Example sentences of "[pers pn] might have have [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 I might have had a word with him if I 'd caught him .
3 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 .
4 I might have had a hat-trick and I wanted that .
5 Yet it was as though that night , in the moonlight , in the silence , as though even the work , the months of steady labour , had only been an illusion , only the dream of work , the dream of progress , and I had not even begun and never would begin , though at different moments in my life I might have had the illusion that I had begun and even , perhaps , finished .
6 you do n't know the full story , she might have had a bit of a
7 Perhaps if my maternal grandmother had had one on her nightly return from the candlewax factory here in Wiggly , Connecticut she might have had the energy to start her own bangle stall at weekends .
8 Now that she was to go , she knew that she might have had the pleasure of looking forward to going , instead of such long and cheerless debates and equivocations .
9 And it it it 's called the fog index but the thing that 's interesting about it is that I 've got , I 've got some interesting examples of fog indexes erm and you 'll get people like Churchill who sometimes made speeches and their fog index is quite small you 're going to use this you know example and they might have a fog , fog index that 's fine and what Anne and I are talking about with say something like the Telegraph or the Times or whatever , might have a fog index that people but this is because Churchill was very clear , very concise and going back to the original point about , or some of the original points about this , and I was mak raising these issues earlier this evening one of the great sadnesses that I have is that , is that when I first went into journalism the tabloids as we call them were incredibly well written beautifully styled , well researched and okay they might have been punchier and shorter and everything else , compared to the turning up the er the , the Times or whatever , but they were well written and you might have had , if you can put the fog index test , test on it you might have had a fog index of say six or seven compared to eleven on the Telegraph story , but it was still full of clarity like to read .
10 ‘ I thought perhaps you might have had an affair .
11 You might have had the decency to let it continue — ’ she started to complain , but he interrupted her , smiling .
12 You might have had the decency to order us some drink that was n't called Jim . ’
13 Cos I 've had er you might have had the west one to me again , well not just recently but just er er a month ago saying , is it still on , is it still going to happen ?
14 I think you might have to have a look Gilly , just to double check cos I 've got two numbers on here .
15 You might have to have a medical .
16 If speaker D had gone on at some length about ‘ cobbles ’ or rough roads in general , or if the analysis only had part of this fragment , up to C 's it was rather rough , then we might have had no evidence of a divergence in speakers ' topics within the conversation .
17 If she 'd taken her courage in both hands , and told him of her true feelings , they might have had a chance to work something out .
18 Did you say somebody called but perhaps they had a key though , I wo n't say anything to her , they might have had a key .
19 Above all he turned his anger towards Kenamun , who , on grounds of security , had forbidden Huy to visit the scene of the third murder when it came to light , where he might have had a chance at last of studying the circumstances of death .
20 The only Italian she might have got an introduction to — and though elderly he might have had a son — had dropped down dead in the Vatican Square .
21 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 .
22 Hirst 's pace and power was too much for QPR and he might have had a hat-trick .
23 Had she done so , he might have had a reason to object to the holiday and a great deal of trouble would have been saved .
24 I thought he might have had a place at the Youth , it seemed to me that he might have been a leader if he 'd had the encouragement .
25 He had learned from Desmond Morton that there was a plan afoot involving iron ore and the Swedish port of Oxelosund , which — had he not ‘ joined the wrong eleven ’ — he might have had a hand in .
26 And it worried her too ( He might have had an accident — should I phone the police ? ) , almost as much as it angered her ( He might have had the decency to let me know he would n't be in to supper ) .
27 GUIL : He might have had the edge .
28 ROS : ( Roused ) Twenty-seven-three , and you think he might have had the edge ? !
29 And it worried her too ( He might have had an accident — should I phone the police ? ) , almost as much as it angered her ( He might have had the decency to let me know he would n't be in to supper ) .
30 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 .
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