Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] might have " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Wilson was obviously embarrassed by my statement and sought to identify any particular honorands whom I might have in mind . |
| 3 | So I mean if I I might have magnesium carbonate and I drop hydrochloric acid on |
| 4 | In other words , she is someone who might have difficulty with spelling as she grows , but could be helped now to become a competent speller . |
| 5 | The result is that instead of trying to recover the often indeterminable illocutionary force intended by the author for this or that character , the actor finds himself inventing someone who might have wished to express this or that speech act by means of the speeches assigned to him in the text . |
| 6 | " Shakespeare " denotes someone who might have had any number of different characteristics . |
| 7 | Except — someone who might have watched her — followed her … |
| 8 | He came out of it as someone who might have committed a slight indiscretion , no more , and a heterosexual one at that . |
| 9 | Did you never have someone you might have married ? |
| 10 | We 're nothing , of ourselves we might have thought we had but it was of no value whatsoever , but he took us , he says , now you 're something because you belong to me . |
| 11 | ‘ You mean to tell me , ’ Mrs Wilson interrupted , ‘ that you went round every secretarial agency in London asking about someone they might have employed fourteen years before , someone who most likely had changed her name , and you expected to succeed ? ’ |
| 12 | I mean in som In some ways in the word my it might have part of that symbol you write with a J in it . |
| 13 | The Word of God records the words of the Lord Jesus Christ in John chapter 16 verse 33 when He said ‘ These things I have spoken unto you , that IN ME YE MIGHT HAVE PEACE . ’ |
| 14 | I could n't up sticks and away , which I might have done otherwise — regretting it afterwards . |
| 15 | So , European traditions were a sort of net in which you might have got caught ? |
| 16 | Another aspect of organisations which you might have discovered is that organisations are constantly changing . |
| 17 | It 's also worth applying for other jobs that appeal and for which you might have a chance . |
| 18 | Er I mean that goes back again to the articles which you might have about the way that parents talk to their children , and you quite often find that then very very quickly the children grow up speaking in a same way as the parent of that sex talked to the them . |
| 19 | Which you might have already had actually , but it did say insert three . |
| 20 | How strange that from all the many places to which she might have been drafted , chance had come up with Ardneavie . |
| 21 | And she was well past the point at which she might have stopped her headlong dive into that dizzying state . |
| 22 | Maria turned clear eyes , golden-brown tonight , on Luke and said what needed to be said , eschewing preamble , cleverness and a host of other possible costumes in which she might have dressed it up . |
| 23 | 6.5 An interesting result of testing the possibilities of occurrence with an indefinite head is that it brings out the doubtful validity of certain other cases which Bolinger cites ( and which one might have regarded suspiciously on purely intuitive grounds anyway ) . |
| 24 | There are some changes which one might have expected , but which have not been introduced . |
| 25 | However , although he says this , partly to emphasise that the truth of the matter is quite independent of the question whether we know it , it would seem reasonable to expect that , if there is a real truth here into which we might have rational insight , careful attention to just what is at issue will bring about convergence . |
| 26 | By contrast in Kufra people did acknowledge circumstances in which they might have to unite with their enemies ; in 1978 they did in fact do so . |
| 27 | Officers seemed to gain easier exemption from building regulations and from restrictions on landlordism ; their attempts to influence judges in cases in which they might have only an indirect interest were also reported , in private , by judges . |
| 28 | Although Beckenham U.D.C. had powers to construct a tramway system , which they might have leased to the B.E.T. , and had built a power station in Churchfields Road , they now had second thoughts about tramways and were thinking in terms of permitting the B.E.T . |
| 29 | When Reid ( 1986 ) identified seven causes of disruptive behaviour ( underachievement , the family , links between school and parents , peer group relationships , the gulf between the general public and teachers , schooling per se and teachers ) , I believe that he highlighted the very issues schools need to turn their attention to and over which they might have significant influence . |
| 30 | As a result of central government policies , Islington social services suffered 8 per cent cuts in 1987/8 and all departments were asked to produce proposals for cuts of up to a further 25 per cent which they might have to achieve over the next two years . |