Example sentences of "he [verb] he might have " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I told him about the tramp , and he thinks he might have started the fire by knocking his pipe out on the dry grass . ’ |
| 2 | In April 1816 , musing after John Brownrigg 's death , he says he might have thought differently of him had he been born in Ambleside , ‘ the moral code of the people here not being like that of many other places . ’ |
| 3 | He says he might have been a clerk or a waiter if he had gone ; he sees very clearly how circumstances makes lives . |
| 4 | Legend has it that Rawlins remembered the lot although yesterday he confessed he might have forgotten one . |
| 5 | The only impressions from his heavy sleep which touched him with a faintest trace were mysteriously , elusively compounded of plumed candle flame , drumming rain , a ship held by ice , huddled sheep , and a malignant shadow stooped-muttering over a desk or table or bench in a room or a cell he thought he might have been able to recognize if only he could have opened his eyes . |
| 6 | The only impressions from his heavy sleep which touched him with a faintest trace were elusively compounded of dank , dripping trees , dazzling headlights , stairways , huddled sheep , a ship held by ice mast-high , and a sick man with skin blotched with words gibbering upon a bed in a room in a house he thought he might have been able to recognize if only he could have opened his eyes . |
| 7 | In his office the manager said that he thought he might have a part going , and then looked at Arthur for a long time . |
| 8 | ' … which he thought he might have been wearing that afternoon and then changed his mind and said he had n't , ’ continued Harris , unperturbed by the interruption . |
| 9 | One day , he would get to the bottom of Maggie 's behaviour , although he knew he might have to get her drunk first and she was even wary of sipping wine . |
| 10 | And I 'd sure see you had a lovely time , ’ he went on with almost too much intensity in his voice , so that he feared he might have frightened her off . |
| 11 | He felt he might have been a lord , or at least a prosperous shopkeeper about to be driven to his mansion — except that there was no horse . |
| 12 | Mr Dass did not reply , for there was nothing he felt he might have said . |
| 13 | If he had he might have wondered … |
| 14 | He had n't recognised Jane Leeson ; if he had he might have stopped . |
| 15 | If he slept he might have nightmares about Will and Chessie . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , he said he might 've killed somebody . ’ |
| 17 | He admits he might have been a little too young for the job , ‘ but after Yves had done it at Dior , everyone thought a young designer was the thing and of course there was n't that much to do , a collection of 60 or 70 dresses , twice a year . ’ |