Example sentences of "might have [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had the batsman not ducked , the ball might have struck him in the solar plexus . |
| 2 | ‘ You might have heard me on the radio , ’ she said . |
| 3 | I might have felt it as a duty . |
| 4 | At home I might have fed it to the fish , but here I felt sorry for it and watched until it was time to move on . |
| 5 | ‘ I think she might have done it as a quick way of finding out how the business worked . |
| 6 | If , for example , old man Jordan had come into the kitchen at that moment , Wycliffe might have seen him in the mirror ; but what of it ? |
| 7 | After all , she might have seen it on the ceptors and come out to help . |
| 8 | His boyish , open face with its look of disciplined idealism was vaguely familiar to Massingham , who suspected that he might have seen it in a police recruitment pamphlet , but decided in the interest of harmonious co-operation to give Underhill the benefit of the doubt . |
| 9 | And I suppose we might have lost her in the long run , but not just yet . ’ |
| 10 | I think may- , you know she thought maybe she might have kept it for an occasion |
| 11 | The upshot is that Marx never even concerns himself with questions such as the relation between individual perceptions to objects or the texture of feelings , sensations and thoughts , which might have led him towards a theory of where individuality occurs . |
| 12 | In his brown canvas boots , faded blue trousers , checked shirt and frayed cap , one might have mistaken him for a man of no consequence instead of a senior member of local government . |
| 13 | She might then have sought and received public assistance or have pledged her husband 's credit with tradesmen : in which case the National Assistance Board might have summoned him before the magistrates , or the tradesmen might have sued him in the county court . |
| 14 | In fact , I would have hoped that an European interpretation might have presented us with a radically different perspective , something to argue about . |
| 15 | If you half-closed your eyes and looked at it you might have likened it to a string of coloured beads . |
| 16 | If I 'd told you about the entry earlier on it might have lulled you into a false sense of complacency . |
| 17 | Had it not been for the honey pigment of her skin , any one of her small circle of friends might have described her as a porcelain doll . |
| 18 | If he had chosen to , Thomas might have told her in no uncertain terms what was wrong . |
| 19 | ‘ Would n't have helped him much , ’ Dawson said , ‘ but it might have put me in a more relaxed frame of mind . ’ |
| 20 | You might have put it on the word processor and she could print off |
| 21 | I might have put it in the the bin . |
| 22 | Whether , you know , people might have bought them as a set otherwise . |
| 23 | Eventually she might have to face him as a customer , across the counter of the shop . |
| 24 | I said you might have left it in the car . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've lost my lighter and I thought I might have left it in the car the other day . |
| 26 | We might have got her at the ferry . ’ |
| 27 | Milan can be circumspect about visiting conductors , but on this occasion even the orchestra was stamping its approval for Lorin Maazel , a phenomenon I was told the Scala had not witnessed for over two decades ( you would have thought they might have managed it in the recent past for Muti , watching with no evident rancour from the box : but apparently not ) . |
| 28 | I might have to modify it in the light of circumstances . |
| 29 | His voice was a mere whisper , but such was the effect of his words on the woman that he might have shouted them from the rooftops . |
| 30 | ‘ He might have thrown it over the cliff . ’ |