Example sentences of "as [pers pn] might have " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could be argued that on occasions I 've taken on things which probably I have n't done as well out of financially as I might have done if I 'd done something else . |
| 2 | The things which came out in therapy did not make up a complete , finished jigsaw , as I might have imagined . |
| 3 | He sounded as enthusiastic as I might have been if talking about paving stones in Manchester . |
| 4 | ‘ But one thing I do n't want to happen as time goes by is to sit down and say that I did n't do as well as I might have done in another tournament because I did n't put in enough effort . |
| 5 | Although I left him in no doubts about my opinion of his behaviour over the past few weeks , I was n't quite as brutal with him as I might have been . |
| 6 | As I might have mentioned , Sam was too liberal with the wine . ’ |
| 7 | I saw myself , Frank L. Cauldhame , and I saw myself as I might have been : a tall slim man , strong and determined and making his way in the world , assured and purposeful . |
| 8 | ‘ Not as much as I might have . ’ |
| 9 | As you might have guessed I 'm a very biased Aston Villa supporter ( muffled titters ) , but even I have to admit this is a really mega prize . |
| 10 | We 're rather different , Oliver and me , as you might have noticed . |
| 11 | The results are , as you might have guessed , violently unpredictable . |
| 12 | Many physicists ( pronounced ‘ fizzy-sists ’ ) have large pictures of him on the walls of their laboratories — just as you might have pictures of your favourite pop stars on the walls of your bedroom at home . |
| 13 | Many of the amino acids are coded by more than one triplet ( as you might have guessed from the fact that there are 64 triplets and only 20 amino acids ) . |
| 14 | Using the machine is , as you might have guessed , a pleasure , and not only because of its speed . |
| 15 | As you might have noticed , you 've slightly cramped my earning power . |
| 16 | Im annoyed as you might have guessed . |
| 17 | Randolph had a very strange problem as you might have guessed before , he had a white nose ! |
| 18 | ’ Sheila said this in much the tone of incredulity as she might have said , ‘ If I ever die . ’ |
| 19 | Much as she might have wanted to help , Diana was in no position to give Charles the attention he needed . |
| 20 | She was pale , but not as shocked as she might have been . |
| 21 | Flighty as she might have been until then , Liza Tremayne was still a virgin . |
| 22 | Scarlet did n't argue as she might have done if she had n't had a large vodka . |
| 23 | She enjoyed nearly everything , even widow 's weeds perhaps most of all widow 's weeds , as her married life had not been as exciting as she might have wished , and besides , they were so graceful and pretty . |
| 24 | She put an arm across her eyes and opened them beneath it , seeing him in such a way that he could never be certain whether she had looked or not , naked and hairy and black as she might have imagined , thick-set and arrogant and very ready — that much at least was certain — to take her without any further preamble . |
| 25 | And that was not as often as she might have wished . |
| 26 | As she might have anticipated , Luke stepped away from the gentleness of the gesture immediately , and her face grew as closed as his had suddenly become . |
| 27 | As she might have expected , it was almost empty , except for an air hostess sitting on the toilet , smoking . |
| 28 | His tone was sceptical , as she might have expected . |
| 29 | — as she might have said herself at the time ) . |
| 30 | She touched the stone of the walls as she might have touched a cheek , deliberately and lingeringly . |