Example sentences of "she might [adv] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other incidents she might simply have placed her hand over the child 's mouth or nose , or interfered with its oxygen supply with ‘ dramatic consequence ’ . |
| 2 | The dazed expression had almost left her face and I wondered if she might not have had a slight stroke when Celia abandoned her , and was now recovering . |
| 3 | She might not have been as glamorous as the great vessels loaded with equally glamorous cargo , but she was just as important in her own way . |
| 4 | She might not have come , but I did n't want to say it . |
| 5 | He came and went so quickly that she might not have known it was him save for the flash of his yellow cravat under the gas-lamp . |
| 6 | She says at her age , she might not have long to enjoy it . |
| 7 | Once she had taken off her black suit and was lying in bed dressed only in her underclothes and dressing gown , she admitted to herself that she was so tired that she might not have lasted out the afternoon in court without fainting . |
| 8 | As Ngo Van Loc drove them northwards , her thoughts against her will returned constantly to the frenzy of that midnight jungle storm and the gnawing fear that she might not have emerged from her folly unscathed . |
| 9 | He thought she might not have a heart , or tried to explain away her indifference by imagining she were made of obsidian through and through . |
| 10 | When she was younger and thoroughly impatient with her mother she had sometimes entertained a fantasy that Constance would kidnap her and take her away to live with the gipsies : now she felt that she might not have liked it as much as she thought . |
| 11 | She might not have kissed him , but for the moment he knew he was willing to settle for that message : I love you — I think . |
| 12 | She might not have been able to put into words the high hopes she held for her daughter but her actions spoke volumes . |
| 13 | For that matter , she might not have been far out in thinking him impudent ; his manner was innocence itself , his deference if anything delicately overdone , as though he were ready to come down off his high horse the moment she came down off hers , and did n't anticipate that the descent need be long delayed . |
| 14 | For all the attention he paid her , she might not have been there . |
| 15 | This came out with more bravado than Sally-Anne really felt , and had she seen him more clearly before she intervened she might not have said anything at all . |
| 16 | Beneath the overwhelming memories of physical delight there were fears — a fear that she might not have measured up in some way . |
| 17 | She might not have been able to see his expression , but she could definitely see his smile — and it was n't a very nice one . |
| 18 | His hands did n't roam , did n't take liberties that she might not have wanted him to take ; only his head moved , his mouth , as he kissed her first one way , then another ; drew her lower lip , infinitely gently , between his ; sampled the top lip , her tongue ; moved languidly to approach from another direction . |
| 19 | She might not have succeeded in warning Guy , but she did n't think Brien fitzCount would stand by and allow the Queen 's equerry to be murdered while he was on official business . |
| 20 | She rang the Sunday Herald number , placating her conscience with the thought that she might not have time to ring Tracey that evening after all ; but when she got through to the news desk , she discovered that he had taken the shuttle to Glasgow the morning before . |
| 21 | On the assumption that he or she might not have carried the murder weapon away Wycliffe had ordered a search of the foreshore , and a police frogman was floundering about in the shallow off-shore waters like a porpoise on the point of stranding . |
| 22 | If O'Keeffe had been able to ignore the criticism of her art that Stieglitz 's ideas initiated , she might not have felt compelled to limit her experimentation with abstraction in the early 1920s . |
| 23 | Afterwards Leith could not help wondering if perhaps , with more experience of men , she might not have handled it better . |
| 24 | And while she might not have done herself a lot of favours over the last five years , it has to be concluded that she is better getting out while the going 's still good . |
| 25 | She might not have had a daughter to sing them with but she could enjoy their soulfullness on her own . |
| 26 | Alright , she might not have the most fantastic |
| 27 | She might not have had it all |
| 28 | She might not have done it , done it but like she might have |
| 29 | I had n't told her he was five foot two — she might n't have believed he was romantic anyway . |
| 30 | She might also have been incensed by the negative portrayal of homosexuality in the movie . |