Example sentences of "[vb base] he may [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His determination to deny them the ‘ improved living and working conditions , proper social protection , dialogue between management and labour ’ aspired to by the Maastricht social chapter suggest he may have had a different community in mind from the sort outside the gates of Timex . |
| 2 | They say he may strike again and they 're appealing to anyone who recognises this picture to contact their local police station . |
| 3 | If he survived the war and should ever read these words , I hope he may resume contact after nearly fifty years . |
| 4 | Well it 's a very very competitive race I I I suppose he may have the best chance but there are an awful lot with good chances . |
| 5 | ‘ I believe he may have been trying to contact me . |
| 6 | Detetives still have n't been able to build up a description of the attacker but they believe he may have worked with horses in the past . |
| 7 | His parents believe he may have wanted the money to buy a house . |
| 8 | Police hunting a man who raped a woman at Swindon college have widened their search because they believe he may have moved out of town . |
| 9 | Friends believe he may take the post rather than wait for a by-election to resume his career . |
| 10 | There are some who would question his recording of details on site suggesting that in his eagerness to move on to the next find he may neglect to tidy up the details left behind . |
| 11 | I mean he may know |
| 12 | But an object contemplated for its beauty alone spontaneously attracts the spectator and rouses him to expand and intensify his awareness of it ; and however much or little trust he may put in the formulation of aesthetic standards , he evaluates it by his reaction at the unsustainable height of concentration when he is responding to all his information at once . |
| 13 | capital allowances — which I think he may want — it could have a damaging effect on the quality of investment decisions , which are at present made for good , sound , commercial reasons ? |
| 14 | ‘ And I think he may have found my jewel box upstairs , but of course I have n't been up there to see . |
| 15 | ‘ He quit after a fairly short time — I think he may have done it for only two terms . |
| 16 | I think he may have in mind the view advanced by John Stuart Mill in An Examination of Sir William Hamilton 's Philosophy . |
| 17 | We think he may have left Paris , but no one 's really very sure . ’ |
| 18 | There is no simple answer but I think he may have halted a destructive spiral . |
| 19 | I think He may have heard me . ’ |
| 20 | I think he may have a vocation — that 's confidential , of course . ’ |
| 21 | I think he may have been responsible for her unhappiness . |
| 22 | No , no he was n't well , I went to see her er I think he may have had a stroke and he ca n't get about very well at all |
| 23 | I think he may have planted the idea that I was after her , for badness ’ sake . |
| 24 | ‘ Jesus ’ as we have him may have been filtered through the patriarchal world which remembered him and wrote about him ( if the biblical authors were male ) . |
| 25 | These omissions and transpositions indicate that Levi could well have kept to himself any plan he may have formed to end his life . |