Example sentences of "might have [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now one of the things you might 've seen from the corporate briefings is you 've got the budget figure and a forecast figure . |
| 2 | No , I thought it might 've said at the back and Dinosaur |
| 3 | ‘ He might 've gone to the gym — |
| 4 | And so for each one of them you might 've started by , having got all this , what you could do then is write for each individual element , a tank base , a tank wall a bedroom or a bathroom , you can produce , I would suggest , a little bar chart which might look like that , for one unit . |
| 5 | Had Theodora not been her father 's daughter , and therefore beautifully bred , she might have snorted at such palpable idiocy |
| 6 | There was an awkward silence which Maidstone might have broken with some amiable remark to save Sandison 's face . |
| 7 | The useless girl that I was might have grown without diversion , etiolated and bland like a stalk of grass under a stone , from those early days , represented still by the dolls and bears that lay on the cupboard shelves . |
| 8 | Some other teams might have quit at half-time — not us . ’ |
| 9 | For ‘ prodigies ’ ( ‘ Mr Binyon 's young prodigies ’ ) surely we ought to read ‘ protégés ’ ; and then it becomes possible to wonder whether the jocularity about bulldogs does n't mark a wistful or resentful sense that Binyon and Sturge Moore ( ‘ old Neptune ’ ) might have done more with their respective protégés than merely set them to sniff and snarl at each other 's heels ; to question whether the two senior writers could not have established themselves — at least for some purposes — as masters of ateliers in which the two young hopefuls might have enrolled as apprentices . |
| 10 | ‘ I remember that my invitation extended to 14 days , but it was so arranged that any visitor who might have to leave for the day could do so and could return again . |
| 11 | Had the only purpose of my visit been to discover what Kenya is really like I might have saved on the air fare and just bought the book . |
| 12 | The conformism might have arisen for quite different reasons and among its other consequences happened incidentally to amplify the beneficial effects of the inhibitions . |
| 13 | In fact it would be even more true to say that they conversed largely by the sign method , overcoming any difficulties which might have arisen over differences m mother tongues . |
| 14 | Erm , and the introduction of these forms of individuals erm might have arisen as the one passage that showed us might suggest , the passage from five seven on page three of her handout number eleven there , the need for forms of individuals might have arisen from the following . |
| 15 | Erm , and the introduction of these forms of individuals erm might have arisen as the one passage that showed us might suggest , the passage from five seven on page three of her handout number eleven there , the need for forms of individuals might have arisen from the following . |
| 16 | But they must be for ever content to owe to the English that elegance and culture , which , if they had been vigilant and active , perhaps the English might have owed to them . ’ |
| 17 | He might have wanted to but he would n't have had the guts . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ No , he was already married , you see , a marriage he could never escape from , no matter how much he might have wanted to . |
| 19 | ‘ You might have wanted to be alone . ’ |
| 20 | I shook my head and bent back to my work , but every now and again , as I was writing or just thinking , a niggling little side-track thought would distract me , and I 'd find myself remembering Janice 's words , and wondering what exactly Uncle Rory might have hidden within his later work ( if he really had hidden anything ) . |
| 21 | A leader with more authority might have brushed off the so-called ‘ desk-drawer affair ’ . |
| 22 | Dozens of literate psychometricians might have commented on the shallowness of the books the Times usually chooses to review . |
| 23 | And Thiercelin wondered whether of all the men in the Grand Army , he alone realized that the charmless , unpopular Davout was a better soldier , and a better man , than the emperor , and might have served as an example to princes , had he only possessed a little more humanity . |
| 24 | It might have served as a link between Britain and the Six , but it was not until after its first application to join the EEC had been rejected in 1963 that Britain began seriously to consider this as a possibility . |
| 25 | Buildings at Great Chesterford , Margidunum and Camerton might have served as mansiones , although it should be stressed that separate bathhouses are absent , while it is difficult to identify the stables . |
| 26 | It might have ordered the Serbs to remove their heavy artillery , by threatening to use counter-force ; it might have arranged for the Muslims to move to a safe haven elsewhere in the country . |
| 27 | The staff regarded the administration as ‘ firm but fair ’ , and most seemed to appreciate what a younger and better educated workforce might have regarded as a somewhat paternalistic attitude . |
| 28 | Brian Mahon might have skimped on comfort for the rest of the house , but his daughter 's bedroom had the best of everything . |
| 29 | Mr. Ashworth and Mr. McGregor none the less submit either that , so far as the English common law is concerned , Walker 's case is to be preferred to any inconsistent later decision in any other jurisdiction , or that , as an action by a child for damages for pre-natal injuries had not been recognised as valid in the English courts before 1976 — the enactment of the Act of 1976 — such an action could not now be allowed to develop and the English common law should be taken as being what the latest United Kingdom cases available might have indicated before 1976 . |
| 30 | ‘ You might have heard of this — potheen ! ’ he said with a smile on his return . |