Example sentences of "might [vb infin] [vb pp] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said she might 've sent a full packet give one to Barry , one to Rhys and one to Cerys but there was only two |
| 2 | I 've always , I might 've had a little moan , but I 've always to myself |
| 3 | People might 've messed around with it by putting this overhead profit to risk , they might 've put a negative er element in there , er they might 've put a high-cost element in there , they might put nought in there , so it 's very difficult to recognise that , that bill rates er from the labour , or the labour from the bill rate , there is n't a standard relationship , nowhere near . |
| 4 | Mrs Thatcher 's gamble , which might have caused a huge crisis and the fall of the government , came off triumphantly . |
| 5 | This law has not served the best interests of air safety even though it might have satisfied a curious public . |
| 6 | A close observer might have noticed a slight stiffening of Albert 's back , but otherwise he gave no sign of hearing . |
| 7 | Also news of such extravagance might have perturbed a suspicious Emperor . |
| 8 | he might have done a roast dinner and that they |
| 9 | The restrictions of office life might have formed a permanent barrier to any expression of their feelings for each other , but their relationship had grown appreciably closer when they had both stayed for part of one summer at the home of a friend , Margaret Behrens , in Mentone — although even here Valerie Fletcher still called him " Mr Eliot " . |
| 10 | The miners might have lost a political battle , but they had not lost a war . |
| 11 | He was about to return the compliment by suggesting that she might have lost a little weight when she leaned across and helped herself to another jam tart . |
| 12 | Had Forbes lived longer , he might have founded at Edinburgh a school of naturalists as he hoped , and which was impossible at that date in London ; and he might have written a major work . |
| 13 | But Jan Peerce makes a very coarse and unromantic Alfredo , and Licia Albanese , who might have made a good shot at the role of Violetta under more sympathetic direction , sounds particularly nervous and unsettled . |
| 14 | Flaubert might have made a similar avowal — ‘ I leave two children , Bouvard and Pécuchet ’ — because his only child , the niece who became a daughter , had departed into disapproving adulthood . |
| 15 | Ken , would you say though that erm one or two recent announcements connected with these judgments , I think including the er the judge in a recent M C C case which actually went I think against the administrators , b on shares but actually the judge said if the argument had been made that er these assets were held er on a trustee basis , then I might have made a different decision . |
| 16 | Thanks very much indeed for your report , Matthew , it 's certainly very informative , and in an ideal world , I think we might have made a different decision today . |
| 17 | Gregory might have made a deliberate choice . |
| 18 | He had a passionate love of music and in another world at another time might have made a fine musician , but there , held in that place at that moment , there were other plans , other duties , other paths . |
| 19 | He might have made a significant contribution to the public life of this country had he not been totally overshadowed by his illustrious father and had he not had such a burning desire to shine as bright or even brighter . |
| 20 | A goal then might have made a big difference . |
| 21 | Televising might have made a big impact on proceedings in one other area . |
| 22 | At dusk the clouds over Manhattan , which had threatened snow all day , cleared and revealed a pristine sky , its colour so ambiguous it might have fuelled a philosophical debate as to the nature of the blue . |
| 23 | He turned west , down to the hotel at Loweswater where , as he was to report to Newton , ‘ I might have landed a fine salmon trout . ’ |
| 24 | He might have met a great hero , or the cunningest of thieves , or some wise and great sage . |
| 25 | And Julius Landor might have ruined a large chunk of her life , but he was n't going to ruin her birthday . |
| 26 | A gentle schoolmaster with old-fashioned notions of courtesy and decency , he might have led a still life behind glass if Irina had n't rescued him . |
| 27 | There are the rare cases , as with the bronze and brass Etruscan statuettes described above , where a few moments spent performing a surface analysis can unequivocally solve a problem , which might have remained a stylistic conundrum for ever . |
| 28 | Had this been the only ground of complaint , their Lordships might have reached a different conclusion on the appeal . |
| 29 | Severiano Ballesteros might have endured a long summer of discontent , pointing to both mental and physical problems for his loss of form , but his absence from the leaderboards , conspicuous though it might have been , is consistent with the capricious nature of the sport . |
| 30 | He sat at the head of the table and was served by kneeling courtiers such as might have attended a real prince . |