Example sentences of "he might [verb] been [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could not see where Terry Place and his killing of William Egan , nor the idea that he might have been a poisoner , fitted into all this , perhaps nowhere , but his violence seemed to have a kind of a parallel in the Essex cases , which might illuminate his own problem . |
| 2 | It is also a question we would ask about the tomb of a knight , whose collar suggests he might have been a Lancastrian . |
| 3 | In former times he might have been a nobleman 's factotum , now I dare say he is a film director 's personal assistant , and he leans forward obsequiously to catch his companion 's every word . |
| 4 | The monastic chronicler in later Wessex who wrote up the entry classifying the invasion seems to have got his dates wrong ; recent scholars have suggested he might have been a quarter of a century too late . |
| 5 | ( You 'd think he might have been a bit more careful — after all , this was n't happening in the Dark Ages before birth control was invented . ) |
| 6 | I know , he might have been a bit better , she , he had a fight , he had some Whiskers for his dinner last night , I tell him he ai n't |
| 7 | He says he might have been a clerk or a waiter if he had gone ; he sees very clearly how circumstances makes lives . |
| 8 | I think he might have been a security man of some kind , although I could n't prove it to you . |
| 9 | If he had n't been a detective he might have been a historian . |
| 10 | No , but I might have known him because he might have been a junior . |
| 11 | Some other time , he might have been a hymn writer , perhaps . |
| 12 | He felt he might have been a lord , or at least a prosperous shopkeeper about to be driven to his mansion — except that there was no horse . |
| 13 | I thought he might have had a place at the Youth , it seemed to me that he might have been a leader if he 'd had the encouragement . |
| 14 | If Gustave had n't been the Bear , he might have been the Camel . |
| 15 | With his pointed chin , he might have been an elf out of story-land . |
| 16 | To Constance 's English eyes , his skin was so brown he might have been an Indian . |