Example sentences of "it might [verb] [be] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ask , just ask him , it might 've been him . |
| 2 | it might 've been someone from cafe phoning up |
| 3 | She had had an unpleasant feeling it might have been her . |
| 4 | He wanted it to be a surprise for you , and I 'm only telling you in advance in case — in case you should think it might have been me . " |
| 5 | So suddenly , David had wanted something — I do n't know what it was — it might have been something like a synthesizer or some extraordinary thing for the show , but the money was n't there . |
| 6 | Many observers noticed the force and weight of his presence ; it might be called dedication , or ambition , or it might have been something below the level of consciousness which propelled him forward . |
| 7 | Then we thought it might have been something criminal — but Joe is clever enough to steer clear of anything illegal , the last think he needs is investigation by the police . |
| 8 | Chris said it might have been somebody that knew you like , was banging on the door . |
| 9 | Although 1/9 UDR in Antrim and 11 UDR in Portadown passed relatively uneventful days in their respective areas , another day it might have been their turn to face the sort of challenges met by 3 , 5 , 6 , 7/10 and 8 UDR on 30 June 1989 . |
| 10 | Your tentative benefit was not perhaps as clear as it might have been which would have made it easier to lead into my willingness to proceed . |
| 11 | It might have been what you said . |
| 12 | The child was perhaps a year old and was engaged in beating his — or it might have been her — mother about the shoulders with tiny chubby fists . |
| 13 | He was thankful she was n't wearing boots but her hair had disappeared again under an awful black felt hat that looked as if it might have been her father 's , and when she handed her coat in at the cloakroom she kept the hat on . |
| 14 | Well it might have been her elbow Christine you must n't be |
| 15 | It might have been himself a year ago . |
| 16 | It might have been anyone in Russia — or indeed , the world . |
| 17 | It might have been anyone . ’ |
| 18 | So was , was it also you that had got some , some , some dates in the references that had n't happened yet like the erm pe there was somebody it might have been you had actually referred to things that , you know , sort of twenty first of the fourth ninety four and things like that and it was sort of |
| 19 | From the first moments , when my brothers and I stood there incredulous as Blyth screamed and jumped and tugged at his leg , to the tearful farewell of Blyth 's parents and Diggs taking statements ( a bit even appeared in the Inverness Courier which was picked up for its curiosity value by a couple of the Fleet Street rags ) , not one person even suggested that it might have been anything other than a tragic and slightly macabre accident . |
| 20 | ‘ We are beginning to think that it might have been someone from his past , ’ Bragg said . |
| 21 | Or it might have been his membership of that dashing elite , the air fighters of World War I. |
| 22 | ‘ It might have been his car , ’ said Pascoe . |
| 23 | It never occurred to her until the Sunday evening that it might have been herself . |
| 24 | And I 've , I 've done that and it , there 's not one thing you can point to and say there 's no one in here because it 's several things , altogether , that indicate it , it might have been there 's no car on the drive , there might 've been , there might 've been milk still out . |
| 25 | It might have been my colleague Ann — who knew my whereabouts — or even my editor , come to congratulate me on the first pages of Lover at the Gate which I had faxed through from the hotel 's secretariat — or even Sophie , come to apologize , though I hardly imagined she had been promoted from child to lady in the few weeks of my absence . |
| 26 | It might have been anybody , kissing her , and , besides , she did not know him well , if at all . |