Example sentences of "she might have [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thing to do , Caroline told herself , was lose herself in the beauty and lore of Rome , and she might have done that — if the guide had only let her . |
| 2 | One of the crucial issues in such studies is whether the time-lag allowed is the right one and had Walters allowed twenty instead of ten years , she might have reached different conclusions . |
| 3 | Too many people had resented her abrupt intrusion onto the London society circuit , and while she might have gained some measure of respectability , she knew the resentment remained . |
| 4 | Exactly thirty minutes later , Shannon packed the last two brushes into an already crammed hold-all and glanced quickly round the small room , checking for anything she might have missed first time round . |
| 5 | ‘ Poor thing , ’ she might have said another time , but now any sympathy she had for the machine was swamped by her fears for her children . |
| 6 | She might have had other irons in the fire as well . |
| 7 | Had Leapor survived she might have burned some of her unpublished verses as she did her juvenilia . |
| 8 | Alternatively , she might have published that material at a more propitious time . |
| 9 | She might have sat all afternoon , nibbling and stuporous , exhausted but not sleepy ; but the glazier finally came down from the upper floor , cheerfully announcing that all was now right and tight and he would be on his way . |
| 10 | ‘ She might have married any of the Chieftains or the Lords who came to Tara , or the foreign Princes , for all knew that Ireland went with her . |
| 11 | A few years ago she might have found this impossible , the old London County Council preferring to keep its heads of schools at a distance without a telephone . |