Example sentences of "he may have [verb] a " in BNC.

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1 He captured three quick wickets before Richards and Lloyd ( who passed 7,000 Test runs ) steadied the ship , but then had Richards lbw , although umpire Meyer later admitted that he may have made a mistake and had considered recalling the batsman .
2 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 .
3 Mike Phelan looked like he may have discovered a passage into the second round with a fierce drive which spun off a defender with the goalkeeper stranded .
4 He may have to wait a few years to enter a Tory Cabinet .
5 There is no simple answer but I think he may have halted a destructive spiral .
6 He may have created a settlement overseas which in turn owns an underlying company , which underlying company receives UK dividends .
7 And he may have to live a long time with the third .
8 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 .
9 It is eminently practical , and he thinks he may have started a trend .
10 And he may have taken a drink or two to steady his nerves .
11 He is generally unmarried , even though he may have had a shady past which included associating with women .
12 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 .
13 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
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 ‘ He 's circling again but if the undercarriage fails it looks as if he may have to make a crash landing .
18 The man got away but he may have left a vital clue .
19 He may have admitted a friend or relative , although that 's even more doubtful .
20 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 .
21 It was thought he may have set a match to it himself .
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