Example sentences of "he might [vb infin] [vb pp] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had the candidate added that dismissal was actually effected by the Crown he might have risen to a second . |
| 2 | The blow would have killed him instantly — at least , he might have lived for a few minutes in a technical sense , but he would have been unconscious and effectively dead . |
| 3 | Silly and stupid , the sort of thing he might have done as a child , pathetic for a man of his age . |
| 4 | Yet the question remains as to what Baldwin thought he might have attempted in a long night of ‘ reasoning together ’ . |
| 5 | He might have shaved for a match , thought Perdita ; the girl in the petrol station must have a skin like garlic sausage . |
| 6 | She felt that the interview was over , and yet his stillness held her still , and the solemnity of his regard filled her with a curious sense of freedom and enlargement , as though she enjoyed the very fashion of intimacy with him that he might have shared with a man and his peer , even with the prince himself . |
| 7 | Rab said , ‘ He might have worked in a circus . ’ |
| 8 | Instead , he gave the number he might have dialled to a colleague and said he would be there unless at home . |