Example sentences of "they may [verb] [verb] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They are using the computer to gauge who would be suitable to attend certain meetings : they may want to exclude some of them . ’ |
| 2 | they may want to start some day . |
| 3 | Obviously he was worried lest they may have sustained some damage by coming into contact with my nasty hard ribs . |
| 4 | But his reservations outweigh his praise : ‘ They may have done some good in creating interest in two people who 've made major innovations in twentieth-century music , but they 've also given a negative impression : that the people involved in this music have serious flaws in their personalities . |
| 5 | They may have seen some dangers in Methodism which were not in fact there . |
| 6 | They may have received some college training , participated in in-service training provided by government agencies or employers , or received no specific training for their jobs . |
| 7 | That they may have obtained some of their supplies of ivory from that quarter is suggested by finds of this material at the intermediate entrepot of Bahrain . |
| 8 | To pay the wages , they may have to realise some of their assets . |
| 9 | Even on ‘ Brad ’ — not the most excitable jockey — they may have recorded some memorable figures . |
| 10 | So they may have planted some more damning ‘ evidence ’ somewhere in my flat . |
| 11 | They may have had some basis in reality because bones of a large primate 3.5 metres tall and weighing 800 pounds , found in caves in southern China , date back to over 300,000 years ago at the time Homo Erectus was still alive . |
| 12 | These may have been used for normal , secular water supply , or they may have had some cult use . |
| 13 | It is a defensible pattern in what might be called ‘ low-theory ’ fields , where people can learn to practise in some way and with some success without any theoretical preparation for what they are doing , although they may have had some relevant training at a lower level . |
| 14 | Er they may have had some inkling , but you know they might have applied for a timings , you know it suddenly comes . |
| 15 | They may have had some children . |
| 16 | All of a sudden our theories looked as though they may have had some foundation . |
| 17 | If those who work in the media wish to enjoy the freedom desired for them by the Royal Commission — the freedom to publish facts and opinions which are in the public interest — they may have to forgo some of the comparative freedom they enjoy to publish facts and opinions which are not . |
| 18 | During or after such courses they may have acquired some additional external diplomas in organ-playing conducting , harmony and counterpoint . |
| 19 | Alternatively , they may have experienced some risk , but only the lower levels which characterize the flat lower part of the relationship shown in Figure 3.3 . |
| 20 | They may help to dispel some of the arrogant delusions prevalent in the country . |