Example sentences of "he may have [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He captured three quick wickets before Richards and Lloyd ( who passed 7,000 Test runs ) steadied the ship , but then had Richards lbw , although umpire Meyer later admitted that he may have made a mistake and had considered recalling the batsman . |
| 2 | He may have made a cool £250,000 out of writing George Michael 's biography , but he was cute enough to identify a demand for the tome , and lucky George did n't want to rip him off for the proceeds . |
| 3 | Mike Phelan looked like he may have discovered a passage into the second round with a fierce drive which spun off a defender with the goalkeeper stranded . |
| 4 | There is no simple answer but I think he may have halted a destructive spiral . |
| 5 | He may have created a settlement overseas which in turn owns an underlying company , which underlying company receives UK dividends . |
| 6 | Alternatively , he may have represented a powerful aristocratic family descended from neither the Deiran nor the Bernician royal family and which was aspiring to royal power for the first time , though the likelihood is that some such affinity was at least claimed . |
| 7 | It is eminently practical , and he thinks he may have started a trend . |
| 8 | And he may have taken a drink or two to steady his nerves . |
| 9 | He is generally unmarried , even though he may have had a shady past which included associating with women . |
| 10 | Most of the printed newsbooks now attributed to Mabbott 's editorship were probably not written by him , although there is some evidence that he may have had a hand in The Perfect Diurnall ( 1642–55 ) , edited by Samuel Pecke . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | He may have had a sixth sense about the presence of some stranger in the house ; more likely he saw some physical evidence — a coat , a hat — belonging to a person he knew . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Fair enough he may have had a very good reason for doing so but I thought that that would have been a typical apack erm he did say well you know I just want to run it by him , you know , just to make sure but you , you still needed to know why he thought that his accountant had to be involved . |
| 15 | Thomas Garvine ( possibly an early version of the surnames Garven and Girvan common in Ayrshire at present ) is thought to have been born about 1685 , in or near Kilmarnock , although the Earl of Loudoun 's intervention on his behalf suggests that he may have had an Irvine valley connection . |
| 16 | In association with his technically minded relative , Thomas ( the exact relationship is not known ) , he may have had an iron furnace and hammer-pond at Hamsell Farm , and possibly a smelter and perhaps a coining press in Isleworth at the end of the century . |
| 17 | He may have had an unfortunate experience with a highway engineer — |
| 18 | So how he came to be carrying a cannister of CS gas is being invistigated … he may have had an accomplice . |
| 19 | The man got away but he may have left a vital clue . |
| 20 | Prior to Theology , he may have pursued an Arts course when he was a young man . |
| 21 | He may have provided an escape route along Stane Street to Bosham Harbour . |
| 22 | He may have admitted a friend or relative , although that 's even more doubtful . |
| 23 | In addition to the mycoplasma , Taylor-Robinson thinks he may have found a new anaerobic bacterium ( one that can not live in the presence of oxygen ) which also seems to be associated with NGU . |
| 24 | It was thought he may have set a match to it himself . |