Example sentences of "[pers pn] might [vb infin] [vb pp] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | If only I 'd gone along with the doctor 's proposals , it would have been over by now — completely and painlessly over , and any feelings of guilt I might have had as a result I would surely have dealt with ages ago . |
| 2 | She made between 70 and 90 blouses a week which , despite the low rate of pay , compares well with what she might have got as a part-time worker in a sweat shop , the most likely alternative . |
| 3 | Using a democratic structure of rotating the roles of therapist and patient , it encourages people to express previous hurts in ways they might have done as children if that had been allowed . |
| 4 | But they might have remained as also-rans if the rhynchosaurs had not already been driven into extinction |
| 5 | It might have served as a link between Britain and the Six , but it was not until after its first application to join the EEC had been rejected in 1963 that Britain began seriously to consider this as a possibility . |
| 6 | In 1935 it might have seemed as if Hollywood was moving into a period of labour and political films but such was not the case . |
| 7 | It might have looked as if I wanted the bloody money ! ’ |
| 8 | Trouble is it might have started as a bit of a joke but it 's no joke now — not for me anyway . |
| 9 | He works this kind of stiff-upper-lip colonialist nostalgia very well , of course — if only the material he chose had been less plodding and lightweight , he might have emerged as more than a typecast cypher . |
| 10 | Silly and stupid , the sort of thing he might have done as a child , pathetic for a man of his age . |