Example sentences of "he might have " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thought occurred once again to Henry that someone who was n't him might have a sexual interest in his wife . |
| 2 | This skimpy description is not unusual in a survey , and the missing positive evaluation he might have made is only implied in his choice of the sculpture for inclusion in his book . |
| 3 | He might have been obeyed . |
| 4 | He might have done , too . |
| 5 | When I saw no one in the middle of the room , which had been full of music and smoke and pungent with the smell of hashish , I thought he might have forgotten to turn off the music before he went to sleep . |
| 6 | He might have listened to complaints of how stifling an aunt could be when one wanted to wander around London alone , or how one got sick in Venice or Paris , but he could only touch an elbow with mock sympathy or pat a sea-sprayed hand . |
| 7 | She thought he might have meant a New York accent , but she was from Los Angeles and would n't have tried anyway . |
| 8 | Legend has it that Rawlins remembered the lot although yesterday he confessed he might have forgotten one . |
| 9 | Sentencing R v Barney ; CA ( Crim Div ) ( Bingham LJ , Ognall , McKinnon JJ ) ; 3 Oct 1989 A judge was in error in implying that , had a defendant been in a position to pay compensation to his victim , he might have received a shorter sentence than that in fact imposed . |
| 10 | Barcelona had already been refused a penalty , but they soon drew level through Julio Salinas , the deceptively inelegant striker who has taken Gary Lineker 's reluctant ill-fitted role on the right wing and , on Saturday , made such a good job of it that he might have had a hat-trick but for Francisco Buyo 's reflexes . |
| 11 | Fussell records that German manufacturing output seemed to increase with every bomb dropped ; he might have added Albert Speer 's witty — and possibly accurate — comment that Allied bombing had actually improved productivity by destroying the bureaucracy 's files . |
| 12 | ‘ Make me an offer , ’ he might have been saying . |
| 13 | And I accept that he might have been upset but there are no polemics , so why destroy a great victory ? |
| 14 | ‘ But now I am concerned that he might have a different response this year ! ’ |
| 15 | If Cullam had been in a fit state to observe behaviour he might have thought the chief inspector bored or preoccupied . |
| 16 | In a similar way he might have been surprised by the figure he cut in prose or come to that in life . |
| 17 | He might have foreseen the problems that would ensue after their marriage , seen that there was a gulf between Charles and Diana that would be difficult to bridge and advised against it . |
| 18 | He might have died — there was so little of his old self left . |
| 19 | He was sufficiently confused by the English way of repressing emotion to characterise kind Hearts and Coronets as characteristic of Ealing movies in being emotionally quite frozen , ’ and so fastidiously determined to stay aloof from bland commercialism that he took no interest in the horror genre ( even though his later use of the Frankenstein story in his 1982 film Britannia Hospital suggests how much of a contribution he might have made in this area ) . |
| 20 | If a potential philanthropist did exist , he might have found it a deterrent that there was no established leadership to whom he could talk . |
| 21 | He might have made a doctor as well as a poacher … . |
| 22 | He might have rejected Malebranche 's extension of the arguments about relativity of perception from secondary to primary qualities ; he might have rejected the further conclusions Bayle said should be drawn from them . |
| 23 | He might have rejected Malebranche 's extension of the arguments about relativity of perception from secondary to primary qualities ; he might have rejected the further conclusions Bayle said should be drawn from them . |
| 24 | He might have been small but Roy Fredericks hit the ball exceptionally hard . |
| 25 | If it is stretching the imagination to describe any West Indian fast bowler as a gentle giant he is nevertheless mild-mannered and easy-going , and it is significant that while the likes of Croft and Marshall were doing unpleasant things to batsmen 's heads , the damage that Garner inflicted was mostly confined to arms and hands ; obviously any broken bone is bad and obviously he sent down his share of bouncers , but there was never the suggestion that he was using his physical advantages maliciously ; six feet eight inches 12 metres ) tall and weighing seventeen stones ( 108 kilograms ) , the prospect of the carnage he might have caused had he been of an aggressive nature hardly bears thinking about . |
| 26 | In a game that went to the fifth day only because many hours were lost to the weather — the actual playing time was two and two-thirds days — one was left wondering what he might have done had he been fully fit . |
| 27 | He might have been stumped on 44 but that was the only chance he gave . |
| 28 | ‘ If he 'd been he 'd been wearing one , he might have had an open casket . ’ |
| 29 | While no doubt Paul was thinking of the uncomplicated Christian message compared with the sophisticated philosophies of his day , and of the simple slaves and ordinary people who were joining the Christian family , he might have had the Lord 's background in mind as well . |
| 30 | He might have made a pass given time . |