Example sentences of "might [verb] [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well he got up that railway track , I mean , bloody hell , they might 've thought well that 's one way he 's gon na go . |
| 2 | It seems that many Breton lords relied heavily upon the profits of wreck to boost their incomes , and to abolish it might have caused yet another rebellion in an area where Angevin control was still fairly fragile . |
| 3 | However , as the contractor is free to time the work within the contract period it wold be illogical for the contractor to be able to claim the cost and time effects of an influence which might have caused further delay but did not in fact do so ; and in the situation described it is likely that the first cause rules . |
| 4 | Hostility towards the policies and corrupt practices associated with the Court Whigs might have caused more and more people to look on the possibility of a Stuart Restoration with increasing sympathy ; the fact that the Stuarts never renounced their Catholicism and remained closely identified with France explains why this growing sympathy was never translated into an effective challenge to the Protestant succession as guaranteed by the Glorious Revolution and the Act of Settlement . |
| 5 | On the other hand , like all French spas , it advertises the wonderful things it can do for your health progressively as you approach , by way of graduated signs fifty yards apart , each of which singles out an affliction or an organ that you might have treated here . |
| 6 | She did n't even know at what point friendship had turned into love , and if she had realised it when it happened the new bud of feeling might have blossomed crazily into hopeless longing and tongue-tied need … or perhaps it would have frosted away and died . |
| 7 | While it is quite possible that a different range of indicators might have served equally well in this setting as surface markers of an underlying variable of social integration , this particular set was selected in response to two methodological criteria . |
| 8 | 6.5 An interesting result of testing the possibilities of occurrence with an indefinite head is that it brings out the doubtful validity of certain other cases which Bolinger cites ( and which one might have regarded suspiciously on purely intuitive grounds anyway ) . |
| 9 | You might have noticed however , that people can spend small fortunes on themselves , go out to all the trendy places and stand around admiring themselves in their fashionable clothes but find that no one thinks any better of them for it . |
| 10 | Finally it was Alexei who made a noise , which might have indicated either disgust or anger , then brushed past . |
| 11 | What they might have heard however , had they been passing ten minutes later , even above the noise of the traffic and the raging of the wind , was a roar of someone in pain , a great and agonizing cry . |
| 12 | Detectives say the young woman was left badly shaken after the assault and have warned that the incident might have become more serious if it had gone on any longer . |
| 13 | Without such a mission , the second wave of English might have become as Irish as the Normans before them . |
| 14 | In the hands of a Christopher Isherwood some of these characters might have become as memorable as Sally Bowles in Goodbye To Berlin . |
| 15 | As the Cotswolds specialised in the production of fine wool , and Cirencester was one of the greatest marts in the land , strategically sited to serve both the Gloucestershire and Wiltshire manufacturing districts , with lesser centres at Chipping Campden and Northleach , the balance might have become decisively tilted towards sheep . |
| 16 | Mussolini might have entertained another fancy , Churchill might have become too drunk to cope , and so on . |
| 17 | But for parallel development in relation to the parliamentary franchise , the position thus brought about might have resembled too closely that which prevailed under the Stuarts , save only that the pretended despot would have been a Prime Minister , able to influence the composition of Parliament to an excessive degree , rather than a monarch claiming Divine Right . |
| 18 | " I 'm sorry , " he said , sounding as he might have sounded yesterday . |
| 19 | It might have sounded as flippant as the question was importunate . |
| 20 | You can make your own judgment as to what he , and others like him , might have totalled today . |
| 21 | I thought he might have run away , and was ringing to apologise for his previous calls . |
| 22 | Thus in the process of passing the 1833 Act , ‘ a tide which might have run much more strongly in the direction of the ‘ criminalization ’ of the offending employer was effectively stemmed' ( p.138 ) . |
| 23 | The following day I might have felt more disenchanted than ever , but news of the posting blotted out all other feelings . |
| 24 | Had Joss Barnet not joined her this morning she might have felt quite differently about the plan . |
| 25 | we might have felt less wronged . |
| 26 | So here are a few of mine , mixed in with answers to those questions you might have felt too silly to ask . |
| 27 | Amongst the dust and waste , characters who might have stepped straight out of the pages of Dickens or Mrs Gaskell bloomed . |
| 28 | Those that were able to acclimatize might have survived long enough for hereditary processes to be invoked and adaptation to occur . |
| 29 | But B of course if you did badly in those elections in May the government might have done badly in May , then morale would have been rock bottom of having to go into an election , he would have had to go for an election six weeks later or they 'd run out of time , yeah . |
| 30 | Harries , already unsuccessful with two very kickable penalties , and replaced by Jones , who had landed an angled one from 28 yards , might have done rather more with the opportunity , but Newport scored straight afterwards . |