Example sentences of "might have thought " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why speculate what Mother Anne might have thought about modern glues — they had none and she spoke to the brothers and sisters in their instant present . |
| 2 | If Cullam had been in a fit state to observe behaviour he might have thought the chief inspector bored or preoccupied . |
| 3 | Five years ago people might have thought her greatest contribution had been to the British fashion industry . |
| 4 | You might have thought that the last bastion of resistance to computers would come from the classic craft environment of hand animation . |
| 5 | You might have thought almost no one would back the successor to an organisation that collapsed in disgrace only months ago after 40 years of misrule . |
| 6 | West Indians of a literary turn of mind might have thought of W.B. Yeats : ‘ Things fall apart ; the centre can not hold ; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world . ’ |
| 7 | Jane reflected that if she 'd been enormous , with masses of stomach and bust up front , Lajos might have thought twice about bashing her . |
| 8 | In visiting a Catholic school , O'Neill might have thought he was doing no more than acknowledging that Catholics formed a sizeable part of the population of Northern Ireland and that Catholic schools were largely supported from public funds which his government administered . |
| 9 | That hard-fought win might have been deemed enough for the season , but his French owner was keen to run her little battler ( bred in France ) in the top French jumping event — in which he had finished second three years earlier — and so three months after the Gold Cup , when he might have thought himself to have earned a summer holiday , Mandarin was despatched to Paris . |
| 10 | He gave a great sigh and if she had not known him better she might have thought , as he slumped forward , that he had expired on the spot . |
| 11 | Slightly towards one end , on the surface that was now uppermost on the table , rested a long , unevenly shaped darkish slab of what I might have thought was rough-faced granite . |
| 12 | Voters living in leafier suburbs might have thought differently . |
| 13 | One might have thought he had been beaten to the composition of the most perfectly unfilmable book by William Burroughs 's The Naked Lunch , which depicts a peculiarly literary and private nightmare . |
| 14 | This in turn enables Janssen 's customers to start production or synthesis sooner than they might have thought possible . |
| 15 | After take-off , a miracle I might have thought in other circumstances , the stewardess handed me a sickly sweet fruit drink and I tried to peer through the tight lattice of scratch marks on the window at the Andes , at the snow , at the jungle . |
| 16 | If you had not known who O was you might have thought that Madame was planning a seduction , or wondering whether he was a suitable candidate for a job — her new barman or doorman . |
| 17 | Although ylang-ylang is generally regarded as an aphrodisiac oil in aromatherapy , not a good choice in the circumstances one might have thought , she took an instant dislike to the less interesting herbal essences . |
| 18 | He might have thought I 'd had one previous . |
| 19 | In April 1816 , musing after John Brownrigg 's death , he says he might have thought differently of him had he been born in Ambleside , ‘ the moral code of the people here not being like that of many other places . ’ |
| 20 | The fates were obviously being kind — and not before time they might have thought — to Channel 4 , who had Dr Edward Teller scheduled for Opinions ( 7 February ) . |
| 21 | One might have thought the work more appropriately done on the Isle of Sandwich . |
| 22 | I mean , if I 'd got pregnant he might have thought it was his , that he 'd got better somehow . |
| 23 | If she heard on the News that a man had been murdered here , she might have thought it was me . |
| 24 | Do you feel ambitious enough to attain goals that previously you might have thought were out of your personal reach ? |
| 25 | It never occurred to me that anyone might have thought they were prejudiced . ’ |
| 26 | The three men might have thought those things but not have said them aloud . |
| 27 | Not as bad you might have thought , but bad enough . |
| 28 | Complete , that is , except for one irritating — and one might have thought , locally embarrassing — gap , in Panama . |
| 29 | This remark did not , as his passengers might have thought , refer either to the condition of the road or to his not having thought on about Easter , but to the problem of where the other two were going to eat lunch . |
| 30 | The Captain filled in the space where Maxwell might have thought he had to apologize , and then asked him quickly : ‘ What did you do in the north of Italy in January ? |