Example sentences of "might have been [v-ing] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They might have been referring to somebody they knew . |
| 2 | ‘ And it did n't occur to you that I might have been referring to you ? ’ |
| 3 | She might have been speaking to him backwards in Swahili for all the attention he paid her explanation . |
| 4 | th you er I mean if it were very heavy you 'd almost sort of be prepared for it to go , but you know when you 're s s standing with a , something quite light , and you might have been standing with it a little while in your hand , and then suddenly the hand goes and ca n't you see that 's ve that 's very upsetting , it makes you not very confident . |
| 5 | He might have been waiting for someone . |
| 6 | Somehow Koons has turned what might have been titillating into something with the erotic appeal of a smutty , B-grade slasher film — the images draw you in only by their sheer gross-out power . |