Example sentences of "may [verb] [vb pp] [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | De Niro may have loosened up a little recently but he 's still not happy with the press attention that stardom brings . |
| 2 | Alternatively he may have sent out a notice of appointment . |
| 3 | Erm and I may have slowed down a little today , I do n't know I should have timed it again . |
| 4 | I may now have an inkling of what has happened to me over the last few years ; I may have lined up a few suspects , even tentatively put my finger on ‘ who done it ’ ; I may have my own private detectives working alongside the regular police , and we may have made an arrest or two , but the file has not been closed . |
| 5 | Money may have disappeared down a black hole ( the budget was $40m according to Hurd , though industry sources put it nearer $50m ) , but it has all been spent on spectacle , not marquee names : Ed Harris ( from Jacknife ) and Mary Elizabeth Mastroantonio star as an oil-rig foreman and the project engineer , both brought in to rescue a striken nuclear submarine . |
| 6 | An individual may have set up a UK settlement with a view to mitigating inheritance tax . |
| 7 | ( a ) Moving trust property abroad A non-domiciled settlor may have set up a settlement but the settled property may nevertheless be located in the United Kingdom . |