Example sentences of "[pron] might [vb infin] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've always , I might 've had a little moan , but I 've always to myself |
| 2 | Yet I might ask to have the salt passed , or discourse of the evil weather , and so my brother , to my great chagrin , noticed nothing , but set out blithely to go hunting with his new friend , leaving me at home to sit by the hearth , and to feel silent anguish at what might ensue . |
| 3 | I might like having me botty smacked . |
| 4 | I thought I might like to have a few . ’ |
| 5 | Yet it was as though that night , in the moonlight , in the silence , as though even the work , the months of steady labour , had only been an illusion , only the dream of work , the dream of progress , and I had not even begun and never would begin , though at different moments in my life I might have had the illusion that I had begun and even , perhaps , finished . |
| 6 | The reaction to that speech - and my reaction to that , the attempt to explain and apologise — put a firm stop to any hope I might have had that I might have been a candidate for leadership of the party . ’ |
| 7 | I might have had a different man , a bigger apartment , a bigger car , travel that way instead of this . |
| 8 | I might have had a splendid pad , |
| 9 | Looking back , there have been occasions when I might have had a bit more foresight , particularly when this chap rang me from Newcastle one day raving about this brilliant young footballer he wanted me to look after . |
| 10 | If only I 'd gone along with the doctor 's proposals , it would have been over by now — completely and painlessly over , and any feelings of guilt I might have had as a result I would surely have dealt with ages ago . |
| 11 | ‘ I now have a wonderful little boy who is absolutely perfection , ’ she says , ‘ I know I might have had another wonderful child but I would have been riddled with doubt for most of its life . ’ |
| 12 | I might have had a word with him if I 'd caught him . |
| 13 | She took the man I loved , the child I might have had , and did n't even keep it . |
| 14 | I mean , I might have had to shove the split match heads under Carol 's fingernails , or tie her to a tree and subject her to psychological warfare by , say , reading Hemingway aloud to her . |
| 15 | If whatever happened to Summerchild had n't happened , I think , once again , then … then Timmy and I might have had a rather better quality of life . |
| 16 | ‘ While I might have had difficulty believing you at that particular moment two years ago , it was two years ago . |
| 17 | ‘ I might have had a hat-trick and I wanted that . |
| 18 | ‘ I might have had a chance if the fates had n't conspired against me , but my left leg 's still giving me some stick . |
| 19 | And we 've not had I I must say that over the years I might have had two cases perhaps when there 's been a query with regard to that in terms of packing . |
| 20 | However , some of them might have had it in them to refrain from congratulating the Government on delivering the two worst recessions of the post-war years . |
| 21 | When Myra was regressed she was unable to come up with anything which might have had a distressing effect upon her before the incident with her cousin . |
| 22 | Jonah , disliking the task for unexplained reasons which might have had something to do with a fear of being stoned to death by the partying Ninevites , ran away . |
| 23 | In the next century the practice petered out , though it was still occasionally revived for particularly distinguished visitors , who might expect to have their names recorded on silk or satin rather than plebeian paper . |
| 24 | Erm both the Labour and the Liberal parties , erm think it 's extremely important that we maintain this provision for the curriculum pupils who might wish to have petition early and we will maintain in full so the current level of provision under section eleven will be May next year , which puts a large sum on the money into that , this is growth in expenditure , the making up of government cuts , increasing the money we 're spending , it 's not increasing service , it 's simply continuing the current current policies but it will continue as it is now . |
| 25 | The growth of bureaucracy led to the proliferation of officials with functions as police , tax collectors and customs officers who might have had their offices in such places . |
| 26 | Unfortunately , I think they are few in number ; they are mainly young intellectuals who might have had a career but now can not . |
| 27 | " Shakespeare " denotes someone who might have had any number of different characteristics . |
| 28 | He continued to stare at the ground as she added , ‘ I 'm just wondering who might have had a motive for killing him . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Is there anybody who might have had a serious grudge against your father ? ’ |
| 30 | Michael Banks had been a man who inspired love , but even so Charles could produce quite a list of people who might have had a grudge against him . |