Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] might have be a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or it might have been a bigger concern than I ken . |
| 2 | In any other circumstances , Fabia felt that she might have been a trace worried — it was n't every day that she was in a foreign land , with a foreign male who , having fed her , tried his hand at seducing her . |
| 3 | And came to the uncomfortable conclusion that it might have been a warning … |
| 4 | The second is that , in fact , direct democracy could be a great deal more widely practised than it actually is , and that some modern technological developments have made it easier to implement than it might have been a century ago . |
| 5 | I thought he might have had a place at the Youth , it seemed to me that he might have been a leader if he 'd had the encouragement . |
| 6 | He could not see where Terry Place and his killing of William Egan , nor the idea that he might have been a poisoner , fitted into all this , perhaps nowhere , but his violence seemed to have a kind of a parallel in the Essex cases , which might illuminate his own problem . |
| 7 | The little blue trolls from space , the black-eyed pointy-chinned grey things in charge , the anal probing they inflicted on Christopher Walken inside something that looked like it might have been a UFO , event he awe-inspiring ham standard of Walken 's performance — they were all OK . |
| 8 | He reckons that death was due to a fractured skull , caused by a blow on the head from some heavy but softish instrument — he suggested a piece of lead piping wrapped in a sock , but it might have been a sandbag , or anything like that . |
| 9 | No , but I might have known him because he might have been a junior . |