Example sentences of "might have [verb] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they must be for ever content to owe to the English that elegance and culture , which , if they had been vigilant and active , perhaps the English might have owed to them . ’ |
| 2 | I shook my head and bent back to my work , but every now and again , as I was writing or just thinking , a niggling little side-track thought would distract me , and I 'd find myself remembering Janice 's words , and wondering what exactly Uncle Rory might have hidden within his later work ( if he really had hidden anything ) . |
| 3 | You might have heard of her . |
| 4 | You might have heard of him : Terence Lewis ? ’ |
| 5 | If a collector had acquired the ancient cross , Wartski 's experts might have heard of it through the dealers ' grapevine . |
| 6 | you might have heard of it and you might not . |
| 7 | Some of you might have heard about it in the press . |
| 8 | I 've been lucky to be able to launch the first concept of dread disease insurance , in South Africa you might have heard about us . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , all Heather 's friends and relatives have racked their brains for clues as to what might have become of her , as you can imagine , and I remembered her mentioning visiting you here a few months ago . ’ |
| 10 | 2.42 As regards the savings that would have been made by the deceased , Lord Reid thought that the widow and daughter would have had an interest in any capital that the deceased might have accumulated before his death , but he concluded that the widow might have died before her husband whereas the daughter would almost certainly have survived him . |
| 11 | Even Marie herself might have confessed to you that it was ‘ daft ’ : she saw how improbable it was , but in her desperate need for comfort , for attention and affection , she still believed it … . |
| 12 | ‘ I just thought you might have run across him . |
| 13 | Killed whatever Guy might have felt for her ? |
| 14 | ‘ I told him that he is violent , has mistreated her very badly , have been trigger happy and whatever kindness he might have done for her he had cancelled by beatings and threats he had made on her life . |
| 15 | She pro she might have done to me but I ca n't remember . |
| 16 | Thank goodness we were never occupied — not so much because of what the occupiers might have done to us , but because of what we would probably have done to each other . |
| 17 | He just , he might have done in his younger days . |
| 18 | Those who took an interest in Clara might have seen in his death the loss of an ally , because outwardly at least he appeared to be more intelligent than his wife ; at least he did not scorn in public , as she did , all efforts of the mind , and all the aims of education . |
| 19 | Leith asked , unable in her constant nagging worry about the mortgage to resist the hope that he might have referred to it , and given some indication of what he intended to do about repaying his half . |
| 20 | You 're just looking to see if there are any aspects of a person 's drive where , you know , one or two habits might have crept in which could possibly encroach upon safety margins to some extent . |
| 21 | We may say that a living body or organ is well designed if it has attributes that an intelligent and knowledgeable engineer might have built into it in order to achieve some sensible purpose , such as flying , swimming , seeing , eating , reproducing , or more generally promoting the survival and replication of the organism 's genes . |
| 22 | Deputy Head ( Staff ) pressed her about personal ambitions and about what difference the review might have made to her : |
| 23 | However much she might have set herself up to be hurt , she told herself defiantly , selecting white Bermudas and a cool Chinese-style silk blouse from her small selection of clothes , however much of a fool she might have made of herself , she would n't change a thing . |
| 24 | Of course , these are not the same sort of friends that she might have met on her débutante rounds or at Royal Ascot , but as she says , social class goes out the window beyond the prison walls . |
| 25 | But as she returned to her room and closed the door , she silently thanked him that , when rather than encroach on his privacy she might have kept to her room , he had on their arrival thought to invite her to share his sitting-room for half an hour . |
| 26 | But soon he is forced by famine to go down to Egypt , and when he is about to cross the border he resorts to a ploy which knocks him straight off any pedestal we might have erected for him . |
| 27 | There was one in particular which might have stayed in your mind . |
| 28 | She might have guessed at his answer . |
| 29 | Actually the Voice is Gandalf 's , as we might have guessed from its asperity , and as is anyway confirmed at II , 99 : it may seem fair enough to let a wizard oppose a necromancer . |
| 30 | I was beginning to have quite a good time , and might have imagined for myself a series of tragic scenes of truly poetic power and solemn grandeur , and was wondering how my dear and attractive wife would look in widow 's weeds , when this character started speaking on the radio , and totally ruined my train of thought . |