Example sentences of "might [verb] been [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | That might have been written a week ago following the extraordinary dispute over a young girl 's ear . |
2 | Three , he might have been taking the piss , provoking the crowd . |
3 | In the morning , I slept through the pigeons , but around 8.30 a loud banging started down in the nave like they might have been building a scaffold or something . |
4 | Lou Duva , co-trainer of Holyfield , might have been cranking the hype handle too far when he said that this evening 's fight might be a once in a lifetime affair . |
5 | Two , he might have been reclaiming the flag for non-racists . |
6 | In 1543 , Knox joyfully recorded the effect of allowing the reading of scripture in the vernacular : ‘ Then might have been seen the Bible lying upon almost every gentleman 's table . |
7 | They might have been using the whole of the attendance allowance erm to pay for carers , outside of the care that we provided , erm or a member of the family might have given up work to look after another member of the family . |
8 | She might have been wearing a sign like those you see in car windows : GIVE MY CHILD A CHANCE — DO N'T PULL BACK . |
9 | ‘ Things might have been handled a bit better — but it 's between him and the team . ’ |
10 | ‘ If we had been at home Rachel might have been spending the day with us instead . ’ |
11 | He might have been giving an apple to a horse . |
12 | WHEN Raymond Leppard , prone to roar ‘ no Max Bruch ! ’ at those whose Baroque style he regarded as over fulsome , withdrew from Tuesday 's Tunnell Trust concert , the shrewdest move , perhaps , might have been to change the programme . |
13 | Alexei 's favourite spot was in what he supposed might have been termed a clearing — at least it was in the centre of a circle of four rocks , each one the size of a crouching man . |
14 | The effect of the order of Waite J. , had it not been immediately stayed by this court , might have been to require the health authority to put J. on a ventilator in an intensive care unit , and thereby possibly to deny the benefit of those limited resources to a child who was much more likely than J. to benefit from them . |
15 | The latter view might have been applauded a year previously : after Tiananmen , it sounded merely cynical . |
16 | Said reprovingly because George looked as if he might have been following the lesson . |
17 | Erm you had a statement of Barbara 's , if it was in there , it was planned so that you crew can work harder erm although you filled in the bonus question well , the there was a tend dangerous tendency for you be sucked in to go into the bonus and I think you did well to say yeah well we 'd better walk along to that so you held out which was nice because if I had if you had n't tackled that you might have been shown the door once you 'd gone through that . |