Example sentences of "may have [verb] an [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 A POLICEMAN shot twice in the back early today may have disturbed an IRA bomb plot , senior officers believe .
2 One corner of England 's dressing room may have resembled an Army field kitchen but this arrangement will now continue for the rest of the Test as England battle for a draw and try to stay fit and well .
3 The pair produced two eggs in their eyrie in Haweswater , Cumbria , but experts fear twitchers may have breached an exclusion zone set up by the RSPB .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 He may have provided an escape route along Stane Street to Bosham Harbour .
7 Prior to Theology , he may have pursued an Arts course when he was a young man .
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