Example sentences of "they might have [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their habitations would be huts , which they would have to build themselves , in desert land away from the few cities ; their diet would be healthy and sustaining but it would be monotonous , and they would have to do without delicacies which many of them might have become used to in the Diaspora . |
| 2 | They might have become becalmed there as their heads ballooned with the drink but the Duke told his piper to rouse their feet with a steady march , ‘ Murdo Mackenzie of Torridon ’ , and they headed off downstream towards Grandtully past the standing stone , the quiet watcher , while damp black shadow massed in the river-channel as though the night came from there . |
| 3 | No it 's all of it even the h and the w I think they might have lost some figures off of it at some time . |
| 4 | I told you that I loved him , that 's God 's truth , I love him and I tell you they might have made such a place just for him . ’ |
| 5 | Crown lands had been so much reduced in size that the most efficient management could not have increased their yield to the point at which they might have made any significant impact on royal finances . |
| 6 | If they had lost they might have wanted 3 a bit more . |
| 7 | They might have gone higher but this is a matter of principle . |
| 8 | they only need washing , I mean I might be wrong , they might have , they might have gone funny , but I doubt it they 've not been up there that long really only about two |
| 9 | ‘ You mean to tell me , ’ Mrs Wilson interrupted , ‘ that you went round every secretarial agency in London asking about someone they might have employed fourteen years before , someone who most likely had changed her name , and you expected to succeed ? ’ |
| 10 | It is a constant concern that they might have achieved much more if services had been better and that they may regress if services do n't improve . |
| 11 | His letter to Mrs Thrale contained more detail , expressed with greater pungency , and it confirms the ‘ Dark Continent ’ feel of his experience : ‘ The Inhabitants , a very coarse tribe , ignorant of any language but earse [ sic ] , gathered so fast about us , that if we had not had Highlanders with us , they might have caused more alarm than pleasure . ’ |
| 12 | This in turn enables Janssen 's customers to start production or synthesis sooner than they might have thought possible . |
| 13 | Whereas in actual fact if they come in very nicely and ask very nicely , they might have got more than they actually got here when they came in shouting and yelling . |
| 14 | Dissenters were visibly active in support of Whig candidates at the polls , and their electoral impact was often significant , since they might have comprised one-fifth of the total electorate , whilst in some constituencies the proportion of voters who were Nonconformists was much higher . |
| 15 | They might have added that government 's encouragement of home ownership , already alluded to , had reinforced the need for credit . |
| 16 | They might have continued unabated until Henry II 's death , but two important factors altered the stakes for all the players in this complex game of dynastic skulduggery . |
| 17 | It is often the case that the definition of administrative regions within countries tends to reflect certain historical and institutional processes which , although they might have produced some degree of spatial cohesion , do not necessarily accord with what one might view as appropriate for economic scrutiny . |
| 18 | They might have had one and found out what it was going to cost and were decided against . |
| 19 | ‘ After what happened tonight they might have had enough . ’ |
| 20 | If they had said no help would be forthcoming and no stock of food had been set aside and no extraordinary public works would be undertaken , they might have provided all three by stealth and so avoided a great nuisance . |
| 21 | They might have enjoyed each other . |
| 22 | ‘ They might have looked easy chances , but I 've missed easier than that . |