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

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1 None who might have carried that wish to the length of killing her .
2 Alternatively , she might have published that material at a more propitious time .
3 That 's a win lose , you might 've lost that time but you 're gon na get it back another time .
4 Well I think that a number of you might have seen that definition of quality .
5 We might like to have that distinction in mind as these lectures continue .
6 Words we might employ to describe that experience would include authenticity , first-handedness , liveliness and immediacy .
7 If one sixth of the money invested and lost outside the Empire , in South America alone , for example , had been given to Ireland , there might have continued that cooperation between her and England which provided British history with Burke , Goldsmith , Wellington , Boyle , Roberts , French , Beatty and Carson .
8 They might have added that government 's encouragement of home ownership , already alluded to , had reinforced the need for credit .
9 How often do you dump a file on someone 's desk with a Post-it note on it saying ‘ do this ’ and get it back — okay — competently done but with no knowledge how it might have disrupted that person 's other work or even if they liked doing it enough to want to do more ?
10 If you then say , ah well it might expand to double that number or to five thousand , as was postulated , that then begs an even larger question , because in my submission you would then go back and revisit the alternatives of , for example , should you expand Tadcaster , which has not the best facilities in its town centre , er to quote but one example of er viability and sustainability of towns .
11 So if some 500 million years ago , an astronaut , from some other planet passed near the earth , he could easily have noticed in the blue seas , a few new and mysterious turquoise shapes ; and from them he might have guessed that life on earth had really started .
12 Rufus wondered if he might have invented that part because he had so much to do with wombs in the course of his own daily life .
13 He did not flatter himself that he might have had that effect on her , but he did wonder what course their liaison would take .
14 Clare was the great exception , an articulate peasant , and he might have described that world for us in all its natural beauty and its deep associations for the human race — twelve or thirteen centuries of unbroken continuity — but he came almost too late for this kind of England .
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