Example sentences of "[pron] may have [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He describes the toy drawer exactly , from the rubber sealing rings out of old tobacco tins , kept to make catapults ( which , with the string and the electric flex , were the principal binding agents in the mass ) , to the leaking paper bag of saltpetre ( which may have accounted for the choking smell ) . |
| 2 | On 26 May Mozart appeared at court before the King of Prussia , a keen amateur cellist , who may have asked for some quartets . |
| 3 | Sometime in the near future you may have to go for an interview and therefore you will be asking yourself the following questions : |
| 4 | When the agency has produced specific proposals for your campaign — or anything else you may have asked for — the account executive will normally introduce them , and may present the entire proposals personally , without calling on other members of the group to cover their specialities . |
| 5 | You may have to wait for one or two things but you know like like copy sometimes but I did n't used to send them s erm er contracts in unless they had everything . |
| 6 | If you think the time may come when you may have to care for an elderly or disabled person in your home , there are also grants available for adapting housing . |
| 7 | She comes with the reluctant insouciance that says , ‘ You may have paid for me but you do n't own me . ’ |
| 8 | You may have to stay for your , who 's that ? |
| 9 | We will insure you for all sums which you may have to pay for death of , or injury to , other people or damage to their property , as a result of any accident involving any vehicle which your certificate of motor insurance4 allows you to drive or use . |
| 10 | We will insure you for all sums which you may have to pay for death of , or injury to , other people or damage to their property , as a result of any8 accident involving any vehicle which your certificate of motor insurance allows you to drive or use . |
| 11 | We will insure you for all sums which you may have to pay for death of , or injury to , other people or damage to their property , as a result of any accident involving any vehicle which your certificate of motor insurance allows you to drive or use . |
| 12 | We will insure you for all sums which you may have to pay for death of , or injury to , other people or damage to their property , as a result of any accident involving any vehicle which your certificate of motor insurance allows you to drive or use . |
| 13 | Whenever she wants to go out , she may have to arrange for someone to come and ‘ sit in ’ if her parent can not be left alone ; and suitable ‘ mother-sitters ’ are always much harder to find than ‘ baby-sitters , . |
| 14 | We may have to wait for much more advanced technology before we can do that . |
| 15 | Our shop at work has sold out of the Torygraph today , so we may have to wait for the latest standings . |
| 16 | As George Male points out : ‘ It was done to foil any over-confidence we may have had for the next game , for he knew the opposition would go all out against us after our big win . |
| 17 | If it is argued that sarvodaya is an unattainable ideal , and that in the end one may have to settle for the happiness or good of 51 per cent , it could be stated in reply , that it is infinitely better to strive for sarvodaya and fail to realize it , than to start out with a limited objective and attain it at the expense of an unfortunate minority . |
| 18 | Most of these , too , developed along existing paths , the paths that ran from village to village in Saxon times , though here and there they may have called for a new piece to complete the chain of paths . |
| 19 | They may have to settle for royalties which are lower than they would prefer . |
| 20 | something which they may have saved for themselves or perhaps by doing an odd job here and there , and working a day or two a week , which will not make too great demands on their strength , but will just keep the household going . |
| 21 | But they may have to wait for a year , and maybe even two , before the brief , dramatic cycle can begin all over again . |
| 22 | Many would regularly ‘ pop their ticker ’ — pawn the watch they may have bought for five pounds , on which they may have raised forty pounds or more in loans , as Melanie Tebbutt showed in Making Ends Meet ( 1983 ) . |
| 23 | It may have rained for hours , but it made little difference to the River Lambourn . |
| 24 | Last year 's postal strike supplied a further motive , as I suspect it may have done for many other recent fax converts . |
| 25 | He lived at Charing Cross in 1585 , in 1589–90 in Writtington , Essex , by 1596 he writes from ‘ my house in Hamsell Park , Sussex ’ , while early in the 1600s he may have lived for a time in Isleworth , Middlesex . |
| 26 | He may have asked for Norman help against his enemies in 1009 , and a continental source records that he at some point appealed to the French monarch Robert the Pious for assistance , conceivably in the hope that he could exert pressure on the Normans . |
| 27 | Finding out that the goods were stolen after receipt is not handling , but if the accused then , for example , sells them , he may have arranged for their disposal for the benefit of another . |
| 28 | He may have to settle for second this time . |
| 29 | He may have died for nothing |
| 30 | A commission of enquiry confirmed this assessment , and the Governor was withdrawn , though his period of service had in fact ended in the winter of 60/61 , so Tacitus would appear to magnify a grievance to make a political point in favour of his hero whose memoirs he may have used for his Annals . |