Example sentences of "may have thought " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may have thought I had thrown them away , or merely , forgotten about them , and I was entitled to do either , since you explicitly said I was to do exactly whit I liked with them , that you washed your hands of them completely . |
| 2 | Conceivably he may have thought in 1921–2 that previous peasant intransigence was now receiving its just reward . |
| 3 | In October , she and the baby moved to London to join her former boyfriend , Danny Palmer , also then 16 , who may have thought he was the father . |
| 4 | You may have thought the film Animal House was a joke , but in the US college fraternities are a serious business . |
| 5 | ‘ You may have thought that things had gotten to be as bad as they could get , but Mr Koons ' show proves you were wrong , ’ wrote one particularly shrill reviewer . |
| 6 | Mr Duckworth said : ‘ I hope outside shareholders think it is a good deal though one or two may have thought we should have waited . ’ |
| 7 | In any case the French army had , by 1851 , become accustomed to changes of regime , so that many may have thought one more would make little difference . |
| 8 | He had brought three British Labour MPs to Derry and may have thought that the opportunity to expose the RUC should not be wasted . |
| 9 | Whatever John 's mother may have thought about his likely lack of application when he wanted to study music , once he decided to learn ballet he took it seriously and must have worked hard to make up for a late start . |
| 10 | As she was a devout Anglican , somewhat callously I may have thought that death to her was not the ‘ end ’ it might be to others . |
| 11 | Whatever the complications may have been , and whatever those theatre nurses may have thought , the fact was that Kirsty had suffered no physical ill-effects once she was over the post-operative period . |
| 12 | The boys may have thought of tacking Countdown 's Richard Whiteley on to the start of Neil Young 's ‘ Only Love Can Break Your Heart ’ ( last year 's most natural shuffle beat appropriation ) but the show 's all Stephanie 's . |
| 13 | You may have thought you already knew all this , but it is hard to think of anyone who has put the case as plainly , or elucidated it with such concrete examples . |
| 14 | To be fair to John he may have thought he was on an already completed route , but the absence of the first bolt , a well established sign of a ‘ projet ’ , should have been respected . |
| 15 | Until recently , many of those women who experience a light vaginal discharge at certain times between their periods may have thought that they were the only ones to have this problem . |
| 16 | From large carpet areas to those tricky areas which you may have thought impossible to get really clean — the Steamatic enables you to clean them all with the minimum of fuss . |
| 17 | As for those stubborn areas which you may have thought beyond the reach of any cleaner — the stained or mouldy grouting round the back of the basin , the bath and the shower , plugholes and taps — you 'll find that the Steamatic 's powerful cleaning action makes a tremendous difference . |
| 18 | He recognized that this was contrary to the opinion of the pope and others at the papal court , but he put it forward as his own : ‘ others certainly may have thought of it , but I received it from no one ’ . |
| 19 | READERS may have thought there was a superficial likeness to the mug-shot on page 5 , but this is not the Editor but a ‘ guest ’ and a quite intrepid aviator . |
| 20 | Readers may have thought his front page squibs came from the pen of a dominant shareholder . |
| 21 | He may have felt nervous about having plundered Calcutta or he may have thought he had done enough to show who was master in Bengal , but in any case he withdrew and paid the Company some compensation for its losses . |
| 22 | He may have thought that his father spoke the truth in October 1922 , ‘ We are all British , not American citizens . ’ |
| 23 | And it was hardly one which appealed to Emperor Bao Dai , no matter what one may have thought of his political maturity . |
| 24 | But the two communications from " Ella , typelifter " in 1886 do sound authentic and throw a little light on what women may have thought about the central issues here : their being employed as cheap labour and the question of skill . |
| 25 | Not free at all , as others may have thought , but difficult ; a life lived in the shadow of death . |
| 26 | He may have thought his every phrase |
| 27 | Subdued housing market turnover since the end of 1988 has also made it difficult for borrowers to clear arrears by trading down , and some may have thought it in their best interests to default once their mortgages exceeded the value of their homes — although the borrower in this situation still remains legally liable for any outstanding debt after the property has been sold . |
| 28 | Anyway , whatever I may have thought about his methods of bringing it about , I 'll always be grateful to him for my wife ! ’ |
| 29 | Dear Colleague , With the passage of the Animals ( Scientific Procedures ) Bill in 1986 , we may have thought that the animal rights movement would have become less militant and that scientific research would be subject to less disruption . |
| 30 | They may have thought they were putting it out |