Example sentences of "might have taken [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The formation of liberal thought by those who normally might have taken a pride in never bothering to think at all was remarkable . |
| 2 | Her self-confidence might have taken a battering , but that was no reason to forfeit the personal standards her parents had instilled into her since childhood . |
| 3 | He took her hand , not to kiss , but as he might have taken a man 's hand who had met him fair and done him honour . |
| 4 | It may not be , and Hakel and Reimer might have taken the opportunity to sow more seeds of doubt , or at least put the certified cause of death in an historical perspective : 100 years ago a recorded cause of death from heart disease ( except for congenital malformations and valve defects ) was barely known , yet ischaemic heart disease must surely have existed . |
| 5 | Lorrimer would hardly have risked telephoning from the Laboratory or from home in the evenings when he , Howarth , might have taken the call . |
| 6 | Since Raymond-Berengar was married to the been of Aragon and ruled that kingdom in his wife 's name , he might have taken the title of king , but refused to do so , saying that it was better to be known as the greatest count rather than the seventh greatest king . |
| 7 | And he bent towards her and extracted a kiss from her reluctant lips the way he might have taken the pit from an apricot . |
| 8 | Had the police done nothing , farmers might have taken the law into their own hands . |
| 9 | Danger men such as Gerald Kaufman and John Prescott , who might have taken the wrapping off the chocolate box , were kept hidden from sight . |
| 10 | This accords with a remark Johnson made to Boswell as they drove towards Aberdeen : ‘ I might have taken the side of the savage equally , had anybody else taken the side of the shopkeeper . ’ |