Example sentences of "i might have [vb pp] [art] " in BNC.

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1 I might have felt a little downcast at that point , only the evening had made me feel more encouraged about my prospects with her than I 'd felt for some time .
2 Although I might have layered a lot of notes on one part it 's still basically , say , a D minor chord or whatever .
3 I might have kicked a few people in my time , and some would say I got away with it for twenty years .
4 I might have made a mistake to turn down offers when they were there .
5 Ken , would you say though that erm one or two recent announcements connected with these judgments , I think including the er the judge in a recent M C C case which actually went I think against the administrators , b on shares but actually the judge said if the argument had been made that er these assets were held er on a trustee basis , then I might have made a different decision .
6 But Lawson then covers his back : ‘ For a time I was concerned that I might have made the wrong choice as Chief Secretary — a view I suspect was shared by John Major himself . ’
7 I might have made an angry reply about her own flaunting of herself at the male Ardakkean , but there was nothing to be gained by it .
8 Given a set of circumstances — and of course more height — I might have completed a turn onto an adjacent runway , but from low down and with a suitable field ahead I should have treated the reduction as an engine failure , and made an early decision to land .
9 He eyes me , thinking that , although I might have done a few things in the Arctic , I am still a tiny lad without any fat ; he decides that it will be just a few minutes .
10 If I 'd done English , geography and history , I might have done a lot better , but they just did n't seem to bother about you if you were doing science — perhaps it was an old-fashioned school .
11 You and I might have done the same if we had been there , though we would have had none of the technical skill and detailed knowledge of Fleming .
12 I might have done the same myself , in her place .
13 He turned west , down to the hotel at Loweswater where , as he was to report to Newton , ‘ I might have landed a fine salmon trout . ’
14 ‘ By half term I might have finished the last one .
15 I might have had a different man , a bigger apartment , a bigger car , travel that way instead of this .
16 I might have had a splendid pad ,
17 Looking back , there have been occasions when I might have had a bit more foresight , particularly when this chap rang me from Newcastle one day raving about this brilliant young footballer he wanted me to look after .
18 I might have had a word with him if I 'd caught him .
19 If whatever happened to Summerchild had n't happened , I think , once again , then … then Timmy and I might have had a rather better quality of life .
20 I might have had a hat-trick and I wanted that .
21 I might have had a chance if the fates had n't conspired against me , but my left leg 's still giving me some stick .
22 Yet it was as though that night , in the moonlight , in the silence , as though even the work , the months of steady labour , had only been an illusion , only the dream of work , the dream of progress , and I had not even begun and never would begin , though at different moments in my life I might have had the illusion that I had begun and even , perhaps , finished .
23 This accords with a remark Johnson made to Boswell as they drove towards Aberdeen : ‘ I might have taken the side of the savage equally , had anybody else taken the side of the shopkeeper . ’
24 I might have known the come on , put the third one down .
25 I think I might have caught a cold . ’
26 Thought I might have got a chance at Pat Weaver , but you 're too efficient for me , Mister Doyle . ’
27 Still mazed with whatever the drug was she had taken , I might have got the truth out of her .
28 I might have tried a few quick manoeuvres to lose those shadows .
29 Of course , had Helmut not left for Zurich but stayed at Park Terrace , and had the situation between the three of us then become something of a tussle , I might have lacked the courage finally to pack up and return to Paris with Jean-Claude .
30 I might have left the discotheque and I 'd have never met that man .
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