Example sentences of "[pron] may have have a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I may have had a foolish mother but at least she was there . |
| 2 | I may have had a few words with her , but that 's all . ’ |
| 3 | I MAY have had a sheltered upbringing , but to me gin has always been one of the most sophisticated of drinks . |
| 4 | Another complaint was that the trial judge failed to give the jury any warning about the evidence of Zaidie and Matadial as witnesses who may have had a purpose of their own to serve or whose evidence could be tainted by an improper motive . |
| 5 | We made sure that er on each occasion er we reached a figure or a set of figures that would be mutually acceptable to ask the colleague or colleagues and , and then it was registered in the minutes as a , so we could refer back to er any cases er that were similar and that then made life easier for the shop stewards er who may have had a recurrence of the same problem . |
| 6 | Her publications list appears to consist of only two papers , but she may have had a greater influence than this suggests ( J. White , personal communication ) . |
| 7 | Clearly they failed to bring about disarmament , though they may have had a contributory effect on the decision to suspend tests in 1958 and later on the partial test ban treaty . |
| 8 | For all I know they may have been part-time MPs , or they may have had a limited electorate to represent . |
| 9 | The similarity of their design to cup-and-ring patterns is striking and suggests that they may have had a ritual function . |
| 10 | They may have had a function in aiding the picking out of broken threads on the loom . |
| 11 | Later these people reached all the inhabited areas of the Pacific and possibly America , it having been argued that they may have had a considerable influence on the rain-forest peoples of the New World , evidence coming from great similarities between certain groups in Borneo and central America , similarities greater than between these peoples and their geographic neighbours . |
| 12 | It may have had a certain validity , especially in Scotland with its constellation of key organizations within or close to Glasgow . |
| 13 | It may have had a more sinister purpose later , as it is now known as The Whipping Stone . |
| 14 | It may have had a different meaning in a different place ( e.g. " cot " means a child 's bed in British English , but also a bed for adults in Indian English ) , or at a different time ( e.g. " gentle " used to carry the meaning of " upper class " , as in " gentry " , but which now can be used as an approving description — something like " sensitive " — of anyone 's character ) . |
| 15 | He is generally unmarried , even though he may have had a shady past which included associating with women . |
| 16 | Most of the printed newsbooks now attributed to Mabbott 's editorship were probably not written by him , although there is some evidence that he may have had a hand in The Perfect Diurnall ( 1642–55 ) , edited by Samuel Pecke . |
| 17 | No , no he was n't well , I went to see her er I think he may have had a stroke and he ca n't get about very well at all |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Fair enough he may have had a very good reason for doing so but I thought that that would have been a typical apack erm he did say well you know I just want to run it by him , you know , just to make sure but you , you still needed to know why he thought that his accountant had to be involved . |