Example sentences of "he might have [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | So he might get his wall built but he might have to wait a year before he starts it . |
| 2 | He might have discovered a modern-day equivalent of the Club . |
| 3 | Had Forbes lived longer , he might have founded at Edinburgh a school of naturalists as he hoped , and which was impossible at that date in London ; and he might have written a major work . |
| 4 | He might have met a great hero , or the cunningest of thieves , or some wise and great sage . |
| 5 | Anyway he might have hit a willow twig in the river . ’ |
| 6 | He might have made a doctor as well as a poacher … . |
| 7 | He might have made a pass given time . |
| 8 | His mind is open to the possibility that he might have made a mistake in hiring Stephanie to head Advertising and Promotions . |
| 9 | He might have made a significant contribution to the public life of this country had he not been totally overshadowed by his illustrious father and had he not had such a burning desire to shine as bright or even brighter . |
| 10 | He had a good degree in art history , and had he not gone in for politics he might have made a name for himself as an art historian . |
| 11 | Today the branch chairman said that had Mr Taylor tried again , he might have faced a similar rebellion . |
| 12 | By the age of 18 or 20 , he had completed his apprenticeship in life : he might have become a very good photographer , probably an excellent painter , a good mountaineer and hiker , or a fine skier . |
| 13 | More important , the Theatre Royal ( 1836–7 ) and the Grey column ( 1837–8 ) in Newcastle , stately neo-classical structures which were key elements in the heroic replanning of the city centre by Richard Grainger [ q.v. ] , were evidently also his conceptions , and suggest that he might have become a more significant figure in his own right had he not died relatively young , surviving his father by a mere six years . |
| 14 | A gentle schoolmaster with old-fashioned notions of courtesy and decency , he might have led a still life behind glass if Irina had n't rescued him . |
| 15 | I guess Damien Hirst did n't go clubbing in the mid-Eighties in NY , otherwise he might have noticed a shark in a tank in artist Eric Goode 's nightclub , Area . |
| 16 | She handed this creature to Roland , who took it as he might have done a kitten , cradling it in the crook of his elbow , and adding to it , in turn , the nightcapped one , in tiny white pleats and broderie anglaise , and the dark-headed one , severe in dark peacock . |
| 17 | he might have done a roast dinner and that they |
| 18 | He might have gained a place in the ASB in any case as a representative of the protestant Reformation . |
| 19 | Sentencing R v Barney ; CA ( Crim Div ) ( Bingham LJ , Ognall , McKinnon JJ ) ; 3 Oct 1989 A judge was in error in implying that , had a defendant been in a position to pay compensation to his victim , he might have received a shorter sentence than that in fact imposed . |
| 20 | Their relatively smaller personal estates reflect perhaps more than anything else a generally modest standard of living in the shires , for while the greater apparent wealth of some yeomen consisted mainly of farming stock , a big landowner , burdened with a large family and heavily encumbered estates , might find himself compelled to endure a spartan existence ; unlike a yeomen , moreover , he might have to support a train of unproductive servants . |
| 21 | If Mr Bumble had known this earlier , he might have told a different story , but now it was too late . |
| 22 | Once hired , he might have to work a 15-hour stretch , perhaps into the night . |
| 23 | In time he might have proved a good replacement for Chapman , but it would have needed a refinement in tactics . |
| 24 | In his want of pleasure , in his obvious anxiety , he might have opened a bank statement ending deeply in the red . |
| 25 | ‘ Oh , I do n't know , ’ he very nearly snaps , happy to have been talking about piano playing , pissed off he might have to resume a celebrity chat . |
| 26 | He might have got a flea . |
| 27 | He might have got a flea Rudy . |
| 28 | And er I say , I du n no , he might have got a solicitor , it might be all going on , who knows ? |
| 29 | She thought he might have meant a New York accent , but she was from Los Angeles and would n't have tried anyway . |
| 30 | It is thought he might have hitched a lift and motorists who saw him have been asked to come forward . |