Example sentences of "may have [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | And the traditional Conservative chairman 's bash at Central Office may have to go on without the chairman : Chris Patten , busy in Bath , may not get back in time to drink with his team . |
2 | " I may have to go back to the bank for an hour or so — there 'll be all sorts of things piling up on my desk . |
3 | Unless you take a different view , our own preference would be to pursue the question of a travelling display as actively as we can , recognising , however , that if it does not prove feasible for reasons of finance and other resources to mount such a display in the foreseeable future we may have to fall back on the reduced-size Barrel Vault display . |
4 | Some cannon-balls may have gone through between the masts , but clearly most had not . |
5 | We may have moved on from the steel nib and the blackboard , but are we not educating our children for much the same reasons as we were 50 years ago ? |
6 | Konings suggests that the ‘ Lanistes-dwellers ’ may have moved out from the rocks to a habitat with less competition . |
7 | There is a small triangular park behind it and the crowd may have spilled out from the Great Hall . |
8 | We may have zeroed in on the difference , but so what ? |
9 | However , it looks like IXI may have to get down into the water to try and tickle this baby out of the flow , as DEC has its own problems to iron out . |
10 | Nick Cusack may have to drop out of the squad because of injury . |
11 | He may have shimmied on to the scene a little late , but watch out for his name on the smoochy compilations for Christmas 1993 . |
12 | By that time , the footballers of Halifax Town may have climbed back into the big league . |
13 | Toni gets to work ALEC GILROY may have walked out on the Rovers Return , but 16-year-old Toni Canning is more than ready to take over from Britain 's favourite landlord . |
14 | At the end of every chapter there 's a review of what you 've just learned and a few questions to check that it 's really sunk in ( and a mini glossary of any new terms/jargon you may have picked up on the way . |
15 | I may have taken off in the wrong direction entirely . |
16 | You may have nodded off in the bus on your way to a dusty ruin where street-traders pestered you until you retired to the coach in a huff , but in print you will have enjoyed the delights of a ‘ bustling street market ’ , selling ‘ delightful local crafts ’ in the shadow of ‘ one of the forgotten wonders of the world ’ . |