Example sentences of "might have [verb] that " in BNC.
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1 | That 's a win lose , you might 've lost that time but you 're gon na get it back another time . |
2 | I might have missed that , altogether . ’ |
3 | What might have caused that ? |
4 | Give me something that might have caused that situation to lose confidence . |
5 | You know , hardly get a go-round in the in the Dictionary of Quotations but at least you got the person there which is right , but in actual fact , how I might have treated that and I might what might have grabbed me a little bit more would have been the story which I would be looking for , I 'd be looking for my journalist to turn that into and therefore you might as well try and do it for us , because journalists like , like count on your labour , as I |
6 | ‘ Well , ’ said he , ‘ I might have handled that a trifle better . |
7 | I think we might have done that . |
8 | I think we might have done that . |
9 | Trueman might have done that if he 'd had his way , but Meredith-Lee was n't such an idiot . ’ |
10 | The thing to do , Caroline told herself , was lose herself in the beauty and lore of Rome , and she might have done that — if the guide had only let her . |
11 | Well I think that a number of you might have seen that definition of quality . |
12 | Anybody who saw ‘ Radio Radio ’ might have written that off as a rather self-indulgent film . |
13 | I gathered that he 'd been around in some pretty exciting — oh , do you mean he might have made that up , too ? |
14 | You know , if they could n't go and be a brick-layer , but they could sit at home , and you know , stick stamps on envelopes , or whatever , earn some money , then they might have to do that because they have n't got this plan . |
15 | I might have to do that wet , hey ? |
16 | alright ? , the only thing is last week , Jean said that when the surveyor came last time they took all the carpets up so you might , they might have to do that |
17 | How often do you dump a file on someone 's desk with a Post-it note on it saying ‘ do this ’ and get it back — okay — competently done but with no knowledge how it might have disrupted that person 's other work or even if they liked doing it enough to want to do more ? |
18 | So if some 500 million years ago , an astronaut , from some other planet passed near the earth , he could easily have noticed in the blue seas , a few new and mysterious turquoise shapes ; and from them he might have guessed that life on earth had really started . |
19 | Yeah I might have guessed that . |
20 | ‘ You might have said that before , ’ he said coldly . |
21 | I might have said that . |
22 | Places in those schools are by no means exclusively reserved for the offspring of the devout , but the churches might have reconsidered that policy if the Government had , in effect , continued to place a block on their expansion plans . |
23 | So far we have considered how natural language might have developed that complexity which sets it off so dramatically from the signalling systems of other species . |
24 | ‘ I thought you might have realised that after all this time . ’ |
25 | If one sixth of the money invested and lost outside the Empire , in South America alone , for example , had been given to Ireland , there might have continued that cooperation between her and England which provided British history with Burke , Goldsmith , Wellington , Boyle , Roberts , French , Beatty and Carson . |
26 | Clare was the great exception , an articulate peasant , and he might have described that world for us in all its natural beauty and its deep associations for the human race — twelve or thirteen centuries of unbroken continuity — but he came almost too late for this kind of England . |
27 | Until Thursday Labour might have shared that joke . |
28 | ‘ I thought you might have brought that young doctor back with you . ’ |
29 | None who might have carried that wish to the length of killing her . |
30 | Rufus wondered if he might have invented that part because he had so much to do with wombs in the course of his own daily life . |