Example sentences of "you might [vb infin] [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | You should have nipped into the Gulf of Corinth — you might have stood a chance there . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Ca n't you admit you might have made a mistake ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Do n't tell me you 've suddenly discovered that you might have made a mistake about me ? |
| 4 | And who , you might have asked a couple of days ago , is Whacker Eunice ? |
| 5 | erm you might have lost a lot . |
| 6 | But if you looked carefully at the left-hand side , where there was a glass-enclosed porch , you might have noticed a few little birds flying around , the odd flash and flitter of coloured wings . |
| 7 | ‘ Well ’ , — I was intentionally vague — ‘ by then you might have won a football pool . ’ |
| 8 | So you might have entered a wonderful poem to that competition and Philip Larkin never got a chance to look at it . |
| 9 | You might have had a slightly harder time finding the money in 1965 than in 1964 , though . |
| 10 | And it it it 's called the fog index but the thing that 's interesting about it is that I 've got , I 've got some interesting examples of fog indexes erm and you 'll get people like Churchill who sometimes made speeches and their fog index is quite small you 're going to use this you know example and they might have a fog , fog index that 's fine and what Anne and I are talking about with say something like the Telegraph or the Times or whatever , might have a fog index that people but this is because Churchill was very clear , very concise and going back to the original point about , or some of the original points about this , and I was mak raising these issues earlier this evening one of the great sadnesses that I have is that , is that when I first went into journalism the tabloids as we call them were incredibly well written beautifully styled , well researched and okay they might have been punchier and shorter and everything else , compared to the turning up the er the , the Times or whatever , but they were well written and you might have had , if you can put the fog index test , test on it you might have had a fog index of say six or seven compared to eleven on the Telegraph story , but it was still full of clarity like to read . |
| 11 | you might have spent a of time |
| 12 | I thought you might have got a fright . |
| 13 | You might have expected a howl of derision to greet this cry , but it did not come . |
| 14 | Although you might have driven a long way to get there , do n't put yourself into a situation you ca n't handle . |