Example sentences of "might [vb infin] [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 31 | And who , you might have asked a couple of days ago , is Whacker Eunice ? |
| 32 | And after he 'd gone , and Isobel had returned to the newsroom to file all the dead stories and check the agency printers for the next hour 's updates ready to hand over to Jim , the late-shift newsreader , it briefly crossed her mind that maybe , just maybe , a rising star of journalism with her eye on the national media might have asked a couple of more searching questions . |
| 33 | You should have nipped into the Gulf of Corinth — you might have stood a chance there . ’ |
| 34 | He eyes me , thinking that , although I might have done a few things in the Arctic , I am still a tiny lad without any fat ; he decides that it will be just a few minutes . |
| 35 | She handed this creature to Roland , who took it as he might have done a kitten , cradling it in the crook of his elbow , and adding to it , in turn , the nightcapped one , in tiny white pleats and broderie anglaise , and the dark-headed one , severe in dark peacock . |
| 36 | As one officer said to Levi : ‘ If we nicked everybody we thought might have done a long-firm , we 'd never finish our paperwork , the cases might never come to court , and if they did , they 'd never have the room to try them . ’ |
| 37 | If I 'd done English , geography and history , I might have done a lot better , but they just did n't seem to bother about you if you were doing science — perhaps it was an old-fashioned school . |
| 38 | he might have done a roast dinner and that they |
| 39 | ‘ Some idiot might have seen a well-dressed elderly gent near the railway line and then you could have been questioned . ’ |
| 40 | Furthermore , although there was no shortage of surgical complications which might have formed a focus for psychological discontent , the researchers noted that ‘ even those who had experienced complications tended to underrate their seriousness and to express satisfaction . ’ |
| 41 | The restrictions of office life might have formed a permanent barrier to any expression of their feelings for each other , but their relationship had grown appreciably closer when they had both stayed for part of one summer at the home of a friend , Margaret Behrens , in Mentone — although even here Valerie Fletcher still called him " Mr Eliot " . |
| 42 | The miners might have lost a political battle , but they had not lost a war . |
| 43 | He was about to return the compliment by suggesting that she might have lost a little weight when she leaned across and helped herself to another jam tart . |
| 44 | erm you might have lost a lot . |
| 45 | Had Forbes lived longer , he might have founded at Edinburgh a school of naturalists as he hoped , and which was impossible at that date in London ; and he might have written a major work . |
| 46 | Although I might have layered a lot of notes on one part it 's still basically , say , a D minor chord or whatever . |
| 47 | Sheridan might have made a difference given the chance — but then we 'll never know quite what sent the skilful midfielder packing to Sheffield Wednesday after hardly a sniff of the City Ground . |
| 48 | He might have made a doctor as well as a poacher … . |
| 49 | He might have made a pass given time . |
| 50 | Televising might have made a big impact on proceedings in one other area . |
| 51 | Yet it even made a suggestion to CSM that might have made a dent in its sales graph . |
| 52 | But Jan Peerce makes a very coarse and unromantic Alfredo , and Licia Albanese , who might have made a good shot at the role of Violetta under more sympathetic direction , sounds particularly nervous and unsettled . |
| 53 | The children might have made a collection of shiny things or things made of metal , and be invited to think of things that they use at home which are shiny or made of metal . |
| 54 | But he represents a different style of monarchy , a different style of man from perhaps Prince Andrew , who might have made a much more typical Windsor king . |
| 55 | Villa boss Ron Atkinson said : ‘ In the first half , we might have made a better game of it if we had turned up . |
| 56 | She was a very tall and very fair and dazzlingly beautiful creature whose skin was goose-pimpled under the impact of McIllvanney 's air conditioning which was set to a level that might have made a penguin shiver . |
| 57 | He had a passionate love of music and in another world at another time might have made a fine musician , but there , held in that place at that moment , there were other plans , other duties , other paths . |
| 58 | Gabbi Callas , 27 , fiancee of victim Mark Fitz , said : ‘ If all this had come out before the court case , it might have made a difference . ’ |
| 59 | As a boy Waugh had longed to go to Eton , which might have made a radical of him and where he might have met Orwell , and did not ; his first aristocratic wife left him after a year , and for an Etonian ; and his sojourns in a great Elizabethan house in Worcestershire as a young man , the guest of a friend , allowed him to glimpse a world of moats , battlements and rolling parkland from which in spirit he never awoke . |
| 60 | A European director might have made a film explicitly depicting and condemning the chain-gang system and he almost certainly would have suggested that the system was a metaphor for life itself , but Hollywood had made a more accessible and universally popular film by showing an innocent man hounded by a combination of events and social forces of which the chain-gang was the most obviously dramatic . |