Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] might have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ With help from another I might have survived . |
| 2 | I was afraid I might have struck one of the days you are n't here . ’ |
| 3 | He tried very hard not to cough like he 'd seen people cough in westerns when they tried whisky for the first time , and got away with just clearing his throat rather loudly ( he looked round at the curtains , afraid somebody might have heard ) . |
| 4 | Knowledge of postcoital insertion of an intrauterine contraceptive device was shown by four ( 2% ) of the 171 and two ( 1% ) of the 210 respectively — that is , only six ( 2% ) of the 381 who might have benefited . |
| 5 | ‘ Imagine ’ , Du Camp reports him as saying , ‘ the capital one might have made out of certain incidents . |
| 6 | In this they might have taken heed of the Reich 's experience , but instead they went ahead and repeated that experience in miniature . |
| 7 | To another it might have seemed utter confusion , but Chen had been born here . |
| 8 | Then , afraid he might have heard , she added waspishly , ‘ You mean you suspected I might run away . |
| 9 | Then afraid he might have sounded gallant George added : ‘ Somebody 's got to make sure your military instinct for loot does n't take over . ’ |
| 10 | Only one thing was clear ; his anxiety about how much I might have heard from Mitford and Leverrier was now explained . |
| 11 | ‘ Because if you try to do anything so misguided I might have to give a Press interview to explain just why I got under your skin so badly ! ’ |
| 12 | Mrs Julian did n't mention how much you might have done and it 's better safe than sorry … ’ |
| 13 | Taking the radical students ' ideals at face-value one might have expected them to see this incident as yet another example of oppression by a fascist regime and protest against it — after all , they protested enough when it used such methods against its own people . |
| 14 | It 'll be nicer we might have gone out , it 's I think it 'll |
| 15 | The women who sat beside a single basket of herbs , or wild mushrooms they had gathered that morning in the dew , high in the hills , were tanned so dark they might have washed in walnut juice . |
| 16 | Veronica had been to the flat : was n't it possible she might have left something behind which Loretta could claim to have found ? |
| 17 | The police suspected that it was an inside job and promptly arrested the dismissed worker , for no reason other than that she might have borne a grudge against her erstwhile employer . |
| 18 | To meet this point I think one must say that Bentham 's view was , in effect , that a right action must not only do more good than harm , but must also be such that neither the particular good it does , nor any other comparable good which might have substituted for it , could have been achieved at less cost in terms of harm done . |
| 19 | In 1952 you might have bought Buckingham Palace for £80,000 . |
| 20 | If Croats and Serbs are allowed to slaughter Muslims and steal their land unchallenged , the injustice will , or at least should , weigh upon the conscience of all who might have stopped them . |
| 21 | Payment for the two men who died because of you and the many who might have died . ’ |
| 22 | There can be little doubt that this fact proved influential in reducing the strength of the cavalry ( a strength which , as we have seen , was contracting because of the new requirements of war ) and of turning many who might have fought on horseback into men-at-arms who rode into battle , dismounted , and then fought on foot . |
| 23 | However , once started on this track it may seem difficult to keep clear of rigorism , for it is unclear how the good one might have done but did not can be discounted from the things prevented by what one did instead . |
| 24 | The only Italian she might have got an introduction to — and though elderly he might have had a son — had dropped down dead in the Vatican Square . |
| 25 | I had the feeling that if I had n't been present he might have risked uttering a few words to Millie . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm not quite sure what might have happened then , but for some reason he gave up . |
| 27 | If you go round and round any more I might have to prescribe some medicine for you . ’ |
| 28 | But there will be no compensation for those who might have wanted to deal during the suspension period . |
| 29 | Machicolations , usually regarded as a sign of nobility , had their practical value in that they permitted vertical defence against those who might have reached the dead ground near a wall , and might be setting about digging or mining under it . |
| 30 | Mature enough , in any case , to be recreating works from past decades for those who might have missed them . |