Example sentences of "[pron] might be [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So someone might be Friar Lawrence , someone might be Romeo . |
| 2 | So someone might be Friar Lawrence , someone might be Romeo . |
| 3 | She could n't remember seeing a room which might be Rob 's , but of course she had n't had to explore the entire house before finding the passport . |
| 4 | However , ‘ I invite nobody into my soul ’ he declares , as if to banish the exhibitionist thought.44 And then if the search for suffering is allowed to eclipse the rest , we are back with Marmeladov squinnying into the bottom of his vodka jug ; whereas Stavrogin saying he wants to forgive himself might be Raskolnikov pondering retrospectively , selfcritically , on his admission of guilt at the police station . |
| 5 | Ceilings decorated by him are at Compton Place , Sussex , c .1728 , with reliefs of mythological subjects in high relief , as well as a plaster medallion with a portrait of an architect , who might be Colin Campbell [ q.v . ] . |
| 6 | The gentleman with the glass eye at the next table is discussing civic sculpture with a woman who might be Catherine Deneuve . |
| 7 | They occupied a pew in the body of the kirk , with Georgina shepherding in a row of dark-haired young women who might be Margaret Heatherton 's daughters or her husband 's . |
| 8 | We might , we might be Wednesday but |
| 9 | Wycliffe thought they might be Chelsea or Chelsea Derby . |
| 10 | Thought it might be Steen 's sort of thing . ’ |
| 11 | No , how do I know whether it might be Paul 's . |
| 12 | Why she should immediately think it might be Sebastian , when he had his own key anyway , she did n't know . |
| 13 | For a sweet moment she thought it might be Sebastian come home — but Sebastian had his key . |
| 14 | For Labour it might be Lady Antonia Pinter singing the poems of Roger McGough while accompanied by Larry Adler on the harmonica . |
| 15 | I thought about letting it ring , but there was a faint hope that it might be Sally . |
| 16 | Although it might be Wednesbury unreasonable or incompatible with statutory purposes for a rule to alter common law rights , this should be deduced from the words of the statute itself . |
| 17 | It might be Frank 's or someone 's . |
| 18 | From the shape of the building Maggie thought it might be Ralston 's Fruitshop , but could n't be sure . |
| 19 | Somehow she could never hear disembodied footsteps on the stairs without wondering fleetingly if it might be Mark returning as unexpectedly as he had left . |
| 20 | ‘ OK , it might be Chuck Berry or Hits of the 60s , but it 's cheap . ’ |
| 21 | For an unbalanced moment she thought it might be Gordon Hodge , pursuing her to see that she would not come back , and make a nuisance of herself to Edward . |
| 22 | He did n't want to answer it , thinking that it might be Vasco again , but he could n't afford not to . |
| 23 | It occurred to me that it might be Ruth Cohen again , but I could n't have been more wrong , for when I opened the door I found a young police constable standing there in his navy-blue mac wet with rain . |
| 24 | A little later , he 'd looked down avenues of faces , hoping it might be Helen . |
| 25 | Oh it might be Michael and Andrew Co , then . |
| 26 | Perhaps it might be Charlie Chaplin , a bit of a comic one or or summat like that and er |
| 27 | She rushed to answer , thinking that it might be Barney , but it was a young journalist from the Gloucester Gazette who had interviewed her a few months previously when her latest book was published . |
| 28 | Though the incidence of Becker is only one tenth that of Duchenne muscular dystrophy , the three families who refused a biopsy did so on the grounds that while they accepted their son had a muscular dystrophy they preferred to live in the hope that it might be Becker and so chose not to complete the diagnostic process . |
| 29 | She wondered if he might be Jeffrey Archer in disguise doing his research . |
| 30 | Perhaps he might be Liam Shakespeare after all . |