Example sentences of "his [noun sg] might have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A bit of romanticism his mistress might have abhorred , Ruth suspected , as she had hardly enamoured herself with the locals , nor they with her . |
| 2 | May the author once again intrude upon whatever mood his narrative might have established long enough to report on current events ? ’ |
| 3 | With 20 minutes gone , his debut might have entered the dream category but for a fingertip save from Andy Goram . |
| 4 | That if that 's an old fashioned design , I mean we designed that as being something that his granny might have had . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | On Dr Neil this had an effect even more erotic than any more intimate caressing of his body might have produced . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | However , his wife might have done so , if — ’ |
| 9 | Ten more years of his pontificate might have set both the church and the statesmanship of western Europe in a different direction . |
| 10 | The idea that his father might have visited prostitutes came to him years ago , during a spate of murders of prostitutes . |
| 11 | Another time his father might have laughed or mildly remonstrated about the cruelty of the imitation . |
| 12 | It is almost as if Thomas was trying to create , in fiction , an alternative pattern his life might have followed . |
| 13 | Undoubtedly , in March 1914 , nine days after his thirty-seventh birthday , at one of the lowest ebbs in his fortune ( but soon after he had received a grant from the Royal Literary Fund ) , Thomas speculated in fictional form upon another path his life might have taken if he had left grammar school at sixteen and followed his father 's plan of a career in the Civil Service . |
| 14 | His grandmother might have married at thirteen , perhaps even twelve . |
| 15 | Frank Gray flopped all too quickly when his predecessor might have succeeded in taking the same squad to safety . |
| 16 | While he clearly believed what he was saying , and while his image might have faded from the general consciousness , Vitor d'Arcos was too commanding , too vital , too much the male sexual animal to ever be considered ordinary . |
| 17 | One dealer , desperate to work at one licensed dealer was kept at bay because his arrival might have attracted press publicity . |
| 18 | His memory might have gone , but he showed plenty of guts . |
| 19 | There was talk of the doctor saying his patient might have suffered a heart attack —' Nonsense ’ said Wilson — and then that her lungs were seized up —' They always have been , ’ fumed Wilson . |
| 20 | She had taken , this spring , to a sort of generalized reverence that looked as if it was planned to accommodate any new religion to which her son or his girl-friend might have become attached . |