Example sentences of "might [verb] [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This at least showed some foresight , since the number of beds in which Stephen might have missed a heartbeat and a vital document were legion . |
| 2 | The police suspected that it was an inside job and promptly arrested the dismissed worker , for no reason other than that she might have borne a grudge against her erstwhile employer . |
| 3 | Shifting more of the cost of training to the private sector in this way might have posed a problem , even in a buoyant economy . |
| 4 | It was further agreed that a three-year course would be too expensive , especially as entrants might have served a part or the whole of a long apprenticeship beforehand . |
| 5 | People indeed talked privately about the waste of government money , the lack of respect for public property , and it is possible that government might have regarded a discussion of that issue alone as constructive criticism : Kufrans were not sure . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Had things been different , Julia might have become a vet or a professional horsewoman . |
| 8 | To the south , across a wasteland which might have become a park , is the House of Science . |
| 9 | A sense of her own importance , which survived despite the sadnesses of her adult life and prompted her to tell her own story at such length , is summed up in her quotation of a relative 's comment on her autobiography , ‘ it was not writ as if a weak woman might have done it , but might have become a divine . ’ |
| 10 | He was offered a Dupont chemical engineering scholarship and might have become a captain of industry somewhere in middle America , balding , bloated and with a houseful of his own children , anonymously having pursued a largely uneventful career in that worthy but slightly boring structure of management in a giant US conglomerate . |
| 11 | Dalgliesh 's wife had n't wanted to be with her mother , she had wanted to be with him , had wanted it with such intensity that he had wondered afterwards whether she might have felt a premonition . |
| 12 | And who , you might have asked a couple of days ago , is Whacker Eunice ? |
| 13 | And after he 'd gone , and Isobel had returned to the newsroom to file all the dead stories and check the agency printers for the next hour 's updates ready to hand over to Jim , the late-shift newsreader , it briefly crossed her mind that maybe , just maybe , a rising star of journalism with her eye on the national media might have asked a couple of more searching questions . |
| 14 | You should have nipped into the Gulf of Corinth — you might have stood a chance there . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | If I 'd done English , geography and history , I might have done a lot better , but they just did n't seem to bother about you if you were doing science — perhaps it was an old-fashioned school . |
| 17 | As one officer said to Levi : ‘ If we nicked everybody we thought might have done a long-firm , we 'd never finish our paperwork , the cases might never come to court , and if they did , they 'd never have the room to try them . ’ |
| 18 | Furthermore , although there was no shortage of surgical complications which might have formed a focus for psychological discontent , the researchers noted that ‘ even those who had experienced complications tended to underrate their seriousness and to express satisfaction . ’ |
| 19 | erm you might have lost a lot . |
| 20 | Although I might have layered a lot of notes on one part it 's still basically , say , a D minor chord or whatever . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | A European director might have made a film explicitly depicting and condemning the chain-gang system and he almost certainly would have suggested that the system was a metaphor for life itself , but Hollywood had made a more accessible and universally popular film by showing an innocent man hounded by a combination of events and social forces of which the chain-gang was the most obviously dramatic . |
| 23 | As a boy Waugh had longed to go to Eton , which might have made a radical of him and where he might have met Orwell , and did not ; his first aristocratic wife left him after a year , and for an Etonian ; and his sojourns in a great Elizabethan house in Worcestershire as a young man , the guest of a friend , allowed him to glimpse a world of moats , battlements and rolling parkland from which in spirit he never awoke . |
| 24 | Gin had been the great popular comfort of Paradise Street in her childhood , gin and tea , so she took it as someone from another background might have made a dish of bread and milk . |
| 25 | Yet it even made a suggestion to CSM that might have made a dent in its sales graph . |
| 26 | His mind is open to the possibility that he might have made a mistake in hiring Stephanie to head Advertising and Promotions . |
| 27 | ‘ Ca n't you admit you might have made a mistake ? ’ |
| 28 | I might have made a mistake to turn down offers when they were there . |
| 29 | ‘ Do n't tell me you 've suddenly discovered that you might have made a mistake about me ? |
| 30 | Really to protect members of the management team who might have made a decision . |