Example sentences of "[pers pn] might [be] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Rose said : ‘ I think I might be the killer . |
| 2 | He seemed to think I might be the tea lady . ’ |
| 3 | He only knew that he had lost her , and she might be the liar , cheat and whore he thought she was , or the injured innocent she claimed to be — he did not care which , for whatever she was she had taken his life and his hopes with her . |
| 4 | UNDER her wide-brimmed hat , crowning a buttoned-up two-piece suit she might be the world 's smartest potato picker . |
| 5 | The idea that you might be the person we 've been looking for came after I 'd met you . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ They might be the watch — ’ |
| 7 | THEY might be the underdogs but Sunder land have proved in the past that when it comes to Wembley finals they can rise to the occasion . |
| 8 | Naturally most of the boys opted for ‘ the strip ’ and each time the innuendo was made the girls pretended it was terribly witty and original , If a little naughty , just as they did when they were asked for the twentieth time if perhaps they might be the prize . |
| 9 | So when Ray Neal of Thringstone Aquatics had some Victorian Cichlids for sale Nancy decided they might be the answer . |
| 10 | Any suggestion that they might be the cause of problems is simply denied : it is declared that they could not be . |
| 11 | On the back of its thorax it has two flap-like sideways extensions of the chitinous shell that look as though they might be the rudiments of wings . |
| 12 | More senior posts were employed as tools of patronage at a higher level , for they might be the object of the ambition of a substantial freeholder with his own political interest , whose support might be of value to the Administration directly . |
| 13 | But it is useful anyway to speculate about possible findings and so some possible explanations ; the characters who use irony might be similar in type to Austen herself ( in class , gender , age ) ; or they might be the characters who function as heroes and heroines in the novels . |
| 14 | You 're paying them starvation wages , and someone else therefore is keeping them alive , might be their husbands , it might be the state giving them charity , it might be the state giving them pensions or unemployment benefits , it might be charities giving them clothes and food just to keep them alive , and that that 's immoral . |
| 15 | You 're paying them starvation wages , and someone else therefore is keeping them alive , might be their husbands , it might be the state giving them charity , it might be the state giving them pensions or unemployment benefits , it might be charities giving them clothes and food just to keep them alive , and that that 's immoral . |
| 16 | It might be the monarch if we bred the right kind of king … |
| 17 | It might be the name of a character ( there was one already he was sure sounded familiar ; it was one of his bits of Evidence ) , it might be the description of a place or a sequence of events … all he needed was that Key . |
| 18 | At first he thought it might be the Headmaster but even if he ran to check , he never arrived in time to find out who , or what it was . |
| 19 | Khan and the Husayn twins were making offensive gargling noises while dancing round a statue that looked to Robert as if it might be the Lord Vishnu ; behind them , Mahmud did his Native American impression . |
| 20 | It might be the help the wine . |
| 21 | as to which of those distinguished people should be dispensed with , but nevertheless it might be the advantage of everybody if the numbers of the cabinet were reduced to sixteen , I personally thought that for a very long time . |
| 22 | This wo n't tune in this one , it might be the tuner itself . |
| 23 | No group claimed responsibility for the attack , but there was speculation that it might be the work either of a " freelance " splinter group in the Medellín drug cartel , or of the rival Cali drug cartel , since the Medellín cartel leaders themselves , and many of their followers , were loyal bullfight fans . |
| 24 | raised the curiosity of some ladies , who happened to be at the Castle in May 1782 , to examine the ruined Chapel , and observing a large block of alabaster , fixed in the North wall of the Chapel , they imagined it might be the back of a monument formerly placed there . |
| 25 | Nearer , he thought it might be the tailplane of an aircraft , possibly Australian . |
| 26 | Or it might be the breaking of an oath or the refusal to accept the decrees of Rome , as with King John . |
| 27 | In 1993 , it might be the turn of Gooch , the professional . |
| 28 | In 1993 , it might be the turn of Gooch , the professional . |
| 29 | and it might be the winter |
| 30 | His stepfather thinks it might be the boy . |