Example sentences of "might have come " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was sort of hoping any other people who were interested in standing for re-election might have came along to this Committee to show their |
| 2 | She wanted to see reconstructions of the accident , diagrams of how it might have come about . |
| 3 | Before the darkness came , you might have come across him at times pushing a pramful of camping equipment , perhaps with a grandson straggling at his side , on some remote road through Eigiau , Abergeirw or Pennant Lliw . |
| 4 | ‘ I wondered if she might have come into the office on the Saturday ? ’ |
| 5 | Perhaps then I might have come to understand her , and instead of just doing my duty ( as I thought ) , to love her … |
| 6 | For instance : Donald White might have come home with his mother 's laundry , read a chunk of Moby Dick , shot a few baskets , and kicked back to watch The Arsenio Hall Show . |
| 7 | ... But no , for he had said her heart was badly damaged , death might have come at any time . |
| 8 | It has a charming , white stuccoed wiggly gable , two windows wide , that might have come from Amsterdam with the King 's guns . |
| 9 | This might have come from a WEA rally . |
| 10 | It is Possible that she might have come to the big city on her own . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , he might have come back . |
| 12 | That herd was apparently shy , rather fierce and polled and it is possible that the Ardrossan was ancestral to the White Galloway , or its coat colour might have come from the other White Park herds in Scotland ( for example at Cadzow Forest near Hamilton , Blair Atholl in northern Perthshire , the Duke of Buccleuch 's estate at Dalkeith , the Cumbernauld estate or Cally Palace at Gatehouse-of-Fleet ) . |
| 13 | He had a lean face and dark eyes that might have come from either his Gaelic or Jewish ancestry . |
| 14 | Yet this was not a criminal trial but a judicial inquiry , and even if Lane wanted to chance his arm by putting the question , Brabin might have come to my rescue by explaining it . |
| 15 | By 1939 it was widely believed that no more wooden aeroplanes would be built and this might have come true if the War had not created shortages of aluminium and of the machinery and skilled men for handling it . |
| 16 | He pauses , his mind running over the sort of life the couple led , the pressures , the way the split might have come . |
| 17 | Just consider the additional impact that might have come from more popular scheduled kick-off times ( floodlit games all round ? ) when , again in ABC1 men ratings , New Zealand v Italy ‘ scored ’ 11 per cent , Wales v Argentine 16 per cent , France v Canada 11 per cent , New Zealand v Canada 13 per cent and Australia v New Zealand 16 per cent . |
| 18 | He believes that had he remained in Belfast , his elevation to the Ulster team and the Irish squad might have come much earlier . |
| 19 | A tidy desk and behind it a man who might have come in on the Saturday afternoon for extra work . |
| 20 | Darwin was not the first to marvel but he made the notion of such adaptedness scientifically respectable by providing an explanation of how it might have come about . |
| 21 | Had the student acted without regard to either of these considerations , then the act of admission to residential care might have come to represent for John an aggressive act against him rather than one which was intended to be supportive . |
| 22 | She had initially thought he might have come to reclaim the Madam 's brothel — in which case he was going to have a mysterious and fatal accident . |
| 23 | Causation or some of it might have come to an end just when I set out to snuff the candles , or never existed . |
| 24 | What we will say , if we keep clearly in mind that everything might have been the same up to the instant when the bar came out , and no bar might have come out is that nothing caused the bar to come out . |
| 25 | The time might have come when they would find reasons why the King could do no right and why no kingly head deserved to wear the cap of Liberty . |
| 26 | After a few minutes , his breathing quickened and he started making noises that might have come from a monkey-house at feeding time . |
| 27 | Then you ask how it might have come about that the murderer made that mistake , and already , when eventually you tell of this from the other end , from the discovery of the corpse , you have got something that will require a reader to make a lateral jump to see what really happened . |
| 28 | Left to themselves , folk musicians did what they could without the guidance which might have come from experienced musicians . |
| 29 | I have no idea how I might have come by it . |
| 30 | ‘ I thought perhaps Stephen 's brother might have come to the party with you ? ’ |