Example sentences of "[pron] might have [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I might have extra players so that there can be some moments of rest for the players in one of the very long symphonies ; but in Bruckner 's day it was often a matter of re-scoring a passage because you knew that the third horn was not a very good player and that is all you had . |
| 2 | I can , I might have two holidays now , two days ' holiday . |
| 3 | Because without those eleven appointments I 've calculated I might have two blow outs , two people might want to rearrange , two people want to think about it , I 've got to have my eleven , to make my two sales . |
| 4 | I might have that little'un . |
| 5 | I think I might have that piece . |
| 6 | I have n't given her a hint that I might have Nazi sympathies . ’ |
| 7 | Gaunt-face was on the train , and I might have another opportunity . |
| 8 | If I do n't find someone to share my business lunch , I might have some cottage cheese , Ryvita or an apple . |
| 9 | I might have some salad . |
| 10 | But oh , if I might have this ability to impart the Holy Spirit ! |
| 11 | We have striven to avoid statements of attainment that require assessment which might have undesirable effects in the classroom , for example the use of language exercises out of context or other activities of an arid kind . |
| 12 | The article criticised the ‘ hopeless confusion of the post-war years ’ which had created the risk ‘ that in incompetent hands this country may go drifting on either towards a sharp crisis which might have revolutionary consequences , or to dictatorship , or perhaps worse still to gradual decline … |
| 13 | Sheridan had struck up an acquaintanceship with the actor-murderer Giles , a slightly bizarre eventuality which might have odd consequences . |
| 14 | Under the pretext of wanting to return a pen which Cara Kingsdale had left behind when she 'd arrived to interview me , and which might have sentimental value , I rang Verity magazine . ’ |
| 15 | But that if they did not make progress we were going to be in a really difficult situation which might have military overtones as well . |
| 16 | It should not be forgotten , moreover , that Jacobite gentlemen had non-Jacobite relatives , and a favour to the kinsman in difficulties with the law was also a favour to lairds who might have good reason to expect the politician 's help . |
| 17 | Taczek was on our books during the fifties and sixties as an informant on the Polish community — what the Polish government in exile was doing , contacts with émigrés who might have useful information and so on . ’ |
| 18 | Erm I was thinking of phoning John , I do n't know if anyone else knows anyone else who might have tubular bells of the right pitches ? |
| 19 | However , erm , thinking that er , one day , er , you might marry erm , a prince or princess , Freud says is an , is an illusion , in the sense that er , people do sometimes marry princ princes and princesses , it could happen , it 's not very likely to happen to any particular individual who might have that wish , but it could happen . |
| 20 | ‘ We 're checking the asylum people , of course , ’ he said , ‘ to see if they 've got anyone in who might have these sort of ’ — he hesitated — ‘ propensities . ’ |
| 21 | I would be happy to hear from any priest who feels he would like to volunteer for five years or from suitably qualified people who might have some skill to offer . |
| 22 | She might have four children , but still thoroughly enjoyed that sort of thing . |
| 23 | That way she might have some protection against Jack Lawrence and his hyperactive lips ! |
| 24 | Perhaps , after all , she might have some master plan behind her teaching . |
| 25 | Yes she might have some ideas . |
| 26 | But , looking on the bright side , she might have more idea of how to proceed after her visit to the cuttings library that afternoon . |
| 27 | Of course , Tocqueville recognized that the development of the industrial system itself might have important effects upon the democratic regime , especially through the emergence in productive industry of a new ‘ aristocracy ’ , but he was inclined to regard this as an exceptional and temporary phenomenon which would not be able to withstand the general tendency of democracy to bring about greater equality . |
| 28 | You might have masochistic tendencies . ’ |
| 29 | Yeah , erm of course er some some you 'd sold it to you might have other friends who you did n't have as friends . |
| 30 | But forget any notion you might have that sisterhood land secretaries ) are powerful . |