Example sentences of "[pers pn] 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 | 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 . |
| 15 | She touched the stone of the walls as she might have touched a cheek , deliberately and lingeringly . |
| 16 | Her brother Howard said : ‘ We believe she might have suffered a heart attack , despite her age . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | you do n't know the full story , she might have had a bit of a |
| 19 | She might have left a cigarette lit . |
| 20 | If the draught is sluggish , it may be improved by fitting vents in wooden floors near to the fireplace ; or you might have to install a vent in an outside wall . |
| 21 | You never know , you might have to do a top of an |
| 22 | You should have nipped into the Gulf of Corinth — you might have stood a chance there . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Ca n't you admit you might have made a mistake ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Do n't tell me you 've suddenly discovered that you might have made a mistake about me ? |
| 25 | And who , you might have asked a couple of days ago , is Whacker Eunice ? |
| 26 | erm you might have lost a lot . |
| 27 | ‘ Well ’ , — I was intentionally vague — ‘ by then you might have won a football pool . ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | I think you might have to have a look Gilly , just to double check cos I 've got two numbers on here . |
| 30 | You might have to have a medical . |