Example sentences of "she might have [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Maybe , she thought bitterly , if she had asked a few questions she might have uncovered the truth about him for herself , instead of having the information relayed to her by one of her friends . |
| 3 | She touched the stone of the walls as she might have touched a cheek , deliberately and lingeringly . |
| 4 | Her brother Howard said : ‘ We believe she might have suffered a heart attack , despite her age . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Her biggest fear was that any hint that she might have formed an attachment for someone else would see her husband not waiting for her to agree to a divorce , but scandalising her parents by attempting to do the divorcing himself . |
| 7 | Mrs Linley , who has waited more than a year to swap her previous house in Trafford Close for a larger property , feared she might have to replace the lock herself . |
| 8 | In Miss D'Arcy he had implanted a slight sense that she might have offended the Earl 's younger brother and could be denied entry into the world for which her father had cultivated her . |
| 9 | If she had taken her stockings off , she felt she might have managed the situation with dignity , but as it was , racked by physical as well as emotional misery , she felt she might become insane at any moment . |
| 10 | It was , I know , in Hertfordshire , but I am sure she thought I was lying and that she might have to deliver the child . |
| 11 | you do n't know the full story , she might have had a bit of a |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | At any other time she might have appreciated the beauty of the morning , a perfect , brilliant , cloudless day , golden and enticing after a refreshing overnight rain . |
| 15 | It was just as well , she thought ruefully , that he was an easy , undemanding companion , and had it not been for the throbbing behind her eyes she might have considered the evening pleasant enough . |
| 16 | No matter how she might have to count the pennies she could always spare a few for the bright yellow flowers which reminded her of home . |
| 17 | Fenella pulled the velvet folds of the cover about her and tried to sleep and not to think about what would happen and whether they would be let out of these rooms and what stories she might have to tell the Gruagach about Star People and the Fire Court and the other fictional places they were supposed to have travelled to . |
| 18 | She might have drawn the line if I 'd suggested murdering her , but even then I would n't have counted on her being able to break the habit of a lifetime . |
| 19 | She might have left a cigarette lit . |
| 20 | Shelley went in to speak quietly to her patients , trying to push to the back of her mind the knowledge that she might have left the drug cupboard open in her anxiety yesterday . |
| 21 | If Deaconess Tilley had n't been there at the time , she might have found an excuse to say no . |
| 22 | It soon became clear that she might have got the date and the king wrong , that she had n't seen the guinea for years , and so forth . |
| 23 | 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 . |