Example sentences of "might have [verb] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of us have to learn to forgive our parents for not being the people we might have wanted them to be . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She might have written something to me , he thought . |
| 4 | They will trawl back in their minds for comments and clues that , if they had been understood at the time , might have enabled them to be more helpful . |
| 5 | And it had on painted hose of black and white , so cunningly painted that no man who saw them would have thought but that they were grieves and cuishes , unless he had laid his hand upon them ; and they put on it a surcoat of green sendal , having his arms blazoned thereon , and a helmet of parchment , which was cunningly painted that every one might have believed it to be iron ; and his shield was hung round his neck , and they placed the sword Tizona in his hand , and they raised his arm , and fastened it up so subtilly that it was a marvel to see how upright he held the sword . |
| 6 | I thought you might have said something to somebody . ’ |
| 7 | She might have said something to them . ’ |
| 8 | By this time I was feeling very friendly towards them and I might have said something to the effect : " If you will just mosey on down this trail ( meaning the main road between Cambridge and Huntingdon ) you will come to Alconbury , some 15 to 16 miles away . " |
| 9 | I 'm hoping she might have said something to someone which might help me find her . ’ |
| 10 | And Tristram might have sent it to Beatrix when he realized he was dying . |
| 11 | If you half-closed your eyes and looked at it you might have likened it to a string of coloured beads . |
| 12 | If their historical interest had saved them from the pick , the swinging steel ball , and the bulldozer , their intractable lay-out had discouraged renovators who might have put them to some use . |
| 13 | The quality of the poetry might have left something to be desired , but not the subject matter . |
| 14 | Vicente might have entrusted it to Tristram because he was being evacuated from Teruel and was expected to go back to England . |
| 15 | At the time of this translation we were not sufficiently in touch with Burmese poets and authors or with Buddhist monks , who together might have helped us to be more truly indigenous . |
| 16 | One might have expected it to be either suffocated or swallowed up . |