Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] might have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ For all either of us knows my business might have boomed . |
| 2 | If I had to Oxford my finger might have come off bythe time I got there |
| 3 | Lord Aldington , 75 , said : ‘ I think I dictated ‘ silence ’ and my secretary might have typed ‘ subterfuge ’ . ' |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | My visit might have ended there if my car had not run short of petrol on the road south of Nahariya . |
| 6 | My mother might have taught me . |
| 7 | Tess also felt guilty that her presence might have influenced the farmer . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | But now it looked as if her job might have taken a different turn . |
| 11 | Not playing her piano might have meant not going to Rickmansworth but he still went . |
| 12 | But right now she was more concerned about the effect her behaviour might have had on his offer to her mother . |
| 13 | As she flew up to her room , she thought her father might have killed her for that speech . |
| 14 | After this she returned to the house hoping against hope that in the interval her daughter might have returned , but there was no sign of her . |
| 15 | Edward realized that there would be no fourth time , whatever her message might have said . |
| 16 | Her self-confidence might have taken a battering , but that was no reason to forfeit the personal standards her parents had instilled into her since childhood . |
| 17 | Their fitness might have protected them , but the stress of competitive sport could have been damaging . |
| 18 | Two blocks away from the house of her childhood it suddenly occurred to her that her mother might have left , that there might be strangers in the hallway , a different set of curtains hanging at the windows ; her father 's study might have been turned into a playroom for a new generation of North Oxford children , so different from herself in her prim Clark 's T-bar sandals that she would not be able to recognise her own infancy in theirs . |
| 19 | A bit of romanticism his mistress might have abhorred , Ruth suspected , as she had hardly enamoured herself with the locals , nor they with her . |
| 20 | May the author once again intrude upon whatever mood his narrative might have established long enough to report on current events ? ’ |
| 21 | With 20 minutes gone , his debut might have entered the dream category but for a fingertip save from Andy Goram . |
| 22 | That if that 's an old fashioned design , I mean we designed that as being something that his granny might have had . |
| 23 | It is tempting to speculate that were it not for the onset of the protracted illness in February 1858 Which led to his death in September 1859 , his influence might have produced a very different outcome to the competition . |
| 24 | On Dr Neil this had an effect even more erotic than any more intimate caressing of his body might have produced . |
| 25 | An alternative explanation for Abu Nidal involvement was the suggestion that his group might have carried out the killings on behalf of the Iraqi regime ; this version depended on the suggestion that Abu Iyad , while publicly backing the PLO 's pro-Iraqi line , was expressing reservations about it to Arafat in private . |
| 26 | However , his wife might have done so , if — ’ |
| 27 | Ten more years of his pontificate might have set both the church and the statesmanship of western Europe in a different direction . |
| 28 | The idea that his father might have visited prostitutes came to him years ago , during a spate of murders of prostitutes . |
| 29 | Another time his father might have laughed or mildly remonstrated about the cruelty of the imitation . |
| 30 | It is almost as if Thomas was trying to create , in fiction , an alternative pattern his life might have followed . |