Example sentences of "what [pers pn] might have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slightly towards one end , on the surface that was now uppermost on the table , rested a long , unevenly shaped darkish slab of what I might have thought was rough-faced granite . |
| 2 | Even among that cosmopolitan crowd I felt awkward in my 1990s rented Renault runabout , but Berlin airport did not have anything for hire with half-tracks at the back , no period Kubelwagen Type 82 staff cars , a Schwimmwagen perhaps , or what I might have really gone for — an old Humber Super Snipe finished in khaki with white mudguards . |
| 3 | ‘ If I 'd started at 17 or 18 , who knows what I might have achieved . |
| 4 | Happiness , I knew , was not something she thought much of as an end : it was as if she had said , I 'm glad you do n't mind being poor , and , although when I replied to her , it was only to tell her about the baby , Thomas , and how he had put on five pounds and had cut his first tooth , I brooded over what I might have said while I stood at the sink or pushed the pram , making great , windy speeches in my mind , venting on my absent aunt the curious , unreasonable anger that seemed to rise up before me like a dark pit , bottomless and frightening . |
| 5 | Or perhaps … perhaps it 's what I might have to say that you 're frightened of ? |
| 6 | ‘ It 's no good thinking of what I might have done , Carrie . |
| 7 | She made between 70 and 90 blouses a week which , despite the low rate of pay , compares well with what she might have got as a part-time worker in a sweat shop , the most likely alternative . |
| 8 | These penalties , to be sure , fell far short of what she might have expected for speaking out in Stalin 's Russia , which she had continued to admire for far longer than many people . |
| 9 | Biting in what she might have said , she stood , and strode over to the door . |
| 10 | Jasper had several times mentioned Muriel , and this could have given Alice a clue , if her dislike of Muriel did not always rise promptly in her , preventing her from hearing what she might have done . |
| 11 | Leo could n't bear to think what she meant , what she might have been through . |
| 12 | While waiting I tried to imagine what she might have been thinking . |
| 13 | It was what she might have expected . |
| 14 | Well , I do n't know what she might have told you , but I racked my memory and I came up with a name . |
| 15 | But , like , you do n't know what you might have prevented ’ ( FN 20/6/87 , p. 8 ) . |
| 16 | ‘ Because of what you might have remembered since . ’ |
| 17 | Minter would n't have paid you a penny for what you might have got out of me . |
| 18 | Who knows what you might have got if you 'd played your hand right ? ’ |
| 19 | ( 6 ) An empathetic question asks the pupil to become involved personally with the evidence , e.g. " If you had been the soldier standing behind Harold , say what you might have thought , felt and done at the moment the arrow hit him in the eye . " |
| 20 | In most of the examples discussed in this chapter , the finished product is a smooth curve which resembles what we might have drawn if we had smoothed the raw data by eye ; looking from the smooth back to the rough we could usually see the trend in the raw data . |
| 21 | Well what we might have to do is concoct something up on a letter , a stand have you a standard charge ? |
| 22 | For some reason he was terrified about what we might have said of him behind his back . |
| 23 | Do you understand what we might have here ? |
| 24 | But this is exactly what we might have expected : with the emergence of the black British identity has come a matching linguistic persona , neither London nor Jamaican , but " London Jamaican " . |
| 25 | Clearly some very large forces have disrupted the outer regions of the Solar System at some stage , or stages , in the past , but we have no idea of when or of what they might have been . |
| 26 | What they might have heard however , had they been passing ten minutes later , even above the noise of the traffic and the raging of the wind , was a roar of someone in pain , a great and agonizing cry . |
| 27 | ‘ If the Beirut police had continued to probe who knows what they might have uncovered ? |
| 28 | Now , however , the French , no matter what they might have thought of American rhetoric , could at least pretend that they took it seriously and that their actions were being taken in defence of ‘ the free world ’ . |
| 29 | We need to consider more carefully what they might have as their objectives . |
| 30 | Was I perhaps too busy noticing things that Dr Starkie was missing ( though what they might have been I ca n't for the moment think ) ? |