Example sentences of "[pers pn] may have [verb] an [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | You may have cancelled an appointment , disappointing your friend , who now complains loudly and aggressively that you are an uncaring suit-yourself sort , whose commitment to friendship is purely selfish . |
2 | Certainly she was desperately trying to raise money , and one John Crosse , with whom she may have had an affair , was involved . |
3 | She was probably prepared to trust the cardinal archbishop when he undertook to guarantee her son 's safety and , even if she had doubts , she may have preferred an arrangement involving Bourgchier to the risk of forcing Gloucester into unilateral action . |
4 | She was probably prepared to trust the cardinal archbishop when he undertook to guarantee her son 's safety and , even if she had doubts , she may have preferred an arrangement involving Bourgchier to the risk of forcing Gloucester into unilateral action . |
5 | That 's why I would expect to see and we planned to some extent , we may have under-planned an increase in costs . |
6 | I may now have an inkling of what has happened to me over the last few years ; I may have lined up a few suspects , even tentatively put my finger on ‘ who done it ’ ; I may have my own private detectives working alongside the regular police , and we may have made an arrest or two , but the file has not been closed . |
7 | For instance , departure timings may change , a hotel may close down or overbook , we may have to amend an itinerary , or sales of that holiday may not reach a level which would be economical for us to operate . |
8 | They realize they may have missed an event . |
9 | So in the past , when we were not shielded from moonlight , it may have had an effect . |
10 | So how he came to be carrying a cannister of CS gas is being invistigated … he may have had an accomplice . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | Prior to Theology , he may have pursued an Arts course when he was a young man . |
14 | He may have provided an escape route along Stane Street to Bosham Harbour . |