Example sentences of "may have [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | A report is aimed at a particular reader who is expecting and may have asked for facts , conclusions and recommendations . |
| 5 | The entire proceedings , including questions which the data collector may have asked for clarification during the search , were recorded on a sound recorder . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | There the Millers may have lived for a short while . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It may have rained for hours , but it made little difference to the River Lambourn . |
| 11 | Adam may have fallen for your charms , but I 've got a clear head and I 'm immune . ’ |
| 12 | It introduces the thought that in his speech as well as in his writing , Johnson understood that the essence of art lies in the perfect marriage of form and content , therefore , Boswell may have reached for an accuracy beyond sycophancy . |
| 13 | Some establishments may have applied for commendation but have yet to be assessed . |
| 14 | Thus , when the police officer comes to make his decision he must do so knowing of the defendant 's preference and any reason the defendant may have given for it . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Last year 's postal strike supplied a further motive , as I suspect it may have done for many other recent fax converts . |
| 17 | So although the machine may have run for eight minutes , it was not an uninterrupted eight minutes . |
| 18 | Charles 's reaction finally closed the door on any love Diana may have felt for him . |
| 19 | Such pity as she well may have felt for Ramsey in its distress , he has traduced and despoiled , and here we have no rights . |
| 20 | There have been occasional remarks that some players may have dallied for a time with what are known as recreational drugs . |
| 21 | She comes with the reluctant insouciance that says , ‘ You may have paid for me but you do n't own me . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | And whatever attractions Church and throne may have had for the peasantry , their hold on educated society was being slowly eroded . |
| 24 | Although these biases can not be refuted , in reality the staff completing the schedules tended to be those dealing with residents on a day to day basis , rather than home owners and managers , who might have been more concerned with the implications the results may have had for their establishment . |
| 25 | The first arises because at stage ( 2 ) delivery of the documents may not necessarily be matched by payment of the full price ; the agreement may have provided for payment by instalments and the seller will then retain a lien on the shares as an unpaid seller . |
| 26 | He may have died for nothing |
| 27 | But the r and K lines were cultured at different densities , so that selection on life-history traits other than late fecundity may also have differed between them and may have accounted for the decline in late fertility of the r -line females . |
| 28 | 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 ) . |
| 29 | This fantasy may have accounted for the arrogance of Conroy towards Queen Victoria . |
| 30 | Okay , so what acc what may have accounted for agriculture 's decline in relative terms in world trade ? |