Example sentences of "might be [v-ing] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harper suddenly realized that he might be betraying some confidences . |
| 2 | We might be reading this morning 's dreary inconclusive state of play over secondary picketing . |
| 3 | So there again perhaps try and find somebody who 's from where they 've said they 're from and they might be ticking this box you know . |
| 4 | Sahnoun said in late July that as many as 5,000 people might be dying each day across the country , 1,500,000 were on the brink of death and 4,500,000 were nearing starvation ; together these figures represented almost the entire population of the country . |
| 5 | He noticed that Jim was wearing some very expensive-looking clothes , and feared he might be spending all Bella 's earnings on his own back . |
| 6 | We might be investigating it with an experiment or we might be doing some calculations on it . |
| 7 | She thought of what her colleagues and students might be doing this Wednesday morning — earnestly discussing the poetry of John Donne or the novels of Jane Austen or the nature of modernism , in centrally heated , carpeted rooms . |
| 8 | He thought that the L could stand for Larksoken and that the Whistler might be making some kind of statement about nuclear power , a protest perhaps . ’ |
| 9 | Briefly in the winter of 1966 – 67 it seemed as if the British might be making some progress towards a cease-fire agreement in conjunction with the USSR . |