Example sentences of "[coord] [Wh det] [pron] might have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Drawings were altered er instead of getting a whole sheet of a combined er er part of a , a steering gear or whatever it might have been , er they were all itemized and reduced to part pieces , and it was much easier to look , examine and find out what sizes were required than , you know , three dimensional er drawings . |
| 2 | or whatever she might have just said something in |
| 3 | Mrs Browning was still pale and shaky as we settled ourselves by the fire ( and what the moon saw , or what it might have seen if its beams could have penetrated the closely-drawn curtains supplemented by plastic sheeting to foil the poison gas , might have seemed a little unusual ; but who can tell what strange sights are enclosed within the cheerful light of a curtained window ? ) . |
| 4 | Even among that cosmopolitan crowd I felt awkward in my 1990s rented Renault runabout , but Berlin airport did not have anything for hire with half-tracks at the back , no period Kubelwagen Type 82 staff cars , a Schwimmwagen perhaps , or what I might have really gone for — an old Humber Super Snipe finished in khaki with white mudguards . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | He forgot , momentarily , about the MP and what he might have to say . |
| 7 | It was not in Richard Branson 's instincts to look back , but occasionally — just occasionally — he thought about Student , and what it might have become . |
| 8 | No member of the family knew her exact age and whatever they might have guessed she would have denied flatly . |
| 9 | The bell for Compline rang , the time she had set herself for hounding him out at the wicket , into a world he was , perhaps , already beginning to regret surrendering , but which he might have found none too hospitable to a runaway Benedictine novice . |
| 10 | I was simply trying to emulate … ’ but whatever she might have said was lost to the word forever as she crumpled bonelessly to the floor in a dead faint . |