Example sentences of "[pron] might have [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I might have risen to the heights , |
| 2 | Only the day before I might have prayed for a stray round to puncture the car and my coffin and put me out of my endless misery . |
| 3 | Had the only purpose of my visit been to discover what Kenya is really like I might have saved on the air fare and just bought the book . |
| 4 | At least they had told me of their bad luck already or I might have succumbed to the old tales of women on ships and the bad omens they can bring . |
| 5 | ‘ How did ye mean , I might have worked in a circus ? ’ |
| 6 | If only I 'd gone along with the doctor 's proposals , it would have been over by now — completely and painlessly over , and any feelings of guilt I might have had as a result I would surely have dealt with ages ago . |
| 7 | Without half a bottle of red wine inside me I might have slipped on the slimy breakwater , but I jump onto the stony beach and chase her along the shore . |
| 8 | Another time I might have bristled at the idea of being overseen , at work . |
| 9 | I might have wished for a little less detachment in the Rodrigo ( the adagio in particular is rather cool ) , but the Villa-Lobos offerings suit Kraft down to the ground . |
| 10 | They looked after each other , that was all , as each of them might have cared for a pet and been solicitous for its well-being . |
| 11 | Those three operations then are the measure of modern medical practice : cancers which might have developed from an enlarged prostate , some rogue polyps and a spinal tumour , any one of which could have proved fatal , were all pre-empted by discovery and cure ; and I can not be other than deeply grateful for this additional lease of life . |
| 12 | Repairs to the existing masonry were carried out in matching brickwork and the purpose-made joinery of new windows and external doors has been retained in its natural colour under a clear sealant , rather than being painted , which might have detracted from the mellow textures of the renovated building ( Plate 51 ) . |
| 13 | On days when he was particularly active , other items of news which might have appeared in the ten-minute English language bulletins were squeezed out of those in the Zambian languages . |
| 14 | It is very important that the prospective auditor/ adviser be made fully aware of all the relevant facts which might have led to the breakdown of the previous client relationship . |
| 15 | The opposition groups , ranging from social democrats and liberals to Christians , nationalists and anarchists , had been given permission by the Moscow city council and the USSR Council of Ministers to march after the official parade organized by the trade unions , apparently to pre-empt the holding of a larger unofficial demonstration which might have clashed with the official parade . |
| 16 | Other cities where papal government might have settled were on important trade routes which might have added to the pope 's powers and security : but Rome remained the favoured city of the popes and , in spite of all the difficulties of controlling the city , the senate and the people , the popes were prepared to suffer all sorts of indignities in order to stay in Rome . |
| 17 | It was a hard weather-beaten old face which might have belonged to a nobleman , a yeoman , a mariner , or a philosopher ; for there was so much of a man that you lost sight of superadded distinctions . |
| 18 | This was an unusual arrangement which might have worked in a perfect world . |
| 19 | Stephen Glover could have taken either of two ‘ angles ’ : a bitchy , scandal-strewn insider 's account , which might have appealed to a small audience of fellow scribblers and media junkies ; or a description of what it takes to launch a high-profile business in the teeth of fierce competition , which might have interested those thousands of readers who do not drink at London 's Groucho Club . |
| 20 | Yet for all his own pleasure at tracing this evidence , Dixon could see little in his report which might have accounted for the look of extraordinary triumph he had seen on Morse 's face when he reported in at 2.45 p.m . |
| 21 | Critics of this view variously suggest that Socialist propensity to ‘ violence ’ anticipated that of the right ; that unnecessary enemies for the Republic were created by anticlericalism and , in general , too narrow a view on the part of the left as to what constituted acceptable ‘ Republican ’ values , credentials and behaviour ; and that the CEDA , a potentially Christian Democratic party which might have evolved in a genuinely democratic direction , was actually forced rightwards by the conduct of the left . |
| 22 | At the time when rent levels were falling , some less profitable land also went out of cultivation ( although the extent of this is hard to measure ) , so it is clear that the fall in rents must have been due to a shortage of potential tenants rather than to a greater supply of land , which might have resulted from the clearance of forest or the reclamation of fenland . |
| 23 | Now VAT men have earned an unfortunate reputation for not exactly being the sort who might have graduated from the Lucy Clayton school for charm and social deportment . |
| 24 | ‘ Has anyone been here since , who might have tampered with the body ? ’ asked Thiercelin . |
| 25 | And she might have gone to a specialist to have it diagnosed . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's possible that she might have gone to the young agricultural student — Farrel — who was here recently . |
| 27 | But Viola had reassumed all her wonted , iron-clad voluptuousness , and only her reddened eyes — had they , Greg wondered , been rubbed since she saw him coming up the path ? — suggested that she might have gone through a frightening or saddening time . |
| 28 | She spoke as she might have done to a nervous child . |
| 29 | She might have stayed at the home for years — people do . |
| 30 | It is Possible that she might have come to the big city on her own . |