Example sentences of "might have [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was afraid I might have struck one of the days you are n't here . ’ |
| 2 | I might have missed that , altogether . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | cut is the branch that might have grown full strait And burned is Apollo 's laurel bough ! |
| 5 | He saw at once how such an opportunity might have tempted one of the guards . |
| 6 | The reference to ‘ ancient and approved custom ’ might have tempted ingenious demur by the bishops , but Edward left them in no doubt where their best interest lay : ‘ know for certain that if you so act , we shall forcefully seize your baronies . ’ |
| 7 | Seebohm reorganisation might have created one door for people to turn to but often that door was closed . |
| 8 | Erm , even if you inherit some spreadsheets from this person that 's left , that 's useful knowledge because you do n't have to spend time searching for whoever might have created this spreadsheet . |
| 9 | Saroj Lal , director of Lothian Racial Equality Council , said , however , that Mr McNeill 's comments might have caused greater harm than could be offset by an apology . |
| 10 | Had anything happened around two years before that might have caused all this ? |
| 11 | What might have caused that ? |
| 12 | Give me something that might have caused that situation to lose confidence . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | You know , hardly get a go-round in the in the Dictionary of Quotations but at least you got the person there which is right , but in actual fact , how I might have treated that and I might what might have grabbed me a little bit more would have been the story which I would be looking for , I 'd be looking for my journalist to turn that into and therefore you might as well try and do it for us , because journalists like , like count on your labour , as I |
| 15 | The next part of the story is pure circumstance but the effect might have saved poor Mr Cubbage 's life . |
| 16 | There were still those in the skilled , supervisory , and managerial groups , who might have sought alternative employment and stood a better chance than the majority of finding it , who chose instead to take early retirement . |
| 17 | Li Po is leaving the world of men for a far more perfect world but there is in his poem nonetheless the idea that he might have wanted both of these worlds , but he has lost one of them ; thus he is chastened . |
| 18 | If they had lost they might have wanted 3 a bit more . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 ? ’ |
| 20 | A weaker man might have become debauched ( as many kings of that time certainly did ) yet Charles clearly never allowed his vital energies to weaken his will . |
| 21 | François Daulte 's catalogue of the oil paintings of Frédéric Bazille , the most recent volume in the distinguished series of monographs of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French masters published by the Bibliothèque des Arts , deals with the promising talent of a young artist who might have become one of the great figure painters of his generation , had he not died in the Franco-Prussian war in 1870 , at the age of twenty-nine . |
| 22 | In 1963 he fell only 31 votes short of being elected Labour leader ; he might have become prime minister . |
| 23 | But because it already occupied the existing space for electoral politics , the layer of educated and professional younger community leaders who might have become involved in politics was atomised . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The moor seemed more his own when it was unpeopled , so that his childhood fantasy might have become real and he be the lord of this wild country . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | There was a trend towards more intestinal pain in the women with hysterectomy and this might have become significant with larger numbers of subjects . |
| 28 | Then afraid he might have sounded gallant George added : ‘ Somebody 's got to make sure your military instinct for loot does n't take over . ’ |
| 29 | It might have sounded embarrassing if I had said it , ’ I smiled . |
| 30 | It might have sounded relevant if the Community had become a unitary European state , but it has not . |