Example sentences of "[pron] might have [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Did it occur to you that I might have made other arrangements ? ’ she said eventually . |
| 2 | And we 've not had I I must say that over the years I might have had two cases perhaps when there 's been a query with regard to that in terms of packing . |
| 3 | But I might have taken other examples . |
| 4 | The North American economist , John Kenneth Galbraith , took a distinctly positive view , claiming that the crisis had shown both the revival of industrial technology and the reimposition of civic discipline as demonstrated by the pay pause , in the face of difficulties which might have led feebler nations to buckle under , or even lapse into military or other dictatorships . |
| 5 | Officials from all US exchanges have thwarted further derivatives industry regulation which might have entailed higher costs and lost business to overseas exchanges . |
| 6 | ‘ Can you think of anyone who might have paid large sums of money into your dad 's Swiss bank account in the last few months ? ’ |
| 7 | The building of the latter included the famous Talerddig cutting which , at the time , was the deepest cutting in the world and earned Davies recognition from his fellow civil engineers , who might have by-passed Welsh happenings in their field but for that . |
| 8 | One of the crucial issues in such studies is whether the time-lag allowed is the right one and had Walters allowed twenty instead of ten years , she might have reached different conclusions . |
| 9 | She might have had other irons in the fire as well . |
| 10 | The Kyalami Ranch was very much the sort of place where James liked relaxing : you might have to wait two hours for your dinner , but never a moment for the sun , and James is a basker , the deckchair his habitat . |
| 11 | ‘ Thought you might have seen some friends of mine , ’ he continued with his mouth full . |
| 12 | Sixty two only , you know , not that long after the War had ended and to the lament that nobody got killed you know you might have had more chances e of success if they had all got killed . |
| 13 | You might have had three women in there with you during the night . ’ |
| 14 | There was the inevitable council estate , the houses painted pale green , blue , pink , as in some child 's drawing , and then , round a bend in the lane where you might have expected open fields , half a dozen houses of 1950s or '60s provenance , lavishly appointed , glamorously gardened , with big garages and big cars outside them . |
| 15 | It is interesting that in his later years Wordsworth regarded himself as a statesman as much as a poet ; he certainly annoyed his womenfolk by talking politics incessantly with Robert Southey , though one might have expected two writers to bore the company with literary theory . |
| 16 | Yes , okay , then maybe you can mark that up then , and it might be that we , we might have to circulate all members again to see if they assume the situation of being able to undertake these particular requests er , about the visits . |
| 17 | Obviously we can not know the outcome of a new project , so let's consider how we might have proceeded 31 years ago . |
| 18 | No it 's all of it even the h and the w I think they might have lost some figures off of it at some time . |
| 19 | ‘ You mean to tell me , ’ Mrs Wilson interrupted , ‘ that you went round every secretarial agency in London asking about someone they might have employed fourteen years before , someone who most likely had changed her name , and you expected to succeed ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ They might have looked easy chances , but I 've missed easier than that . |
| 21 | In January Pressler , sponsor of a 1985 law under which the USA had suspended economic and military aid to Pakistan in October 1990 on the grounds that it might have developed nuclear weapons [ see p. 37764 ] , had claimed in January 1992 that Pakistan could manufacture two nuclear weapons [ see p. 38726 ] , anticipating a controversial admission by Pakistan 's Foreign Affairs Secretary , Shahryar Khan , who suggested that Pakistan had the expertise to assemble one nuclear device [ see pp. 38762-63 ] . |
| 22 | But even if the relative lack of profitable investment opportunities goes some way to explaining the poor investment rate , then if US business had felt itself under more pressure , it might have made greater efforts to improve technology . |
| 23 | Mark you , it might have worked both ways . |
| 24 | If you had knitted the ribbed welt , it might have knitted 300 rows in the same amount of time . |
| 25 | He might have lost those threads when he climbed over the rail during the search . ’ |
| 26 | You are n't seriously suggesting he might have spent fifteen years building up a simpleton 's profile , in case it would come in handy if ever he wanted to commit a crime ? ’ |