Example sentences of "[pers pn] might have be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only chance I might have is when he comes in with the tray . |
| 2 | Would n't speak to me for six months , but then his natural goodness of heart , as well perhaps as his gradual realization that I might have been right , that perhaps I had saved him from a fate worse than death , made it impossible for him to keep it up . |
| 3 | She even had the audacity to suggest that I might have been ‘ carrying on ’ with Sir Vivien . |
| 4 | The reaction to that speech - and my reaction to that , the attempt to explain and apologise — put a firm stop to any hope I might have had that I might have been a candidate for leadership of the party . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I might have been on the train that hit him ! |
| 6 | If she or I had taken more trouble I might have been convinced that all religious people were cruel hypocrites . |
| 7 | You did not tell me what you had been doing , or where you had been , and you were not interested in whatever I might have been doing . |
| 8 | Later I learned that the wedding had nearly been postponed , as the two families thought I might have been a terrorist uttering a veiled warning against the nuptials . |
| 9 | I might have been too if I was n't so new to the game , I suppose . |
| 10 | I might have been able to afford to pay them on the spot because of the win , but I still had to get home on the train that night . |
| 11 | He sounded as enthusiastic as I might have been if talking about paving stones in Manchester . |
| 12 | ‘ If I 'd taken more trouble with economics I might have been more effective as Prime Minister . |
| 13 | But on the whole the bundles of blanket and piled clothing in the beds did not seem alive at all and I might have been alone in the block . |
| 14 | I might have been out or anything . ’ |
| 15 | In normal times , I might have been on the next flight out and by morning Miss Schlegel — a schoolgirl , yes , but what a schoolgirl , probably tanned , certainly firm and bouncy , and unquestionably an amateur theologian of weird and savage genius — would have found herself thickly slathered in Noxzema Regular Protective Shave Formula and roped to a groyne . |
| 16 | ‘ I might have been . |
| 17 | Had the Eradicator been a Taiwanese import , I might have been sceptical . |
| 18 | ‘ I would probably still be running anyway , but the Veteran scene has kept me motivated when I might have been just drifting around with my running . |
| 19 | ‘ If only he had confided in me earlier I might have been able to help . |
| 20 | If human communication were a simple matter of reciprocally exchanged words , if words had no resonances beyond themselves , I might have been proud to be cast in such a role , and either self-confident enough in my ability to fulfil it , or else realistic enough to modify my directives and declare myself in favour of some more modest role . |
| 21 | He said slowly and dangerously , ‘ I daresay I might have been four bob down at the end of an evening . |
| 22 | Luckily my mother was out of the room at the time , or Dawn and I might have been sent to our room for giving her precious cat a heart attack . |
| 23 | If I had been counting , or had been more familiar with the aircraft or the sequence , I might have been ready for him . |
| 24 | As the days passed I might have been telling him the truth , for I lost weight far more successfully than on any diet I have ever attempted . |
| 25 | And this was cracked fracture from osteoporosis now , if I had been getting H R T at that time I might have been less disfigured . |
| 26 | Now with this one the one we 've just done you do n't really know how far to go I mean I might have been going to ask erm how long has he been travelling if he 's been riding for a thousand hours . |
| 27 | If I 'd come when you first asked me , I might have been in Saracen for an entire month : I 'd probably have no job to come back to . ’ |
| 28 | I might have been very different . |
| 29 | I might have been as good as you , and perhaps wiser . |
| 30 | I knew now that I might have been foolish to have expected so much from Waite , but he had been the only person who 'd been willing to treat both kidnappers and hostages as human beings and to attempt some kind of understanding about how the situation could be resolved . |