Example sentences of "we might have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But soon he is forced by famine to go down to Egypt , and when he is about to cross the border he resorts to a ploy which knocks him straight off any pedestal we might have erected for him . |
| 2 | If we could have got him to a warm climate we might have kept him alive for a year or two more than we did . |
| 3 | The expanse of beach was so denuded of any trace of the present century we might have stepped out on to a distant planet . |
| 4 | We might have caused it to happen to them . |
| 5 | Earlier we might have said his conduct and manner of speech were appropriate for one who wished to renounce the status he had stolen , and show his recognition of Esau 's authority as the elder son . |
| 6 | The use of robots in manufacturing industry is an often-quoted example of job destruction ( or , as we might have said in a more optimistic era , job saving ) . |
| 7 | It is not just that beetles and mice are pests ( we might have said the same of ladybirds and the pursuit of wildfowl ) , but rather that the relative similarity of the larger mammals to ourselves materially affects our thinking and is reflected in our instinctive responses . |
| 8 | For some reason he was terrified about what we might have said of him behind his back . |
| 9 | We might have said no but that 's what it was because of pressure put on this side |
| 10 | We might have gone on for years like that — me combing the streets for you while pretending to be there on other business ! |
| 11 | It 'll be nicer we might have gone out , it 's I think it 'll |
| 12 | We think we might have missed something . |
| 13 | We passed Cap Bon ( in the distance ) and Pantelleria , the latter at sea level — which was just as well as it was raining at the time , otherwise we might have missed it and also because we were told afterwards that there was an airfield there with Bf110s . |
| 14 | We might have missed Stanley . |
| 15 | The indignation within the Motability community at this venomous attack was more gratifying than any form of recognition that we might have obtained . |
| 16 | We might have guessed that Olson would do it , if any one could . … |
| 17 | It was typical of Benjamin James , as it happens , to go in for such a touch of harmless sycophancy to please his friend the vicar ; he had very soon become , as we might have guessed , a respectable pillar of the Curry Rivel establishment . |
| 18 | Actually the Voice is Gandalf 's , as we might have guessed from its asperity , and as is anyway confirmed at II , 99 : it may seem fair enough to let a wizard oppose a necromancer . |
| 19 | As we might have guessed , the importance of Laurence 's wife 's money overrode any other consideration . |
| 20 | ‘ Just that I was rather hoping we might have achieved that long before then . ’ |
| 21 | Or if he had said that , irrespective of making the cake larger , the poor would get larger slices , again we might have believed and respected him . |
| 22 | And I suppose we might have lost her in the long run , but not just yet . ’ |
| 23 | But for the quick thinking of the two officers — the first with his hunch about north Wales , the second with her code breaking — we might have lost the whole team . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Last season in a similar sort of game , we might have lost our shape and the game . |
| 25 | ‘ We 're there or thereabouts now and even though we might have lost by the odd goal , we 're still bubbling . |
| 26 | ‘ Marc , I ca n't believe how easily we might have lost each other — ’ |
| 27 | Coleraine manager Billy Sinclair said : ‘ We might have lost by six goals but got our act together . |
| 28 | We might have done better with one or two chances , but I am pleased with the overall performance . ’ |
| 29 | I think we might have done that . |
| 30 | I think we might have done that . |