Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] might have " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was as well that I was unable to visit the Aran Isles , for if they had changed since the 1930s my disappointment might have been too great to bear . |
| 2 | ‘ My parents might have spent every penny they earned on helping their out-of-work friends , but Gran brought me up to be thrifty and never to get into debt . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ For all either of us knows my business might have boomed . |
| 4 | In any case , my father was obviously a bit of an embarrassment to his brother : Harold Swan pressed home the point that my father might have a fit during a performance . |
| 5 | If I had to Oxford my finger might have come off bythe time I got there |
| 6 | Charlie 's departure is the first of several , and this event is succeeded by the announcement of a further theme when the rabbi 's thunderings pass over the heads of his congregation and the writer notes : ‘ in later years I would wonder how different my life might have been if a few people , those closest to me , had been frightened — just a little . ’ |
| 7 | I often wondered how different my life might have been if I had had a wife and family to come home to all these years . |
| 8 | Lord Aldington , 75 , said : ‘ I think I dictated ‘ silence ’ and my secretary might have typed ‘ subterfuge ’ . ' |
| 9 | I did not venture to express my opinion , fearing that my taste might have become corrupted by my long residence in the Indies ; but since my companion had recently come from France , it was quite a relief to hear him say that he had seen nothing in Europe quite so bold and majestic . ’ |
| 10 | My visit might have ended there if my car had not run short of petrol on the road south of Nahariya . |
| 11 | My mother might have taught me . |
| 12 | Their views might have attracted wider sympathy if the regime had been engaging in repression across the board , but although the tsar appeared to move to the right when he appointed Valuev to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Admiral Putiatin to the Ministry of Education , he was very far from abandoning the cause of reform . |
| 13 | I ca n't bring myself to tell her that if she 'd stayed dead her views might have carried more weight . |
| 14 | Tess also felt guilty that her presence might have influenced the farmer . |
| 15 | She 'd been wanting to go home all day , dragging on her teacher 's hand on the way in , looking over her shoulder just in case her mum might have popped her head round the gate for a last wave . |
| 16 | Perhaps in local communities where children might actually have Their trick might have been something entertaining erm and the treat itself might have been something like erm you know American |
| 17 | To the first readers of Middlemarch , however , an elaboration of her plans might have seemed redundant , for if her ambitions were unusual in her own time , they were routine responsibilities by the 1870s . |
| 18 | It is a tenable hypothesis that Bayezid II did indeed set a pattern and that many of the later foundations involving a joint muderris/muftilik were made simply in imitation of his precedent , though their effect might have been to create an official muftilik where none had existed before or to upgrade an existing muftilik ( which latter may well have been Bayezid II's intention in Amasya and Istanbul ) . |
| 19 | Well black leading was a sort of erm going out cleaning the old fireplaces , for people that were slightly better off than we were , their husbands might have been a tram driver or a railway driver . |
| 20 | So self-absorbed was she that she never considered for one minute that her words might have hurt him in exchange . |
| 21 | Without a word , Jane turned and fled into the sitting room , leaving Patrick alone on the stairs , wondering what her reply might have been . |
| 22 | This has taken a number of forms and has not spread as widely as some of its supporters might have hoped . |
| 23 | For her , their lovemaking might have been an almost mystical fusing of bodies and identities , yet for him it had been no more than a roll in the hay . |
| 24 | She shuddered when she thought what her fate might have been . |
| 25 | For one thing Miss Martineau writes well ( although her editor might have dampened an American passion for ‘ inside of ’ and ‘ outside of ’ , and corrected her mistaken belief that Boeing made McDonnell Douglas 's DC-10 airliner ) . |
| 26 | For example , planners in China do not seem aware of the cohort structure their population might have in decades to come if the drastic reductions in fertility introduced in the 1970s are maintained for 20 or 30 years . |
| 27 | But now it looked as if her job might have taken a different turn . |
| 28 | Not playing her piano might have meant not going to Rickmansworth but he still went . |
| 29 | Her guests might have preferred to drink their tea on the verandah outside , since at that moment it was not raining . |
| 30 | She had not , however , until last night , supposed that her husband might have a living near the Julians . |