Example sentences of "they may have [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Either of them may have seen the killer . |
| 2 | Since his privateering interests encouraged him to favour the continuance of war , they may have balanced the pension from Spain in forming his attitude to the peace negotiations . |
| 3 | They may have to ask the Hong Kong Union for financial assistance in order to summon a replacement from home . |
| 4 | The other monkeys might have been responding to a visual signal or they may have seen the leopard themselves . |
| 5 | They may have sacked the Chancellor but they 're still committed to capitalism and economic policy which is diametrically opposed to any form of such a justice . |
| 6 | He may well have been scorned , he may well have lost his job bad word may have got back to Rome , they may have sent the telegrams back to Caesar telling him all about Pilate , but it was n't sufficient reason for him rejecting Christ . |
| 7 | That is still the government 's public view , but it is understood that privately ministers have conceded they may have to change the law in three or four years . |
| 8 | They were sometimes the heads of administrative units known as hundreds — hundredal manors with some of the characteristics of a town , and they may have had the minster church , upon which the churches elsewhere on the estate were dependent . |
| 9 | But they may have to face the fact that their own view of his department 's policy needs are irrelevant to the main problem being tackled within it , or even that their own commitments lead in quite opposite directions to the ones being taken by those concerned with policy innovation in the department . |
| 10 | Er , if they say that er , they should be er , a balance or reserve put in by constituent authorities then we will have the money available to do that , if we did n't then they may have frozen the reserves that are already there and asked us to put some more money in as well . |
| 11 | I 'd written to them , and I feel they may have got the letter in time . ’ |
| 12 | Whatever they may have told the pollsters , there must have been countless voters who , as they finally confronted their choice , saw in their mind 's eye the image of a beaming Neil and Glenys standing at the door of Number 10 , and thought , dammit — prompting them to switch back to that decent , straightforward , reliable Mr Major . |