Example sentences of "he may have [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He may have made a cool £250,000 out of writing George Michael 's biography , but he was cute enough to identify a demand for the tome , and lucky George did n't want to rip him off for the proceeds . |
| 2 | He may have to wait a few years to enter a Tory Cabinet . |
| 3 | There is no simple answer but I think he may have halted a destructive spiral . |
| 4 | And he may have to live a long time with the third . |
| 5 | Alternatively , he may have represented a powerful aristocratic family descended from neither the Deiran nor the Bernician royal family and which was aspiring to royal power for the first time , though the likelihood is that some such affinity was at least claimed . |
| 6 | He may have had a sixth sense about the presence of some stranger in the house ; more likely he saw some physical evidence — a coat , a hat — belonging to a person he knew . |
| 7 | His determination to deny them the ‘ improved living and working conditions , proper social protection , dialogue between management and labour ’ aspired to by the Maastricht social chapter suggest he may have had a different community in mind from the sort outside the gates of Timex . |
| 8 | He is generally unmarried , even though he may have had a shady past which included associating with women . |
| 9 | The man got away but he may have left a vital clue . |
| 10 | In addition to the mycoplasma , Taylor-Robinson thinks he may have found a new anaerobic bacterium ( one that can not live in the presence of oxygen ) which also seems to be associated with NGU . |