Example sentences of "[pers pn] might [verb] [be] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I might do is steal credit cards and use them . |
| 2 | Possibly because some of them might 've been councillors and knew the ways that sort of er things went on and how to get things done officially and above board . |
| 3 | She might have been Eve , as Milton has pictured her , sitting upon the green bank , looking into the pool . |
| 4 | Instead we might have been strangers . |
| 5 | We might have been livestock that he was assessing for slaughter . |
| 6 | But my mother knew who it was , so she quickly hid Molly underneath the stairs and that was that , otherwise we might have been brothers-in-law . |
| 7 | The whole route was lined by men of the Cent-Gardes , whose immobility was such that according to one guest ‘ they might have been statues ’ , but she felt unable to study them in detail , so terrified was she of slipping on the highly polished parquet that her whole mind was fixed on arriving safely at the dining room . |
| 8 | Apart from their costumes and the props that they carried , they might have been factory workers anywhere . |
| 9 | But er they might have been assumptions that we should n't have made . |
| 10 | They might have been lovers . |
| 11 | On another low table by the wall there was an inexpensive stereo unit and some uneven stacks of records ; he could n't make out the details on the posters on the wall above the unit , but they might have been Escher prints . |
| 12 | They might have been twins . |
| 13 | so it might 've been Rob that went out with her , but I du n no . |
| 14 | It might have been Joanne 's dad , I |
| 15 | Or was it to be understood as the horrified realization that , in the words of Hercule Poirot , ‘ It might have been ME . ’ |
| 16 | Well it might have been Jes cos I do n't know tha well they 've got , I think they 've got two children . |
| 17 | It might have been mince meat just ti cooked in tins . |
| 18 | IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN WINTER , THE SKY WAS SO low , thick and grey . |
| 19 | It might have been Aristotle speaking . |
| 20 | Well it might have been July , I ca n't remember . |
| 21 | ‘ L ’ ' and the other kids were to find it — it might have been Licorice-straps . |
| 22 | ‘ Have you ever thought it might have been Mrs Downes who killed Dr Kemp ? |
| 23 | Character A — or it might have been B again , for he seemed to be a right prune — had left late or had left early travelling at half the speed of the other . |
| 24 | It was easy to imagine that it might have been Camelot , like in the picture story-books I 'd read . |
| 25 | Two trained and experienced businessmen in one landscaping company is unusual , and Peter suspects it might have been part of the reason for success . |
| 26 | ‘ It might have been part of the equipment those scientists dropped into the sea when they were here , ’ he suggested . |
| 27 | As Hannah moves fluently along her journey into the past , what emerges most strongly to the listener is a sense of privilege — that here is a survivor of a lost way of life which was so innocent and simple , so materially deprived , yet spiritually rich , that it might have been part of another civilization altogether , surviving from an earlier century , perhaps . |
| 28 | It might have been cream . |
| 29 | I think it might have been Saturday possibly . |
| 30 | That was less than three and a half hours ago , but it might have been years . |