Example sentences of "may have [vb pp] [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blanche may have made up the prowling . |
| 2 | Even though the writer may have planned out the essay and a line of argument , this is not a very successful beginning . |
| 3 | The Gloucester coach Keith Richardson says that the week may have turned around the team 's season … the win over a strong bridgend side was very rewarding and it reflects the old Gloucester dog attitude … when they think there 's competition a match to be won they respond and come through … there 's a big league game against Northampton coming up on saturday and Gloucester need all the inspiration they can get to win |
| 4 | I may have cried down the telephone , but Mme Dragon would n't unbend . |
| 5 | The sceptic might , at this point , complain that while I may have sketched out the functionalist position , I have not provided any convincing arguments as to why one should believe it . |
| 6 | Stirling may have laid down the principles , but it was Lewes who had trained the men to put them into practice . |
| 7 | Vincent Cannistraro , chief of operations at the Central Intelligence Agency 's counter-terrorism centre at the time of the bombing , said there was evidence Iran may have hired out the operation to both Libya and to the Syria-based Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command ( PFLP-GC ) . |
| 8 | Visitors are thoroughly searched before they are allowed in to the jail which houses two hundred remand prisoners , killers , I R A terrorists and rapists , and the investigation will examine whether a prison officer may have brought in the phone . |
| 9 | Flowers , a surprise call-up a month ago when the squads for the World Cup double in Poland and Norway were announced , so much looked the part as Chris Woods 's stand-in that he may have leapfrogged up the goalkeeping queue . |
| 10 | ‘ We think someone may have picked up the jeans innocently , and maybe now thinks it 's too late to come forward , ’ a Norfolk police spokesman said . |
| 11 | The UK 's Clean Air Acts , which forced many homes to replace coal-burning fires with smokeless fuel , gas or electric versions , may have cleaned up the smog from out cities , but the utilitarian heaters and radiators that replaced those fires seemed to take some of the cheer from our lives . |