Example sentences of "may [vb infin] [vb pp] [pers pn] a " in BNC.

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1 Under the energetic leadership of H. L. Dowbiggin , Inspector-General from 1913 to 1937 , the police gained sophistication which may have given them a relative advantage over some lawbreakers .
2 The International Publishers Association may have given us a pointer in the right direction with the publication this year of its Charter for the Reader .
3 A Celtic pantheon of gods whirled about my head , and I may have got them a bit mixed up here .
4 Not to mention our hospitaller who may have told us a pack of lies . ’
5 It may have taken me a long time to find out about him .
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