Example sentences of "might [verb] [vb pp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I might 've guessed the worst when the scrum fell apart for me like the Red Sea . |
| 2 | Of all the films Ocean might 've obtained the licence to , they chose one that could only be described as mediocre . |
| 3 | The loss of the holy day holidays might have annoyed the local inhabitants more than it did the off-comers . |
| 4 | The public fantasies of television might have destroyed the need for private ones . |
| 5 | Given time , he might have destroyed the British Union of Fascists single-handed by his cold-hearted vindictiveness . |
| 6 | He decided not to wipe his face , which had started to run in its usual sleepy-fruit way , because to do so might have destroyed the impression . |
| 7 | Melanie could not have supported a laughing , singing Victoria for breakfast and Uncle Philip might have struck the baby , which would have been dreadful . |
| 8 | He might have missed the first onslaught of punk , but he caught a lot of its stylish offsprings , especially Postcard Records ' Orange Juice and Josef K. He was smitten with the sound of rhythm guitars meshed together to form pop melodies and was beginning to realise precisely how he wanted his own band to sound . |
| 9 | One disadvantage of warning colours is that they may attract killers who might have missed the prey animals altogether if they had not been so gaudy . |
| 10 | If it had been later in the season , and the roses in full bloom , he might have missed the portal altogether , but there was just the one unopened bud on the bare branches , of a delicate peach shade with hints of rose which made him think of a girl 's skin . |
| 11 | Johnson comments , ‘ To make this way , the rock has been hewn to a level with labour that might have broken the perseverance of a Roman legion . ’ |
| 12 | The only budget announcement that might have influenced the mid-Staffordshire result was the doubling of the savings limit for those entitled to claim poll-tax relief . |
| 13 | They are questions about the procedural advantages which could be derived from the extraordinary procedure , and which might have influenced the use of trusts instead of the parallel institutions of the civil law . |
| 14 | Unfortunately , other forms of assessment do not lend themselves to precise measures of test-retest reliability and the clinician may need to judge how far situational factors might have influenced the two assessments . |
| 15 | Tess also felt guilty that her presence might have influenced the farmer . |
| 16 | The English might have created the form of Irish oppression , Engels wrote in 1848 , but the poverty was due to the temperament of the people . |
| 17 | There was no sign of any sort of weapon , either a firearm related to the cartridges , or the kind of heavy instrument that might have caused the injury from which the man had apparently died . |
| 18 | Someone might have warned the poor girl that Peckinpah 's movies do have that effect on some people . |
| 19 | The establishment has taken over and the more wrong it has proved , the more it has stifled the dissent that might have saved the economy . |
| 20 | A substantial injection of advertising revenue , or an increase in its cover price , might have saved the Herald , albeit as a temporary solution . |
| 21 | Good co-ordinated fire might have wrecked the two galleys , and she could have got on course before Crackbene arrived . |
| 22 | Ordinarily a ‘ deserving ’ widow might have sought the aid of various charities first , but apparently Mrs Woodward 's lack of deference made this impossible . |
| 23 | ‘ So … so you might have wanted the boat for you and her … during the next six months ? ’ |
| 24 | Whether Terence O'Neill was committed to promoting the sorts of reforms which might have satisfied the Catholic minority is unknown . |
| 25 | Honours even might have satisfied the neutrals , but after last Monday 's Merseyside derby defeat , nothing less than victory would do for Souness and in the 84th minute it came . |
| 26 | Here we have a possible explanation of why the Cro-Magnons might have exterminated the Neanderthals : the Neanderthals were very like them , and therefore constituted a threat . |
| 27 | If Anya were n't so busy pretending to study the licence number on the car in front of us , she might have noticed the momentary ripple of light across the glass . |
| 28 | Hence if you have a few shapers you might have noticed the tendencies in the group group discussion that we had because there 'll be people digging in and saying no this is the right way to do it . |
| 29 | And outside this family home he might have heard the call of the greylag geese as they rose and circled in flight above the River Vistula within whose rolling sight he had been born in 1920 . |
| 30 | She understood then that if she had had leisure to listen at the right moment , she might have heard the faint , suggestive sounds of a third presence . |