Example sentences of "might [vb infin] made a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Yet it even made a suggestion to CSM that might have made a dent in its sales graph . |
| 6 | His mind is open to the possibility that he might have made a mistake in hiring Stephanie to head Advertising and Promotions . |
| 7 | ‘ Ca n't you admit you might have made a mistake ? ’ |
| 8 | I might have made a mistake to turn down offers when they were there . |
| 9 | ‘ Do n't tell me you 've suddenly discovered that you might have made a mistake about me ? |
| 10 | Really to protect members of the management team who might have made a decision . |
| 11 | He might have made a doctor as well as a poacher … . |
| 12 | The children might have made a collection of shiny things or things made of metal , and be invited to think of things that they use at home which are shiny or made of metal . |
| 13 | Sheridan might have made a difference given the chance — but then we 'll never know quite what sent the skilful midfielder packing to Sheffield Wednesday after hardly a sniff of the City Ground . |
| 14 | Gabbi Callas , 27 , fiancee of victim Mark Fitz , said : ‘ If all this had come out before the court case , it might have made a difference . ’ |
| 15 | She was a very tall and very fair and dazzlingly beautiful creature whose skin was goose-pimpled under the impact of McIllvanney 's air conditioning which was set to a level that might have made a penguin shiver . |
| 16 | He might have made a pass given time . |
| 17 | They might have made an effort to get the right costumes . |