Example sentences of "might have [be] [verb] [conj] he " in BNC.

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1 Since Gregory belonged to the senatorial aristocracy , it might have been assumed that he would accept its literary traditions .
2 Lives might have been saved if he had not waited about two hours before reporting the crash in April last year .
3 The Australian bren gunner might have been caught as he moved smartly back up the steep hill had not ‘ two natives appeared from nowhere ’ and carried his gun at a quick trot over the hill .
4 DeVore might have been lying when he said he had no motive in helping her , but he was right about Mach wanting her dead .
5 If it was n't for the air of wary intelligence about him it might have been supposed that he was a barbarian from the Hubland wastes .
6 The King was , in a sense , the guardian of this agreement , and it might have been expected that he would remind the party leaders of it .
7 ‘ The accident might have been avoided if he had adopted an approach which enabled him to keep the crane in sight .
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