Example sentences of "might have have [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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31 He continued to stare at the ground as she added , ‘ I 'm just wondering who might have had a motive for killing him . ’
32 ‘ It occurred to me , ’ Sybil continued as she waved Melissa to a chair , ‘ that … that person might have had a motive for killing Angy . ’
33 He had learned from Desmond Morton that there was a plan afoot involving iron ore and the Swedish port of Oxelosund , which — had he not ‘ joined the wrong eleven ’ — he might have had a hand in .
34 I thought he might have had a place at the Youth , it seemed to me that he might have been a leader if he 'd had the encouragement .
35 In cases falling within this protected class , security given by the surety would , in certain circumstances , be unenforceable notwithstanding that the creditor might have had no knowledge of and not have been responsible for the vitiating feature of the transaction .
36 If speaker D had gone on at some length about ‘ cobbles ’ or rough roads in general , or if the analysis only had part of this fragment , up to C 's it was rather rough , then we might have had no evidence of a divergence in speakers ' topics within the conversation .
37 Cos I 've had er you might have had the west one to me again , well not just recently but just er er a month ago saying , is it still on , is it still going to happen ?
38 GUIL : He might have had the edge .
39 ROS : ( Roused ) Twenty-seven-three , and you think he might have had the edge ? !
40 While no doubt Paul was thinking of the uncomplicated Christian message compared with the sophisticated philosophies of his day , and of the simple slaves and ordinary people who were joining the Christian family , he might have had the Lord 's background in mind as well .
41 One one boy might have had the belt , say once in the week or a month , at Girran .
42 Hearing a slight sound , a scraping noise through the wall , Alida , though she ignored it , stiffened her corseted thighs , Aunt Fosters , her mother 's last surviving sister , might have had the wit and grace to die in time but it was not a family trait .
43 And it worried her too ( He might have had an accident — should I phone the police ? ) , almost as much as it angered her ( He might have had the decency to let me know he would n't be in to supper ) .
44 ‘ You might have had the decency to let it continue — ’ she started to complain , but he interrupted her , smiling .
45 ‘ You might have had the decency to order us some drink that was n't called Jim . ’
46 And , of course , the man referred to as " Shakespeare " might have been Bacon , or rather he might have had the attributes associated with Bacon .
47 This might have had the effect of drawing families into the specialist system at an earlier stage .
48 Yet it was as though that night , in the moonlight , in the silence , as though even the work , the months of steady labour , had only been an illusion , only the dream of work , the dream of progress , and I had not even begun and never would begin , though at different moments in my life I might have had the illusion that I had begun and even , perhaps , finished .
49 Now that she was to go , she knew that she might have had the pleasure of looking forward to going , instead of such long and cheerless debates and equivocations .
50 He might have had the grace to look a little sheepish , she thought .
51 Perhaps if my maternal grandmother had had one on her nightly return from the candlewax factory here in Wiggly , Connecticut she might have had the energy to start her own bangle stall at weekends .
52 ‘ I thought perhaps you might have had an affair .
53 Between the 14th day of September 1987 and the 8th day of January 1988 conspired together and with other persons to defraud such persons who had or might have had an interest in dealing in shares in Blue Arrow , or National Westminster Bank , or in dealing on the Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 share index , namely : 2.1 By dishonestly concealing holdings of 19.39 per cent of the share capital of Blue Arrow ; 2.2 By falsely stating that all remaining shares not taken up in the rights issue by existing shareholders had been sold in the market ; 2.3 By falsely representing that 33,315,528 shares in Blue Arrow held by County NatWest Securities were held for the purposes of market making ; 2.4 By falsely representing that 34,069,433 shares in Blue Arrow held by Phillips & Drew Securities were held for the purposes of market making ; 2.5 By dealing off market with Union Bank of Switzerland in 28,201,743 shares in Blue Arrow when by reason of their connection with that company they were knowingly in possession of un-published price sensitive information ; 2.6 By creating a false instrument , namely a letter of indemnity dated 5 October 1987 from Nicholas Wells on behalf of County NatWest to Union Bank Of Switzerland ; 2.7 By engaging in a course of conduct which created a false or misleading impression as to the market in the shares of Blue Arrow for the purpose of creating such an impression and thereby influencing persons who might deal in those shares ; 2.8 By purchasing and retaining 2,150 Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 share index put option contracts to cover a risk of £51,500,000 whilst concealing from the market the true position in relation to the rights issue and the subsequent placing of shares in Blue Arrow , where Blue Arrow and National Westminster Bank were both component parts of that index .
54 And it worried her too ( He might have had an accident — should I phone the police ? ) , almost as much as it angered her ( He might have had the decency to let me know he would n't be in to supper ) .
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