Example sentences of "he might well have " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the look of him he might well have left a genuine World War Two leather bomber jacket in the bedroom . |
| 2 | It occurred to me that he might well have heard me and decided not to answer . |
| 3 | Had Wapnick won yesterday , he might well have reached the last eight . |
| 4 | Joyfully and thankfully reconciled with me , and having proved himself in a very arduous campaign , he might well have rested on his laurels in comfort and safety , waiting for the war to end or to be drafted to some new theatre of operations . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , Shackel 's unfortunate man had been done to death by his two attackers , and Peck now had a manslaughter case on his hands , a crime he might well have prevented . |
| 6 | He might well have settled to be a good chief for the clan that you say you 're so concerned for , Eachuinn Maclean . |
| 7 | Yanto realised he might well have to make a special journey to pick up the old man if Julie happened to be out . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , a wide variety of courts administered a wide variety of laws all over western Europe ; and if one asked a man in any part of Europe to whose law he was subject , he might well have answered ‘ to my law ’ — for law was a personal thing , which a man might carry about with him ; it bound him to the courts to which his ancestors had been subject , to the laws of those courts , and gave him the privileges which those courts provided . |
| 9 | Had he not been so short of time he might well have found 25 … |
| 10 | Thus his conduct very well illustrates the maxim ‘ Look before you leap ’ ; and if his final decision was made when the trend of circumstances was making it harder to leave home , he might well have recalled ‘ He who hesitates is lost ’ . |
| 11 | Now having overcoming the shock of his surprise defection from the other side of the Pennines , it appears he might well have the same effect on United . |
| 12 | The fee was n't much , but Harford wanted a club in the south and that was it — not much consolation for Kendall , who knows he might well have done for Everton what he 's doing for Chelsea , helping to turn them into a real Premier League force . |
| 13 | He might well have made some bargain with the Plantagenet — after all , this Edward owed something , for it was here , to Dunbar Castle , that his father , Edward the Second , had fled for refuge after the disaster of Bannockburn when Patrick , as a young man , had received him kindly and provided him passage by sea to England . |
| 14 | He travelled as a seaman to Sydney where he won the Australian heavyweight title before transferring to San Francisco where he was persuaded by the Earl of Lonsdale to operate in England , a move which enhanced his status greatly , as a contemporary noted : ‘ I knew him in the days of his greatness when sitting on top of the pugilistic world , fêted and lionized , he might well have been excused some slight vanity ’ ( quoted by Henderson , 1949 , pp.20–1 ) . |
| 15 | The man was in civilian clothes , yet , in this city thronged with soldiers , he had a confidence that suggested he might well have worn a uniform in his time . |
| 16 | If Leland had gone there , he might well have described the eastern Weald as he did the Forest of Dean : ‘ more fruitful of wood and grass than corn ’ with ‘ many iron mines and forges ’ ; yet although he judged it self-sufficient in corn , Dean was very much poorer than the Weald . |
| 17 | And he might well have dismissed the Flemish court , with its prince who hedged and ditched , its chancellor who audited accounts , as mercenary . |
| 18 | Now Millns is established as one of the most feared and effective fast bowlers on the county circuit , and he might well have been called up for England 's final Test at The Oval but for injury . |
| 19 | He might well have written ‘ Thank God I am not a Freudian ’ , even though he had a great concern with preserving psychoanalysis as a coherent method and theoretical approach to human action . |
| 20 | But he might well have added a word of recognition for the conductor who from beginning to end helped bring out Björling 's superb best : Nils Grevillius ( 1893–1970 ) . |
| 21 | He has told us now what he might well have feared the dead man could tell us . |
| 22 | She did n't because the moment was not right ; she did not yet know that she could not plead from her position of privilege that she had suffered too — ‘ So you want to annex our wrongs as well , do you ? ’ he might well have answered to her in just bitterness . |
| 23 | Getting on in years , he might well have considered the possibility of never seeing his homeland again . |
| 24 | He might well have been working a small place on his own behalf . |
| 25 | The dark circles under his eyes suggested he might well have spent the entire night going through them on a tape recorder , but it had n't helped . |
| 26 | When she glanced at him again he looked very grim and she wondered if she should have told Mitch that he might well have a lot of opportunity to photograph Spain — on foot as he walked back to Málaga . |
| 27 | I think he might he might well have enjoyed it . |
| 28 | Something in his face suggested to her that he might well have done , perhaps . |
| 29 | She had no idea why he had telephoned her , though she did n't put it out of the realms of possibility that , having gone away when he 'd promised to think about the interview , he might well have rung to suggest some alternative . |
| 30 | He might well have formed his own opinion but he knew that would not bear cross-examination at some later date . |