Example sentences of "[pron] might have [verb] a [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 | I think I might have caught a cold . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I might have to stretch a point for Rory Collins . ’ |
| 12 | Thought I might have got a chance at Pat Weaver , but you 're too efficient for me , Mister Doyle . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | To the south , across a wasteland which might have become a park , is the House of Science . |
| 15 | Furthermore , although there was no shortage of surgical complications which might have formed a focus for psychological discontent , the researchers noted that ‘ even those who had experienced complications tended to underrate their seriousness and to express satisfaction . ’ |
| 16 | In addition to regulating the lives of the Christian subjects of the Merovingian kings — and also to circumscribing the activities of the Jews , the one recognized religious minority in the kingdom — the bishops at least tried to monopolize the local centres and objects of devotion , which might have presented a focus of religious power outside their control . |
| 17 | As a boy Waugh had longed to go to Eton , which might have made a radical of him and where he might have met Orwell , and did not ; his first aristocratic wife left him after a year , and for an Etonian ; and his sojourns in a great Elizabethan house in Worcestershire as a young man , the guest of a friend , allowed him to glimpse a world of moats , battlements and rolling parkland from which in spirit he never awoke . |
| 18 | All of these 7 patients had had cerebral birth injuries which might have induced a shift of dominance to the right hemisphere . |
| 19 | For that matter , Odysseus himself might have borrowed a trick or two from the rabbit hero , for he is very old and was never at a loss for a trick to deceive his enemies . |
| 20 | ‘ I never saw one thing she wanted that did not sell , ’ but nonetheless insisted that this undisciplined approach was unacceptable for a customer trying to furnish a house , who might have kept a sample for six weeks only to find she could not reorder the same fabric . |
| 21 | Really to protect members of the management team who might have made a decision . |
| 22 | Michael Banks had been a man who inspired love , but even so Charles could produce quite a list of people who might have had a grudge against him . |
| 23 | Unfortunately , I think they are few in number ; they are mainly young intellectuals who might have had a career but now can not . |
| 24 | He continued to stare at the ground as she added , ‘ I 'm just wondering who might have had a motive for killing him . ’ |
| 25 | Traders who might have started a line in meal for the populace would not even think of it , knowing that the government was always ready to step in and depress the price . |
| 26 | Dalgliesh 's wife had n't wanted to be with her mother , she had wanted to be with him , had wanted it with such intensity that he had wondered afterwards whether she might have felt a premonition . |
| 27 | She touched the stone of the walls as she might have touched a cheek , deliberately and lingeringly . |
| 28 | Her brother Howard said : ‘ We believe she might have suffered a heart attack , despite her age . ’ |
| 29 | The police suspected that it was an inside job and promptly arrested the dismissed worker , for no reason other than that she might have borne a grudge against her erstwhile employer . |
| 30 | you do n't know the full story , she might have had a bit of a |