Example sentences of "might have [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the " 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 | 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 . |
4 | 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 ? |
5 | After all , she might have seen it on the ceptors and come out to help . |
6 | And I suppose we might have lost her in the long run , but not just yet . ’ |
7 | 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 . |
8 | You might have put it on the word processor and she could print off |
9 | I might have put it in the the bin . |
10 | I said you might have left it in the car . |
11 | ‘ I 've lost my lighter and I thought I might have left it in the car the other day . |
12 | We might have got her at the ferry . ’ |
13 | 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 ) . |
14 | I might have to modify it in the light of circumstances . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | ‘ He might have thrown it over the cliff . ’ |
17 | 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 . |