Example sentences of "might have [verb] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It did well enough , though might have done better if it had covered less ground ; also , in the four years that had elapsed since gathering material for it , public interest in the world role that Americans had taken up in the Kennedy years had largely evaporated . |
| 2 | Aye , that 's what he might have said like before he could fax it up . |
| 3 | I mean sexy little telephone calls between he who will be king and his , is she a mistress , is she a girlfriend , is she merely a friend , but at any event she 's married and her husband 's in the next bedroom as far as we can gather , you know erm do those kind of conversations and would , I mean maybe it 's important to sort of say and Anne probably has this , but Peter might not , I mean when I grew up the Royal Family were a cert sort of image and you might have known about George the Third who was mad , I mean who else was brought up George the Third was mad and Geor an and this guy was a , a drunk and this guy was a a womaniser , this guy was this , but Victoria you know mourned for sixty years or whatever it was , but this Royal Family , I E the , the Royal Family with which I grew up and Anne did were really sweet nice little Windsors who behaved themselves and that was what was , went into our psychic and there was the odd crack about Phil the Great who 's the Queen 's husband , you know and how he perhaps had an eye for the ladies , but there was never any photographs of him being or any evidence that it might have gone further than that particular and basically there was , that any , there was the fact that he was a sailor when he married the Queen anyway so all sailors are like that are n't they ! |
| 4 | That law might have developed so as to recognise a condictio indebiti — an action for the recovery of money on the ground that it was not due . |
| 5 | My visit might have ended there if my car had not run short of petrol on the road south of Nahariya . |
| 6 | And I thought she might have come today cos she said she 'd bring up the money but she has n't , not yet . |
| 7 | Kate Howey , 18 , the world junior middleweight champion , might have won more than a bronze if she had not incurred a seven-point penalty against Marianne Charve , of France , in her semi-final . |
| 8 | His work with The Miracles kept him in hits until 1972 , when he finally went solo and delivered the gorgeous Smokey , which might have promised more than it delivered but which ultimately — on ‘ Baby Come Close ’ , ‘ Just My Soul Responding ’ and the personal protest of ‘ Holly ’ — established him as the great single Romeo of modern soul . |
| 9 | I thought they might have got here before I did . ’ |
| 10 | In the same year as Jacobson published his experiments , a ‘ failure to replicate , report signed by twenty-three authors appeared in the major journal , Science , and the matter might have rested there but for the fact that it was noticed that the method which Jacobson had used to extract RNA from his rat brains also liberated a good deal of protein and other contaminants . |
| 11 | Bush might have spoken differently if he had known Clinton would be running in 1992 . |
| 12 | Things might have happened just as he says . |
| 13 | The teller then offered to accept their count , but the Zuwaya objected that he might have stolen more than a hundred votes . |