Example sentences of "might [vb infin] [vb pp] [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The example of Alain Robbe-Grillet , who acknowledges a debt to Joyce as well as to Sartre and Gide , offered from the late 1950s onwards a renewed incentive to experiment , at a moment when British writers might have felt themselves particularly distanced from modernism . |
| 2 | He got off the mark with an uppish straight drive for four , which might have given a less myopic bowler than Malcolm a return catch , and in Malcolm 's next over , he attempted a square slash which , if he had got an edge , might have prevented him ever setting foot in India again . |
| 3 | It might have cost you more to get it than the gold was worth . |
| 4 | ‘ Mr Kettering might have told me how to dress . |
| 5 | It was n't as though Tim Sherwood or Gordon Cowans let the side down , just the thought — shared I 'm sure by Kenny Dalglish — that a master craftsman might have tried something else to unlock Tottenham 's well-manned fortress . |
| 6 | She might have found herself unexpectedly welcome when he had returned , furious , from her own rejection . |
| 7 | I , I sort of heard Debbie and Chris talking the other day , and I might have got it totally mixed up , but I reckon , I heard Chris saying that , well basically what I gathered was that Andy might have a different father to Chris and it was Andy 's father that 's died , right ? |