Example sentences of "[pron] might have [vb pp] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Did it occur to you that I might have made other arrangements ? ’ she said eventually . |
| 2 | I take it that I do n't like modern art and yet I can imagine that while being the same person that I am I might have liked modern art . |
| 3 | He said nothing for a few seconds , and I sensed that I might have unsettled this policeman . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But I might have taken other examples . |
| 6 | days ten eleven twelve , th thirteen , twelve days I might have taken this year already . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It comes as something of a shock , therefore , to realize that there were other areas , such as South Asia , more developed in technology and the articulation between production and trade , and highly dynamic in mercantile organization , which might have possessed equal potential to have become the centre for an industrial revolution , if these factors were indeed the primary causative variables ( Perlin 1983 ) . |
| 9 | It was once thought that the Chardonnay vine was brought to Champagne from Cyprus by knights returning from the Crusades , which might have provided some sort of answer , but this theory has since been discredited . |
| 10 | Officials from all US exchanges have thwarted further derivatives industry regulation which might have entailed higher costs and lost business to overseas exchanges . |
| 11 | There were still those in the skilled , supervisory , and managerial groups , who might have sought alternative employment and stood a better chance than the majority of finding it , who chose instead to take early retirement . |
| 12 | " Shakespeare " denotes someone who might have had any number of different characteristics . |
| 13 | Contemplating the others who might have shared this infinity of delight with him was like probing an open wound . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 ? ’ |
| 15 | None who might have carried that wish to the length of killing her . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Too many people had resented her abrupt intrusion onto the London society circuit , and while she might have gained some measure of respectability , she knew the resentment remained . |
| 19 | Exactly thirty minutes later , Shannon packed the last two brushes into an already crammed hold-all and glanced quickly round the small room , checking for anything she might have missed first time round . |
| 20 | ‘ Poor thing , ’ she might have said another time , but now any sympathy she had for the machine was swamped by her fears for her children . |
| 21 | She might have had other irons in the fire as well . |
| 22 | Alternatively , she might have published that material at a more propitious time . |
| 23 | She might have sat all afternoon , nibbling and stuporous , exhausted but not sleepy ; but the glazier finally came down from the upper floor , cheerfully announcing that all was now right and tight and he would be on his way . |
| 24 | Well I think that a number of you might have seen that definition of quality . |
| 25 | ‘ Thought you might have seen some friends of mine , ’ he continued with his mouth full . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | You might have had three women in there with you during the night . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I think you might have got this drink from the wrong tray , ’ she said to him now . |
| 29 | You might have thought this sort of behaviour was all over . |
| 30 | 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 . |