Example sentences of "we might have be " in BNC.
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| 1 | We might 've been , might be pleasantly surprised with these . |
| 2 | Well — if she had taken kindlier to her a year ago , we might have been wed by now , and I would have escaped the list . ’ |
| 3 | Had the interviewers encouraged in our minds the right attitude towards the politicians — total scepticism — we might have been less interested in watching their interminable television programmes . |
| 4 | We might have been told . |
| 5 | We might have been livestock that he was assessing for slaughter . |
| 6 | It occurred to me that we might have been equally misinformed about other things the Germans did . |
| 7 | However naughty we might have been at school , this was not mentioned at home . |
| 8 | It did n't happen , which had nothing to do with the state of mind we might have been in after Jonathan , but everything to do with another independent channel showing a related subject . |
| 9 | Above all we can not ignore it : whereas at one time we might have been able to smile at the perversity of the local watch committee in another town , the collective action of several dozen politically motivated local authorities to ban News International publications effectively took censorship in libraries well beyond the silly season in the Press ; and whereas we could once afford to hang back with our copies of Fanny Hill secure in the knowledge that we would be nowhere near the top of the prosecution list , Section 28 is in place and ready to pick us off should we try to share our enthusiasm for homosexual literature with more than a few of our consenting adult users . |
| 10 | ‘ We might have been murdered in our bed . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Otherwise we might have been in London , ’ Rab said . |
| 12 | It was partly true [ that we were not as good at TV as we might have been ] , but that was also partly distorted by how good we were at press . |
| 13 | I 'm crying as I write this because we might have been able to save her . |
| 14 | ‘ We might have been locked out . ’ |
| 15 | Had Buksh taken the appropriate action on each occasion — a yellow card and pointing to the spot respectively — we might have been spared the subsequent skirmishing : |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | If only the photographers had n't been there , we might have been able to hush it up . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Are you thinking about the fact that we might have been murdered ourselves last night ? ’ |
| 19 | It looked as though we might have been cooking the books . |
| 20 | We might have been in a shopping concourse and her cries some strange species of muzak : |
| 21 | But we are comparatively fortunate ; we might have been left to sift the world field of human nomenclature , like two blind men looting a bazaar for their own portraits … |
| 22 | Our lives are miserable as we remember times when we might have been kinder , we might have been more loving , less impatient . |
| 23 | Our lives are miserable as we remember times when we might have been kinder , we might have been more loving , less impatient . |
| 24 | We 've spent years examining the Bridge systems , but for all the good it 's done us we might have been blowing bubbles . |
| 25 | Instead we might have been strangers . |
| 26 | The moonless sky was overcast , and gliding into an opaque blackness we might have been in outer space . |
| 27 | It felt absurd that we should be indoors poring over papers when we might have been out there , basking in dappled sunlight , bathing in the lake . |
| 28 | God knows we were not always as discreet as we might have been . |
| 29 | The way in which some of the subsidies work is ludicrous , but had we been there at the beginning , we might have been able to reform it so that it could work to our advantage . |
| 30 | We might have been able to put more into housing this year , but we had to put £50 million out of the block into local authority spending . |