Example sentences of "[pron] might [vb infin] [vb pp] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although I might have layered a lot of notes on one part it 's still basically , say , a D minor chord or whatever . |
| 2 | I might have made a mistake to turn down offers when they were there . |
| 3 | Given a set of circumstances — and of course more height — I might have completed a turn onto an adjacent runway , but from low down and with a suitable field ahead I should have treated the reduction as an engine failure , and made an early decision to land . |
| 4 | If I 'd done English , geography and history , I might have done a lot better , but they just did n't seem to bother about you if you were doing science — perhaps it was an old-fashioned school . |
| 5 | Looking back , there have been occasions when I might have had a bit more foresight , particularly when this chap rang me from Newcastle one day raving about this brilliant young footballer he wanted me to look after . |
| 6 | I might have had a word with him if I 'd caught him . |
| 7 | ‘ I might have had a chance if the fates had n't conspired against me , but my left leg 's still giving me some stick . |
| 8 | ‘ I might have had a hat-trick and I wanted that . |
| 9 | Yet it was as though that night , in the moonlight , in the silence , as though even the work , the months of steady labour , had only been an illusion , only the dream of work , the dream of progress , and I had not even begun and never would begin , though at different moments in my life I might have had the illusion that I had begun and even , perhaps , finished . |
| 10 | This accords with a remark Johnson made to Boswell as they drove towards Aberdeen : ‘ I might have taken the side of the savage equally , had anybody else taken the side of the shopkeeper . ’ |
| 11 | I think I might have caught a cold . ’ |
| 12 | Thought I might have got a chance at Pat Weaver , but you 're too efficient for me , Mister Doyle . ’ |
| 13 | Still mazed with whatever the drug was she had taken , I might have got the truth out of her . |
| 14 | Of course , had Helmut not left for Zurich but stayed at Park Terrace , and had the situation between the three of us then become something of a tussle , I might have lacked the courage finally to pack up and return to Paris with Jean-Claude . |
| 15 | I might have left the discotheque and I 'd have never met that man . |
| 16 | Anyway , I got through this tricky interval , and even the sea co-operated for once , coming in just after the explosion and sweeping away any tell-tale tracks I might have left an hour or more before Diggs arrived from the village to inspect the scene . |
| 17 | A couple of weeks ago , I might have expected the Tories to scrape through to election victory with such a Budget . |
| 18 | ‘ I felt I might have passed the pair in front of me on the last lap but what was the point , I had no chance of winning and this is a tough circuit . ’ |
| 19 | My hon. Friend has commented in detail on the transcript of that hearing , including the statements by the witness , Mr. Farrell ; the differences of opinion about the handwriting on the receipt ; whether someone might have stolen the receipt book and forged the receipt ; unsupported allegations about previous examples of Mr. Brand 's paperwork being missing ; and the apparent lack of follow-up to the mother 's original letter . |
| 20 | Earlier , and none of them might have survived the ritual of the tunnel of terror … |
| 21 | BOMB-PROOF litter bins , which might have limited the Warrington IRA bomb horror , are being developed by the Royal Ordnance factories . |
| 22 | To the south , across a wasteland which might have become a park , is the House of Science . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Although the port prospered in part , particularly as a base for privateering depredations on foreign ships , the dues which might have increased the town 's wealth were hard to collect , and attempts to extend port rights over much of the coastal plain met with little success . |
| 25 | erm now if they , I mean they did n't even consider that how other options which might have increased the living standards because land reform |
| 26 | Furthermore , although there was no shortage of surgical complications which might have formed a focus for psychological discontent , the researchers noted that ‘ even those who had experienced complications tended to underrate their seriousness and to express satisfaction . ’ |
| 27 | NB Any alleged failure by the doctor to disclose risks about the treatment , which might have enabled the patient to give an informed consent , does not invalidate the consent . |
| 28 | In addition to regulating the lives of the Christian subjects of the Merovingian kings — and also to circumscribing the activities of the Jews , the one recognized religious minority in the kingdom — the bishops at least tried to monopolize the local centres and objects of devotion , which might have presented a focus of religious power outside their control . |
| 29 | Paul thus neatly avoided a vote expressly on this issue , which might have revealed the Council fathers to have been more or less evenly divided . |
| 30 | Avoiding a black/white categorization which might have revealed the impact of racism , this oversimplified ethnic categorization results in an association between black educational underachievement and a notion of ‘ West Indianness ’ . |