Example sentences of "[pers pn] might have been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I might have been on the train that hit him ! |
| 2 | In normal times , I might have been on the next flight out and by morning Miss Schlegel — a schoolgirl , yes , but what a schoolgirl , probably tanned , certainly firm and bouncy , and unquestionably an amateur theologian of weird and savage genius — would have found herself thickly slathered in Noxzema Regular Protective Shave Formula and roped to a groyne . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | I might have been in bed with measles when I went to school , but nothing else . ’ |
| 5 | In fact , afterwards the doctor told me that the training had probably helped and that I might have been in a lot more serious trouble if I had not been so fit . |
| 6 | I can honestly say I ca n't remember a show I definitely did n't like doing , although I might have been in some that did n't turn out as I though they would . ’ |
| 7 | They were not activists in the movement — some of them might have been from the Moss and come to watch the barney — but all were sent to the jail in Inveraray and then taken to Edinburgh for prosecution . |
| 8 | When she might have been at her most useful , since she was so much more skilled in nursing than Annunciata , she was not allowed near Mrs Browning . |
| 9 | She was barely seventeen , the youngest of the Three Musketeers , as they had styled themselves long ago ; yet in everything except appearance she might have been at least ten years older . |
| 10 | ‘ I think she might have been with a bit of persuasion ; it was my father who was against it . |
| 11 | Flighty as she might have been until then , Liza Tremayne was still a virgin . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The thought did come to his mind a week or so later that she might have been in love with him , but it seemed a ludicrous idea as well as self-congratulatory , and he put it by . |
| 14 | It had a vague familiarity to it , and she wondered if she might have been in here before . |
| 15 | ‘ She looked comparatively young , but she might have been in her late thirties , signorina . ’ |
| 16 | One time no a long time ago , which it might actually , might you might have been at the meeting , I do n't know . |
| 17 | That 's why you might have been on it you see . |
| 18 | WHO DO YOU THINK YOU MIGHT HAVE BEEN IN PREVIOUS LIVES ? |
| 19 | as far as I was concerned you might have been in there another fifteen minutes ! |
| 20 | However naughty we might have been at school , this was not mentioned at home . |
| 21 | ‘ Otherwise we might have been in London , ’ Rab said . |
| 22 | We might have been in a shopping concourse and her cries some strange species of muzak : |
| 23 | The moonless sky was overcast , and gliding into an opaque blackness we might have been in outer space . |
| 24 | The Ministry did tell us not to waste effort growing flowers , but somehow one always felt they were not quite as right as they might have been on that one . |
| 25 | Yes , if you can , if you can recognise it , or if you 've got , or if , several members of erm , several students we had when I was on grocery at Camden , we had to , I think it was twenty eight on Saturday afternoon , they might have been on checkouts , well I mean , they 're still scheduled to my , I 'm saying out of that about four of them er , are still working at Camden full-time . |
| 26 | The adoption , for instance , of Darwinian views of evolution depended not simply on the intellectual breakthrough of a brilliant mind but on the conjuncture of social movements that made these propositions more acceptable then than they might have been at other periods . |
| 27 | They might have been upon the surface of the moon . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ Oh , I thought they might have been in your family . ’ |