Example sentences of "he might have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He might have been obeyed . |
| 2 | ‘ Make me an offer , ’ he might have been saying . |
| 3 | And I accept that he might have been upset but there are no polemics , so why destroy a great victory ? |
| 4 | In a similar way he might have been surprised by the figure he cut in prose or come to that in life . |
| 5 | He might have been small but Roy Fredericks hit the ball exceptionally hard . |
| 6 | He might have been stumped on 44 but that was the only chance he gave . |
| 7 | If he had allowed her to take him back to London , he might have been stuck for life with a woman in her thirties ( and getting older by the day ) . |
| 8 | Dot guessed he might have been only pretending . |
| 9 | And still without needing to turn my head , but looking straight to the front , and walking at the same even pace along the path , I was conscious of a man perched motionless on the top bar of the gate , one leg over , so still that he might have been part of the gate itself . |
| 10 | He might have been killed ! ’ |
| 11 | He might have been drowned , or savaged by that stupid animal . ’ |
| 12 | The only impressions from his heavy sleep which touched him with a faintest trace were mysteriously , elusively compounded of plumed candle flame , drumming rain , a ship held by ice , huddled sheep , and a malignant shadow stooped-muttering over a desk or table or bench in a room or a cell he thought he might have been able to recognize if only he could have opened his eyes . |
| 13 | The only impressions from his heavy sleep which touched him with a faintest trace were elusively compounded of dank , dripping trees , dazzling headlights , stairways , huddled sheep , a ship held by ice mast-high , and a sick man with skin blotched with words gibbering upon a bed in a room in a house he thought he might have been able to recognize if only he could have opened his eyes . |
| 14 | Wrapped up in his agreeably muddled versions of events , he might have been speaking from Mars : and with this last screen show , this cinematic oddity , the scandal sank away . |
| 15 | He might have been hiding … heard Harry 's car arrive . ’ |
| 16 | He might have been intending to go back to his family and appear utterly horrified while breaking the news of my death . |
| 17 | Presumably he was drunk , but he might have been ill , or even dead . |
| 18 | He might have been in the mill . ’ |
| 19 | Jackie looked as if he might have been going to put a hand on Biff 's arm . |
| 20 | He might have been about six . |
| 21 | People thought he might have been joking , but he was n't . |
| 22 | Had he been English he might have been described as a typical eccentric . |
| 23 | Robert , the Duke of Normandy , was in Italy at that time , otherwise he might have been able to challenge Henry . |
| 24 | He might have been listening to Moses when he came down from the mountain . |
| 25 | Had she accepted , he might have been back at The priory now , with her as his bride . |
| 26 | He might have been tempted to say , it 's sort of a job by which he meant , it 's something that I have to do . |
| 27 | He might have been shy but he was not overtly quirky , poetic , or obsessed with icons such as James Dean or Oscar Wilde . |
| 28 | ‘ He — he might have been killed ! ’ whispered Ann , hurrying down . |
| 29 | He might have been planning a Cooks ' Tour . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , he might have been well satisfied with the outcome . |