Example sentences of "[pron] might have [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Because if you try to do anything so misguided I might have to give a Press interview to explain just why I got under your skin so badly ! ’
2 Although I might have layered a lot of notes on one part it 's still basically , say , a D minor chord or whatever .
3 I might have made a mistake to turn down offers when they were there .
4 Given a set of circumstances — and of course more height — I might have completed a turn onto an adjacent runway , but from low down and with a suitable field ahead I should have treated the reduction as an engine failure , and made an early decision to land .
5 If I 'd done English , geography and history , I might have done a lot better , but they just did n't seem to bother about you if you were doing science — perhaps it was an old-fashioned school .
6 Looking back , there have been occasions when I might have had a bit more foresight , particularly when this chap rang me from Newcastle one day raving about this brilliant young footballer he wanted me to look after .
7 I might have had a word with him if I 'd caught him .
8 I might have had a chance if the fates had n't conspired against me , but my left leg 's still giving me some stick .
9 I might have had a hat-trick and I wanted that .
10 Yet it was as though that night , in the moonlight , in the silence , as though even the work , the months of steady labour , had only been an illusion , only the dream of work , the dream of progress , and I had not even begun and never would begin , though at different moments in my life I might have had the illusion that I had begun and even , perhaps , finished .
11 This accords with a remark Johnson made to Boswell as they drove towards Aberdeen : ‘ I might have taken the side of the savage equally , had anybody else taken the side of the shopkeeper . ’
12 I think I might have caught a cold . ’
13 I might have to stretch a point for Rory Collins . ’
14 I might have to cut the cleaners ' hours down a bit , ’ says Chris .
15 Thought I might have got a chance at Pat Weaver , but you 're too efficient for me , Mister Doyle . ’
16 Still mazed with whatever the drug was she had taken , I might have got the truth out of her .
17 Of course , had Helmut not left for Zurich but stayed at Park Terrace , and had the situation between the three of us then become something of a tussle , I might have lacked the courage finally to pack up and return to Paris with Jean-Claude .
18 If it was definitely linked to her death I might have to break a promise — which I 'd hate doing because the repercussions for the crew could be very serious — but it 's too vague to go to Foucard and run risks with other people 's livelihoods . ’
19 Maybe Dundee will be interested in players here , or I might have to break the club 's transfer record to get him . ’
20 I might have left the discotheque and I 'd have never met that man .
21 Anyway , I got through this tricky interval , and even the sea co-operated for once , coming in just after the explosion and sweeping away any tell-tale tracks I might have left an hour or more before Diggs arrived from the village to inspect the scene .
22 A couple of weeks ago , I might have expected the Tories to scrape through to election victory with such a Budget .
23 ‘ I felt I might have passed the pair in front of me on the last lap but what was the point , I had no chance of winning and this is a tough circuit . ’
24 However if evil were merely a hateful and external power without echo in the hearts of the good , then someone might have to take the Ring to the Cracks of Doom , but it need not be Frodo : Gandalf could be trusted with it , while whoever went would have only to distrust his enemies , not his friends and not himself .
25 My hon. Friend has commented in detail on the transcript of that hearing , including the statements by the witness , Mr. Farrell ; the differences of opinion about the handwriting on the receipt ; whether someone might have stolen the receipt book and forged the receipt ; unsupported allegations about previous examples of Mr. Brand 's paperwork being missing ; and the apparent lack of follow-up to the mother 's original letter .
26 Earlier , and none of them might have survived the ritual of the tunnel of terror …
27 BOMB-PROOF litter bins , which might have limited the Warrington IRA bomb horror , are being developed by the Royal Ordnance factories .
28 To the south , across a wasteland which might have become a park , is the House of Science .
29 They are questions about the procedural advantages which could be derived from the extraordinary procedure , and which might have influenced the use of trusts instead of the parallel institutions of the civil law .
30 Although the port prospered in part , particularly as a base for privateering depredations on foreign ships , the dues which might have increased the town 's wealth were hard to collect , and attempts to extend port rights over much of the coastal plain met with little success .
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