Example sentences of "he might have [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 So he might get his wall built but he might have to wait a year before he starts it .
2 He might have waited an hour , she thought , and returned briskly to the kitchen just as Luch drift ed in for the soup .
3 Anyway he might have hit a willow twig in the river . ’
4 He had a good degree in art history , and had he not gone in for politics he might have made a name for himself as an art historian .
5 His mind is open to the possibility that he might have made a mistake in hiring Stephanie to head Advertising and Promotions .
6 He might have made a doctor as well as a poacher … .
7 He might have made a pass given time .
8 And outside this family home he might have heard the call of the greylag geese as they rose and circled in flight above the River Vistula within whose rolling sight he had been born in 1920 .
9 If it had been later in the season , and the roses in full bloom , he might have missed the portal altogether , but there was just the one unopened bud on the bare branches , of a delicate peach shade with hints of rose which made him think of a girl 's skin .
10 I guess Damien Hirst did n't go clubbing in the mid-Eighties in NY , otherwise he might have noticed a shark in a tank in artist Eric Goode 's nightclub , Area .
11 She handed this creature to Roland , who took it as he might have done a kitten , cradling it in the crook of his elbow , and adding to it , in turn , the nightcapped one , in tiny white pleats and broderie anglaise , and the dark-headed one , severe in dark peacock .
12 He might have seen the knight standing on the parapet , crept up , placed the pole there , and somehow or other arranged for the tocsin to be sounded . ’
13 He might have gained a place in the ASB in any case as a representative of the protestant Reformation .
14 He might have expanded the scope of this intriguing remark .
15 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 .
16 Their relatively smaller personal estates reflect perhaps more than anything else a generally modest standard of living in the shires , for while the greater apparent wealth of some yeomen consisted mainly of farming stock , a big landowner , burdened with a large family and heavily encumbered estates , might find himself compelled to endure a spartan existence ; unlike a yeomen , moreover , he might have to support a train of unproductive servants .
17 She even thought up ways in which — had he been at home — he might have managed the rescue more easily and with far greater certainty .
18 But Moubarak argued that he might have misjudged the colt 's preparation in not giving him sufficient work since he was found to be suffering from a minor skin infection on his legs after his previous race .
19 It was said as a joke , but if the man had seen the evil look on Fagin 's face , he might have thought the warning was a necessary one .
20 ‘ I told him about the tramp , and he thinks he might have started the fire by knocking his pipe out on the dry grass . ’
21 I think he might have resisted the pressure her father was putting on him and taken whatever consequences there might have been , but for the prospect of fatherhood .
22 And it could be argued that had he fought during that time , he might have honed the ring sharpness to capitalise on the moment he rocked Tyson in the opening round .
23 In his want of pleasure , in his obvious anxiety , he might have opened a bank statement ending deeply in the red .
24 ‘ Oh , I do n't know , ’ he very nearly snaps , happy to have been talking about piano playing , pissed off he might have to resume a celebrity chat .
25 That way , at least , he might have discouraged the impression that the Government 's abiding concern in this sorrowful matter has been to defend the actions of the state at their most indefensible .
26 And er I say , I du n no , he might have got a solicitor , it might be all going on , who knows ?
27 He might have got a flea .
28 He might have got a flea Rudy .
29 He 's been arrested 32 times for shoplifting , but each time magistrates ruled the offences were n't serious enough for him to be detained , where he might have got the treatment he needs .
30 Under ordinary circumstances he might have got the second but they responded to his aggression with speed and efficiency , bottling him up again with a hail of bullets — bullets fired from very close range .
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