Example sentences of "may have been [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WE may have been leaked a world exclusive , incidentally , about a split in the Monster Raving Loonies ( for whom , incidentally , Screaming Lord Sutch is standing in three different seats . ) |
| 2 | He may have been looking a bit weary , but he was doing a splendid linking job and Whitton found it hard fill the gap . |
| 3 | I may have been called a pillock and a dickhead , but no one asked why I had tried to brain my companion . |
| 4 | This may be a genuine statement — in fact the seller 's own objective may have been to gain a foothold in the buyer 's business . |
| 5 | So be on your guard , and if you think you may have been sold a fake , report it to your local trading standards department immediately . |