Example sentences of "might [verb] [been] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carlo and McGowan stood on either side of the embalmer , he might 've been in custody . |
| 2 | Stalin is dead , and so since this summer is Andrei Gromyko , who as Deputy Foreign Minister at the time of the 1957 note , might have been in a position to provide some elucidation . |
| 3 | might have been in there to look at someone else , to talk with a club owner or having a drink . |
| 4 | ‘ But there might have been in the outhouses ? ’ |
| 5 | England 's World Cup preparation outdoors could clearly not be ignored but , even with a weakened squad , a medal might have been in reach . |
| 6 | It seemed that not only the president , but the whole country , might have been in some delightful lotus-sleep for the past few years . |
| 7 | He might have been in the mill . ’ |
| 8 | A COUPLE of Hail Marys might have been in order as the first-night audience left Dario Fo 's Vatican farce , The Pope and the Witch , which opened at the Comedy Theatre , London , on Monday . |
| 9 | Ours went , I think , to 2 , 5 and 7 ; the other floors might have been in another building , or another town . |
| 10 | If Skipper had been an older horse who knew what he should do and was simply messing about , a reprimand might have been in order . |
| 11 | Had the system been accepted the first commercial power satellite might have been in operation by 2010 . |
| 12 | Space there might have been in the Ark — but no dogs were allowed behind the pearly gates . |
| 13 | However he considered that Vial ‘ was a man of such good natural abilities that when his mind was at ease , he had so much application that his deficiencies , had he lived , might have been in a great measure made up ’ . |
| 14 | As for the House of Mattli , it might have been in a different world to the hostel , with its air of being a cross between a workhouse and a boarding school . |
| 15 | ‘ Otherwise we might have been in London , ’ Rab said . |
| 16 | Nevertheless the episode had shown the Government that it had no authority to ban newspapers published in Tanzania which were properly registered and also that it might have been in difficulty had it not discovered a technical irregularity in the case of Ulimwengu . |
| 17 | They are not linked in other ways , as they might have been in the past , as in mining villages , by other common bonds of interests . |
| 18 | But any flowers there might have been in the garden would probably have been eaten by the resident goats , rabbits and God-knows-whatever-else were around at the time , for the kind-hearted Edwardses never turned any sick or homeless creature away . |
| 19 | WHO DO YOU THINK YOU MIGHT HAVE BEEN IN PREVIOUS LIVES ? |
| 20 | A subsidy assessment of £40 suggests that this completes the account of his lands ; any there might have been in other counties can not be deduced from the available evidence . |
| 21 | There are two types of proposition in Freud 's theory which are not always as clearly distinguished as they might have been in his writing . |
| 22 | All the trees , so large now as to enclose this garden , excluding the sight of other houses , so that but for the complex of railway lines it might have been in the country , were in late summer leaf . |
| 23 | The tightly packed schiltrons might have been in some danger if the enemy 's Welsh archers had been used at once ; but Edward or his advisers thought they could settle things swiftly by an all-out cavalry charge . |
| 24 | That investigation had been initiated under rule 7.9(1) ( b ) of the Rules on the direction of the Chief Executive to the chief enforcement officer in the light of evidence that had come to Lautro 's attention suggesting that Norwich Union might have been in breach of various of the rules in failing adequately to monitor the business and operations of the Winchester Group and to ensure compliance with the Code of Conduct . |
| 25 | This guy when he the policeman spoke to him afterwards , his words to the policeman Now let's bear in mind he might have been in shock . |
| 26 | The end result might only be a slight scratch , but the potential might have been in that situation for something a lot worse . |
| 27 | If I 'd come when you first asked me , I might have been in Saracen for an entire month : I 'd probably have no job to come back to . ’ |
| 28 | But for the mechanical hospital bed , she might have been in a first-class hotel : the sitting room was agreeably furnished in eau-de-Nil , the bedroom in old rose ; the interconnecting rooms faced the sea over lawns and flower beds , though they were bleak at this time of the year . |
| 29 | We might have been in a shopping concourse and her cries some strange species of muzak : |
| 30 | Julia knew that he might have been in the room while she was unconscious , but his absence during her times awake began to fret her . |