Example sentences of "he [verb] might have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gradually , however , he realized that he could become a detective investigating his own past and that what he gleaned might have a bearing on the present . |
| 2 | Although Barraclough 's ( 1972 ) suggestion that as many as a fifth of the suicides in a series he studied might have been prevented by the wider use of lithium would be difficult to substantiate and is probably an overestimate , the fact that the lives of as many as 16 per cent of patients with manic-depressive illness may end in suicide ( Pitts and Winokur 1964 ) suggests that lithium is likely to have an important role in the prevention of suicide in some patients . |
| 3 | That burgh was controlled by Provost John Cunningham , whose son was an officer of the Dutch army , and the provost made his wishes quite clear to one of the candidates who solicited the town 's vote whom he believed might have friends in the Netherlands . |
| 4 | To see more deeply is only to see what Eliot found in the epigraph from Heart of Darkness which he thought might have been ‘ somewhat elucidative ’ for The Waste Land . |
| 5 | He never had been capable of self-delusion which , in sprightlier moments , he thought might have been the true cause of his notable lack of advancement in politics . |
| 6 | Gazza said : ‘ Some of what he did might have been wrong but I respect the fact that Maradona made himself the player Napoli could n't do without when he was in Italy . |
| 7 | The content of what he said might have chilled her if she had harboured any desire to stay longer — which , she told herself fiercely , she most definitely did not . |
| 8 | Alexei 's favourite spot was in what he supposed might have been termed a clearing — at least it was in the centre of a circle of four rocks , each one the size of a crouching man . |