Example sentences of "might have [verb] an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was ‘ vague information ’ that the person concerned might have eaten an egg which may have come from the monastery , Mother Catherine said . |
| 2 | Detectives think they might have uncovered an IRA Christmas bombing campaign . |
| 3 | This long experience , monopoly position and continued popularity might have engendered an element of complacency were it not for the enthusiasm and dynamism of the teaching team assisted by the advice and encouragement of industry representatives . |
| 4 | The unions might have seen an opportunity , trustees might have been appointed … ’ |
| 5 | Her biggest fear was that any hint that she might have formed an attachment for someone else would see her husband not waiting for her to agree to a divorce , but scandalising her parents by attempting to do the divorcing himself . |
| 6 | They might have made an effort to get the right costumes . |
| 7 | As Jenny Randles says in Abduction ( according to Mr Marr , the only really reliable guide to the spacenapping phenomenon ) , ‘ Of course I am making no assumptions about what it means to have been abducted [ by aliens ] , but if some researchers are correct many of you reading this book might have undergone an abduction experience without consciously realizing it . ’ |
| 8 | He might have waited an hour , she thought , and returned briskly to the kitchen just as Luch drift ed in for the soup . |
| 9 | But I understood that many in the battalions — some of Soares 's people apart-soldiered even more poorly than their already mediocre training and leadership might have led an expert onlooker to anticipate . |
| 10 | In Europe such abruptness might have raised an eyebrow or two , but in Indonesia it was stunningly rude . |
| 11 | Can you think of any more situations that you might have to use an excuse ? |
| 12 | This suggests that the clients themselves might have provided an impetus to itinerance . |
| 13 | Although it is clear that these changes were made in order to admit light to the new , deep-plan living accommodation , it is conceivable that the judicious use of ranges of standard reversible and ventilating roof windows might have provided an answer to this requirement which would have been less erosive of the original external appearance . |
| 14 | One might have anticipated an exposition on how this new syntax differed from that of the preceding age and how it could be developed for stylistic purposes . |
| 15 | If Deaconess Tilley had n't been there at the time , she might have found an excuse to say no . |
| 16 | Anyway , I got through this tricky interval , and even the sea co-operated for once , coming in just after the explosion and sweeping away any tell-tale tracks I might have left an hour or more before Diggs arrived from the village to inspect the scene . |
| 17 | You might have to write an essay or you do copy writing on the pa , do three sheets of pink paper , you had to three sheets of writing ! |
| 18 | Had the set been finished there , we might have got an album of more intensity but without commercial success — ‘ Exodus ’ was on the UK album charts for over a year . |
| 19 | The only Italian she might have got an introduction to — and though elderly he might have had a son — had dropped down dead in the Vatican Square . |
| 20 | Perhaps they had thought such a warning from one soldier to another might have seemed an impertinence . |
| 21 | Of course , had the guilds and fraternities included a handling charge in their reckoning they might have attracted an income allowing them the freedom to purchase for themselves those ‘ extras ’ now being clamoured for . |
| 22 | Joe made room for me with the same amount of good grace he might have afforded an enemy invading his castle and we sat for a few minutes without speaking , inspecting the view . |
| 23 | ‘ I thought the notary might have backdated an agreement , but of course he wo n't . ’ |
| 24 | She was thinking that the girl might have lacked an umbilicus ; might have come straight from the hand of God , who having finished making the mountains had picked a bit of clay from under his thumbnail and fashioned just one more sort of person , perhaps as an experiment . |
| 25 | ‘ I thought perhaps you might have had an affair . |
| 26 | Between the 14th day of September 1987 and the 8th day of January 1988 conspired together and with other persons to defraud such persons who had or might have had an interest in dealing in shares in Blue Arrow , or National Westminster Bank , or in dealing on the Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 share index , namely : 2.1 By dishonestly concealing holdings of 19.39 per cent of the share capital of Blue Arrow ; 2.2 By falsely stating that all remaining shares not taken up in the rights issue by existing shareholders had been sold in the market ; 2.3 By falsely representing that 33,315,528 shares in Blue Arrow held by County NatWest Securities were held for the purposes of market making ; 2.4 By falsely representing that 34,069,433 shares in Blue Arrow held by Phillips & Drew Securities were held for the purposes of market making ; 2.5 By dealing off market with Union Bank of Switzerland in 28,201,743 shares in Blue Arrow when by reason of their connection with that company they were knowingly in possession of un-published price sensitive information ; 2.6 By creating a false instrument , namely a letter of indemnity dated 5 October 1987 from Nicholas Wells on behalf of County NatWest to Union Bank Of Switzerland ; 2.7 By engaging in a course of conduct which created a false or misleading impression as to the market in the shares of Blue Arrow for the purpose of creating such an impression and thereby influencing persons who might deal in those shares ; 2.8 By purchasing and retaining 2,150 Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 share index put option contracts to cover a risk of £51,500,000 whilst concealing from the market the true position in relation to the rights issue and the subsequent placing of shares in Blue Arrow , where Blue Arrow and National Westminster Bank were both component parts of that index . |
| 27 | And it worried her too ( He might have had an accident — should I phone the police ? ) , almost as much as it angered her ( He might have had the decency to let me know he would n't be in to supper ) . |
| 28 | It was the sort of time and place where one might have expected an idea , the spring of a poem to well up from the quiet and the beauty . |
| 29 | Some detector users living in Kent might have expected an invitation but did n't get one , while at least two of those invited ( who have made no mention of the meeting on the several occasions I have spoken to them ) do not live in Kent . |
| 30 | One might have expected an examination of the non-economic bases of liberal democracy or of bureaucracy in understanding the distinction between ‘ class power ’ and ‘ state power ’ , or ‘ the specificity of the political ’ ( Laclau , 1977 ) . |