Example sentences of "might [verb] have a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Anyway , you were asleep when it happened but they might want to have a word , so — ’ |
2 | But are there other circumstances , perhaps less predictable , in which an adult might need to have a home with relatives , at least on a temporary basis ? |
3 | Similarly , we might claim to have a right to private property on account of having interests which crucially depend on private ownership . |
4 | ‘ Clare has a copy of the paper now , and I have brought in a couple of extra copies ; so perhaps the dinosaur people , at least , might like to have a look at it and see what they think . |
5 | Thought you might like to have a look . ’ |
6 | It always ferments the idea in criminals minds that they might like to have a go at something like that themselves . |
7 | I think you might have to have a look Gilly , just to double check cos I 've got two numbers on here . |
8 | You might have to have a medical . |
9 | Above all he turned his anger towards Kenamun , who , on grounds of security , had forbidden Huy to visit the scene of the third murder when it came to light , where he might have had a chance at last of studying the circumstances of death . |
10 | If she 'd taken her courage in both hands , and told him of her true feelings , they might have had a chance to work something out . |
11 | ‘ I might have had a chance if the fates had n't conspired against me , but my left leg 's still giving me some stick . |
12 | His claim about South African involvement was subsequently ridiculed in the press and elsewhere in a way reminiscent of the scorn poured for so many years on the suggestion that British intelligence might have had a link with the Zinoviev letter . |
13 | Michael Banks had been a man who inspired love , but even so Charles could produce quite a list of people who might have had a grudge against him . |
14 | Had it not been for a diving goal-line clearance from Laws , who replaced Charles after 23 minutes , McClair might have had a second . |
15 | One of the people with the piano might have had a pencil between their teeth , but would probably have been annoyed if we had taken it to mean the pencil and said : |
16 | Also , the late Graham Chapman might have had a tribute more fitting to his debunking spirit than a discussion in which the presenter appeared to say the words ‘ epiphany-oriented . ’ |
17 | Crewe might have had a couple more . |
18 | The Times Diary suggested recently that parent company W H Smith 's reluctance to write off shopfitting costs estimated at £500,000 might have had a bearing on the newfound amity between the companies . |
19 | Looking back , there have been occasions when I might have had a bit more foresight , particularly when this chap rang me from Newcastle one day raving about this brilliant young footballer he wanted me to look after . |
20 | you do n't know the full story , she might have had a bit of a |
21 | I might have had a word with him if I 'd caught him . |
22 | And it it it 's called the fog index but the thing that 's interesting about it is that I 've got , I 've got some interesting examples of fog indexes erm and you 'll get people like Churchill who sometimes made speeches and their fog index is quite small you 're going to use this you know example and they might have a fog , fog index that 's fine and what Anne and I are talking about with say something like the Telegraph or the Times or whatever , might have a fog index that people but this is because Churchill was very clear , very concise and going back to the original point about , or some of the original points about this , and I was mak raising these issues earlier this evening one of the great sadnesses that I have is that , is that when I first went into journalism the tabloids as we call them were incredibly well written beautifully styled , well researched and okay they might have been punchier and shorter and everything else , compared to the turning up the er the , the Times or whatever , but they were well written and you might have had , if you can put the fog index test , test on it you might have had a fog index of say six or seven compared to eleven on the Telegraph story , but it was still full of clarity like to read . |
23 | Unfortunately , I think they are few in number ; they are mainly young intellectuals who might have had a career but now can not . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | Did you say somebody called but perhaps they had a key though , I wo n't say anything to her , they might have had a key . |
26 | Every surface that might have had a fingerprint was wiped , every trace they could think of expunged . |
27 | United also might have had a penalty in the second half when City skipper , Keith Curle , appeared to push striker Mark Hughes over in his box , but referee Robert Hart , waved play on . |
28 | Rovers might have had a penalty after 29 minutes when Aldridge was felled by Prior but referee John Lloyd of Wrexham dismissed the appeals . |
29 | ‘ Harriet might have had a glass or two that morning but she was n't drunk ! |
30 | Barcelona had already been refused a penalty , but they soon drew level through Julio Salinas , the deceptively inelegant striker who has taken Gary Lineker 's reluctant ill-fitted role on the right wing and , on Saturday , made such a good job of it that he might have had a hat-trick but for Francisco Buyo 's reflexes . |