Example sentences of "they might have [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can get an idea of how they might have breathed by looking at modern fish . |
| 2 | Being unexpectedly faced by samples of one or the other could convert some to forms of expression which they might have ignored for the rest of their lives . |
| 3 | Perhaps they might have developed into friends . |
| 4 | They were country people in a sense that Melanie was not , although she had just come from the green fields and they might have lived in London all their lives . |
| 5 | Er they may have had some inkling , but you know they might have applied for a timings , you know it suddenly comes . |
| 6 | The dummies in the windows wore clothes so unlike Helen 's that they might have stepped from some other culture : rainbow colours , fabrics of wondrous texture and design , skirts like puffballs or split like a dancer 's . |
| 7 | ‘ I suppose they might have done at the beginning , ’ he said , ‘ but by the time I can remember we had become part of the place really . |
| 8 | Using a democratic structure of rotating the roles of therapist and patient , it encourages people to express previous hurts in ways they might have done as children if that had been allowed . |
| 9 | Characters are cut-outs , mental events are banned as if the Bloomsbury tradition needed to be ruthlessly exorcised , and names like Miles Malpractice in Vile Bodies explain character in boldly extra-realistic ways , much as they might have done in Bunyan 's Pilgrim 's Progress . |
| 10 | Certainly some of the productions that we are responsible for , as I have said , are controversial , and some of the public might not really want them and might dispute their validity , but I think what it is an indication of is the fact that people are short of money and have to make quite sure that they are getting the best value for what they are paying for and they ca n't afford to go to the theatre as regularly as they might have done in the past . |
| 11 | They might have swapped with him , but he could n't ask it : their need was greater than his . |
| 12 | The think tanks therefore had a much greater influence than they might have achieved with any other party . |
| 13 | But they might have remained as also-rans if the rhynchosaurs had not already been driven into extinction |
| 14 | Although Beckenham U.D.C. had powers to construct a tramway system , which they might have leased to the B.E.T. , and had built a power station in Churchfields Road , they now had second thoughts about tramways and were thinking in terms of permitting the B.E.T . |
| 15 | The dismal nature of English teaching for O and A level in the past can perhaps be accounted for largely by the numbers of pupils entered for the examinations who were not in fact suited to study literature ( though they might have benefited from an advanced study of their own language ) . |
| 16 | Now , however , the French , no matter what they might have thought of American rhetoric , could at least pretend that they took it seriously and that their actions were being taken in defence of ‘ the free world ’ . |
| 17 | Without it they might have driven past the track and searched on fruitlessly . |
| 18 | They might have got on the wrong side of the man in black , but the Comrades made an awful lot of friends . |
| 19 | If they had agreed with British Airways , I could understand that they might have left the issue alone , but they might have come to different conclusions and taken different action . |
| 20 | The women who sat beside a single basket of herbs , or wild mushrooms they had gathered that morning in the dew , high in the hills , were tanned so dark they might have washed in walnut juice . |
| 21 | No doubt it would have been so to Descartes , Malebranche , and Locke : they might have agreed with Berkeley that what we perceive are ideas . |
| 22 | ‘ They might have happened by now if you 'd just let me see this … opera , TV series , pop-up-book , whatever the hell it is ; and if you 'd let me talk to a few people . |
| 23 | They might have belonged to a different species . |
| 24 | No matter how poor the programming , if these dishes had been as glossy and futuristic as compact discs , say , then they might have caught on as rapidly as , well , CDs themselves . |
| 25 | Each of them might have engaged a separate average adjuster to advise him : had these not agreed , a dispute could have arisen between the parties which they might have submitted to arbitrationa somewhat unusual course in business of this kind . |
| 26 | ( The Tonga Chronicle gave due prominence to the storm the following week , though they might have wished for more careful sub-editing. ‘ $10 damage as islands hit by hurricane ’ read the headline . |
| 27 | The list of British craft union leaders of this period is filled with men who worked for a spell in the United States or somewhere else overseas , as they might have worked for a spell in Newcastle or Barrow-in-Furness . |
| 28 | They might have sat in the same prison cell as he was sitting in now . |
| 29 | A male without testes would live longer than a , than a male with them , undoubtedly , on average five to seven years longer , and erm generally be more healthy in terms of avoiding a lot of problems that , that they might have had through being male . |
| 30 | Over the years I watched as senior officers struggled to come to terms with our bizarre presence , which overcame any respect they might have had for our practical mastery of dealing with a world they were wary of . |