Example sentences of "[conj] might [vb infin] [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Partition had cut off the Pomeranian Poles from the areas of Poland that might have sustained a more confident sense of Polish national identity . |
| 2 | Watching him ride thus , strongly recovering from wounds that might have killed a lesser man , and whistling softly and contentedly into the sea wind , it was impossible to think evil of him . |
| 3 | Yet it even made a suggestion to CSM that might have made a dent in its sales graph . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ Because you have a face that might have launched a thousand ships . |
| 6 | Every surface that might have had a fingerprint was wiped , every trace they could think of expunged . |
| 7 | The visitors bounced back with Mitchell heading wide at the far post and Cormac O'Donnell bursting into the box where Mark Donnelly 's tackle ended the danger in circumstances that might have brought a spot kick . |
| 8 | But yes , I grant you that might have seemed a bit odd to the members if it had n't been explained properly . ’ |
| 9 | She had perhaps a few spoonfuls of oil ; she was told to pour those minute contents of her jar into jars that might have held a hundred times as much as she had . |
| 10 | He was offered a Dupont chemical engineering scholarship and might have become a captain of industry somewhere in middle America , balding , bloated and with a houseful of his own children , anonymously having pursued a largely uneventful career in that worthy but slightly boring structure of management in a giant US conglomerate . |
| 11 | Koeman gave Holland 45 minutes of limited credibility and might have inspired a Dutch goal in the second minute when his early through-pass beat Brazil 's offside trap and sent Kieft clear on the right . |
| 12 | Another ‘ Carry On ’ film — Carry on Regardless , which seemed to offer nothing new and might have died a death at the box office had it not had those magic first two words in the title which by now assured a box office hit . |
| 13 | Unfortunately , virtue alone is not enough ; possibly Carter would have been more successful and might have won a second term if he had been less intense , more flexible , less immersed in the detail of government and a little more willing to dissemble occasionally . |
| 14 | A sense of her own importance , which survived despite the sadnesses of her adult life and prompted her to tell her own story at such length , is summed up in her quotation of a relative 's comment on her autobiography , ‘ it was not writ as if a weak woman might have done it , but might have become a divine . ’ |
| 15 | The controversial striker took time to settle , but might have had a hat-trick , missing the target when clean through in either half . |