Example sentences of "they might [vb infin] [be] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Possibly because some of them might 've been councillors and knew the ways that sort of er things went on and how to get things done officially and above board . |
| 2 | The whole route was lined by men of the Cent-Gardes , whose immobility was such that according to one guest ‘ they might have been statues ’ , but she felt unable to study them in detail , so terrified was she of slipping on the highly polished parquet that her whole mind was fixed on arriving safely at the dining room . |
| 3 | Apart from their costumes and the props that they carried , they might have been factory workers anywhere . |
| 4 | But er they might have been assumptions that we should n't have made . |
| 5 | They might have been lovers . |
| 6 | On another low table by the wall there was an inexpensive stereo unit and some uneven stacks of records ; he could n't make out the details on the posters on the wall above the unit , but they might have been Escher prints . |
| 7 | They might have been twins . |