mistake or misrepresented a situation . |
| 9 | You may have done a good job on your own patch but you can not clear the entire neighbourhood . |
| 10 | Now , if you were out and about at about ten o'clock last night you may have seen a greenish glow in the sky . |
| 11 | Make contact with the so-called " special clinic " ( department of genito-urinary medicine ) at your local hospital if you have any reason whatever to suspect that you may have contracted a venereal disease . |
| 12 | Assuming Melanie 's aunt did move from Cherry Cottage , she may have left a forwarding address with the new owners . ’ |
| 13 | Her publications list appears to consist of only two papers , but she may have had a greater influence than this suggests ( J. White , personal communication ) . |
| 14 | She may have cried a good deal without understanding why . |
| 15 | She may have put a brave face on it . |
| 16 | We may have met a long time ago at Rotherfield when I was on a weekend outing from school , but I would n't expect you to remember — it was at least 10 years ago and I ca n't imagine I was a memorable schoolgirl ! |
| 17 | We may have discovered a statistical effect but do not understand how it operates ; the brute fact that people who have experienced unemployment are more rebellious in spirit does not itself explain why this occurs ( see diagram ) . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | There 's concern they may have copied a similar incident , screened on the television series ’ The Bill ’ , just the day before . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | For all I know they may have been part-time MPs , or they may have had a limited electorate to represent . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The similarity of their design to cup-and-ring patterns is striking and suggests that they may have had a ritual function . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Jack 's ‘ going with someone ’ , as Karen Black put it , was still Mimi , a relationship which had survived all predictions ; and , though it may have stopped a few magic moments between him and Black , it did not prevent an entanglement with another of his co-stars , Susan Anspach . |
| 28 | It may have had a certain validity , especially in Scotland with its constellation of key organizations within or close to Glasgow . |
| 29 | It may have had a different meaning in a different place ( e.g. " cot " means a child 's bed in British English , but also a bed for adults in Indian English ) , or at a different time ( e.g. " gentle " used to carry the meaning of " upper class " , as in " gentry " , but which now can be used as an approving description — something like " sensitive " — of anyone 's character ) . |
| 30 | It may have provided a perfect ‘ apprenticeship ’ for building a movie empire . |