Example sentences of "[pron] may have [verb] for [art] " in BNC.

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1 He describes the toy drawer exactly , from the rubber sealing rings out of old tobacco tins , kept to make catapults ( which , with the string and the electric flex , were the principal binding agents in the mass ) , to the leaking paper bag of saltpetre ( which may have accounted for the choking smell ) .
2 Sometime in the near future you may have to go for an interview and therefore you will be asking yourself the following questions :
3 If you think the time may come when you may have to care for an elderly or disabled person in your home , there are also grants available for adapting housing .
4 Our shop at work has sold out of the Torygraph today , so we may have to wait for the latest standings .
5 As George Male points out : ‘ It was done to foil any over-confidence we may have had for the next game , for he knew the opposition would go all out against us after our big win .
6 If it is argued that sarvodaya is an unattainable ideal , and that in the end one may have to settle for the happiness or good of 51 per cent , it could be stated in reply , that it is infinitely better to strive for sarvodaya and fail to realize it , than to start out with a limited objective and attain it at the expense of an unfortunate minority .
7 Most of these , too , developed along existing paths , the paths that ran from village to village in Saxon times , though here and there they may have called for a new piece to complete the chain of paths .
8 But they may have to wait for a year , and maybe even two , before the brief , dramatic cycle can begin all over again .
9 He lived at Charing Cross in 1585 , in 1589–90 in Writtington , Essex , by 1596 he writes from ‘ my house in Hamsell Park , Sussex ’ , while early in the 1600s he may have lived for a time in Isleworth , Middlesex .
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