Example sentences of "[pers pn] might have [been] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I would probably still be running anyway , but the Veteran scene has kept me motivated when I might have been just drifting around with my running . |
| 2 | Did you think I might have been here then ? ’ |
| 3 | Well I said I would go , but I might have been like un-elected |
| 4 | If your father 's reputation were the beginning and the end of the matter , I might have been less intransigent all along . |
| 5 | I think if it had been a ghost , if the girl had been transparent and headless , I might have been less astonished . |
| 6 | I might have been very different . |
| 7 | I might have been too if I was n't so new to the game , I suppose . |
| 8 | ‘ Is it any wonder that , while I might have been too hard-headed to accept what is happening to me , I could not deny I actually felt my heart give a tug that night ? ’ |
| 9 | I might have been as good as you , and perhaps wiser . |
| 10 | ‘ If I 'd taken more trouble with economics I might have been more effective as Prime Minister . |
| 11 | Wiping them might have been enough for most people — but not for somebody who was trying to do card tricks . ’ |
| 12 | She might have been here yesterday . |
| 13 | She might have been pretty once , but not any more . |
| 14 | If it had not been for the shamelessness of it , Wilson felt she might have been sorely tempted to exploit this extraordinary advantage . |
| 15 | Otherwise you might have been much more badly hurt . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ You might have been seriously ill , ’ she said . |
| 17 | ‘ You might have been once , but not since you were about seventeen , I 'll bet , ’ he gritted , and his head came down . |
| 18 | It occurred to me that we might have been equally misinformed about other things the Germans did . |
| 19 | Had the interviewers encouraged in our minds the right attitude towards the politicians — total scepticism — we might have been less interested in watching their interminable television programmes . |
| 20 | Our lives are miserable as we remember times when we might have been kinder , we might have been more loving , less impatient . |
| 21 | Still we might have been very different . |
| 22 | Had they known how rare such a commodity was in a woman 's college at that date , they might have been even more astonished , but in a sense , looking round Flora 's room , with its bright scatter cushions and Picasso prints and posters for plays at the ADC , with its invitations on the mantelpiece , with its gas fire and clutter of old shoes , with its romantic piles of what looked like lecture notes and essays , with its candle in a pewter stick and its wilting rose in a vase , they were beyond astonishment . |
| 23 | Smugglers , escaped convicts , drenched fishermen , or they might have been just watching the storm , voyeuristically curious to see a boat break up in choppy water . |
| 24 | In some ways those days when she had lived in Paula 's shadow seemed a very long time ago , in others they might have been just yesterday . |
| 25 | ‘ I was told there was a possibility they might have been here yesterday , ’ he explained , carefully avoiding glancing at Ronni . |
| 26 | However , Lithuania are n't going to be as dangerous as they might have been as several of their top stars did n't make the trip . |
| 27 | They might have been very good , but they have n't given you this new life , this new birth John , er Nicodemus , you 've got to be born again . |
| 28 | At last the Barracks loomed into sight , and if anyone had been peeping from the window at that unsociable hour , they might have been hard put to distinguish which was the boy and which the shadow . |
| 29 | The ninety acres of entrancing if formalized beauty of the park , crossed by paths so convenient that they might have been purposefully designed to lead from one centre of power to another , must , he thought , have heard more secrets than any other part of London . |
| 30 | BY THE time they got to Woodstock they might have been half a million strong , but give them a few days in the mud and they 'd soon wandered off into an acid daze looking for luxuries like a toilet , somewhere to sleep and a decent tofu burger . |