Example sentences of "might have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The loss of the holy day holidays might have annoyed the local inhabitants more than it did the off-comers . |
| 2 | Left to my own devices I think I might have shrugged my shoulders and accepted it . |
| 3 | Had Theodora not been her father 's daughter , and therefore beautifully bred , she might have snorted at such palpable idiocy |
| 4 | There were fears that the Liverpool boss might have to quit the game when he went into hospital last April for triple heart by-pass surgery . |
| 5 | What was important , however , was the danger that an unpredictable politician , potentially hostile to Western interests , might have manipulated oil flows in order to control crude oil prices . |
| 6 | ‘ If I had missed it , it might have destroyed me . ’ |
| 7 | The public fantasies of television might have destroyed the need for private ones . |
| 8 | Given time , he might have destroyed the British Union of Fascists single-handed by his cold-hearted vindictiveness . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He might have destroyed Arabella 's letters to Newley , but he could n't rid his memory of their contents . |
| 11 | Had the batsman not ducked , the ball might have struck him in the solar plexus . |
| 12 | Melanie could not have supported a laughing , singing Victoria for breakfast and Uncle Philip might have struck the baby , which would have been dreadful . |
| 13 | I was afraid I might have struck one of the days you are n't here . ’ |
| 14 | This at least showed some foresight , since the number of beds in which Stephen might have missed a heartbeat and a vital document were legion . |
| 15 | We think we might have missed something . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It was hanging over the side of the quarry , and she might have missed seeing it if the handles had n't been bright-red . |
| 18 | Thousands of imported sheep had left their devastating mark and the latest ‘ crop ’ , the deer , finished off any saplings the sheep might have missed when they came down from the high tops in the winter . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | We passed Cap Bon ( in the distance ) and Pantelleria , the latter at sea level — which was just as well as it was raining at the time , otherwise we might have missed it and also because we were told afterwards that there was an airfield there with Bf110s . |
| 21 | Then , in missing the trial because of my collarbone injury , I thought I might have missed my chance because Greig Oliver played very well in the trial . |
| 22 | Mature enough , in any case , to be recreating works from past decades for those who might have missed them . |
| 23 | A small metal bowl of sulphur powders still burned in the hearth to eradicate whatever pestilential airs the vapourizing vinegar might have missed . |
| 24 | He was thumbing through USA Today for the umpteenth time , looking for something he might have missed , when he heard her giggling . |
| 25 | I might have missed that , altogether . ’ |
| 26 | We might have missed Stanley . |
| 27 | He might have missed Newley 's departure . |
| 28 | Lucy said , clambering to her feet and then looking around for anywhere that she might have missed . |
| 29 | However , both Royal Scottish and the Bank , might have missed out on the business had it not been for quick-thinking Dave Chinchen , a Bank Officer at Southampton High Street Branch . |
| 30 | For those who might have missed his point however , Williams wrote for the ‘ Trinidad Guardian ’ soon after , ‘ I see in the denominational school the breeding ground of disunity ; I see in the state school the opportunity for cultivating a spirit of nationalism among West Indian people and eradicating the racial suspicions and antagonisms growing in our midst ’ . |