Example sentences of "[pers pn] might [verb] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would n't speak to me for six months , but then his natural goodness of heart , as well perhaps as his gradual realization that I might have been right , that perhaps I had saved him from a fate worse than death , made it impossible for him to keep it up . |
| 2 | I was duly slapped down by my more knowledgeable tectonic seniors , and tried to forget the brief publication in question , but later work has now led me to suspect that I might have been right after all . |
| 3 | Now , I 'm , I might have been remiss on this , but we had to do this in a hurry , erm , to get names in , and , but it 's been suggested by erm , the leader of the er , Conservative group on , on this Committee , that erm , a , a , member from each should , major group should go , and er , I 'm quite , I 'm quite inordinate , in favour of this , if we can get erm , bookings there now . |
| 4 | If human communication were a simple matter of reciprocally exchanged words , if words had no resonances beyond themselves , I might have been proud to be cast in such a role , and either self-confident enough in my ability to fulfil it , or else realistic enough to modify my directives and declare myself in favour of some more modest role . |
| 5 | If she or I had taken more trouble I might have been convinced that all religious people were cruel hypocrites . |
| 6 | He said slowly and dangerously , ‘ I daresay I might have been four bob down at the end of an evening . |
| 7 | ‘ True , ’ said Isambard , grinning at him , ‘ it 's a pity to think I might have been dead by this , and you ten miles away on your road home . |
| 8 | ‘ I might have been American . ’ |
| 9 | But on the whole the bundles of blanket and piled clothing in the beds did not seem alive at all and I might have been alone in the block . |
| 10 | Had the Eradicator been a Taiwanese import , I might have been sceptical . |
| 11 | And this was cracked fracture from osteoporosis now , if I had been getting H R T at that time I might have been less disfigured . |
| 12 | If I had been counting , or had been more familiar with the aircraft or the sequence , I might have been ready for him . |
| 13 | I knew now that I might have been foolish to have expected so much from Waite , but he had been the only person who 'd been willing to treat both kidnappers and hostages as human beings and to attempt some kind of understanding about how the situation could be resolved . |
| 14 | I might have been able to afford to pay them on the spot because of the win , but I still had to get home on the train that night . |
| 15 | ‘ If only he had confided in me earlier I might have been able to help . |
| 16 | I might have been able to pay you off within six months ! ’ |
| 17 | ‘ If we 'd known , my father and I might have been able to help him ! |
| 18 | I know what kind of an ordeal you 've had tonight , and , although I might have been willing to tease you before to take your mind off it and give you something else to think about , I do n't intend to ravish you to complete the treatment ! ’ |
| 19 | It was necessary to show that at least some of them might have been first acquired through the will , in order to satisfy a desire , or to relieve a disagreeable sensation . |
| 20 | She might have been present now . |
| 21 | Still , she might have been nicer to the kindly old man . |
| 22 | She might have been daft in some ways , but she knew what was in and what was out , did Mary M. She knew the right clubs to go to . |
| 23 | " Oh give her a lump of sugar , " he said ; she might have been one of his least favourite horses . |
| 24 | Miss but by god she had a good aim , she might have been bloody dotty |
| 25 | She might have been sixty or sixty-five . |
| 26 | Although she might have been wise to add that even the life of a Television Presenter 2nd Class is a doddle compared to packing frozen peas , doing a 12-hour nursing shift in an understaffed hospital ward or for that matter being married to David Mellor . |
| 27 | She might have been soft-hearted and vulnerable once , where he was concerned , but she was a lot older and wiser now . |
| 28 | She did n't sign , and whatever words she might have been able to lipread were lost because the lighting in the delivery room was terrible . |
| 29 | Mr Crichton said if Leslie had been armed with such a baton — which is standard issue for officers in the United States — she might have been able to protect herself . |
| 30 | Under different circumstances , she might have been able to appreciate the irony of it . |