Example sentences of "[pers pn] might have been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I might have been getting changed . ’ |
| 2 | If I had n't done that I might have been shot in the eye and could have gone blind . |
| 3 | Luckily my mother was out of the room at the time , or Dawn and I might have been sent to our room for giving her precious cat a heart attack . |
| 4 | As the days passed I might have been telling him the truth , for I lost weight far more successfully than on any diet I have ever attempted . |
| 5 | But I might have been speaking to a corpse , she was so pale and still and silent . |
| 6 | ‘ Has it occurred to you that I nearly disturbed the murderer — that I might have been killed as well ? |
| 7 | ‘ Had it come five minutes earlier , ’ he said when he heard the news , ‘ I might have been saved . |
| 8 | ‘ And it did n't occur to you that I might have been referring to you ? ’ |
| 9 | No you did n't have you did n't have a finishing hand , you did n't really have a brilliant first two hands and then the pick of the one , two , three bouncer I might I might have been persuaded to play the one , two , three bouncer and hope that that got through but to finish with an ace flush but good . |
| 10 | Because it suddenly occurs to me that I might have been left alone to get on with this assignment if my divisional head had n't beamed in on my activities and seen something she did n't like in my relationship with Rainbow . |
| 11 | So , let's think about our objectives , first of all an objective , I might have come to Abbey Life to make money , last year , I might have been working in a factory , earning fifteen , twelve , fifteen thousand a year , and I might make my objective in my first year with Abbey Life to earn sixty thousand pounds . |
| 12 | You did not tell me what you had been doing , or where you had been , and you were not interested in whatever I might have been doing . |
| 13 | Now with this one the one we 've just done you do n't really know how far to go I mean I might have been going to ask erm how long has he been travelling if he 's been riding for a thousand hours . |
| 14 | Both the way he selected people and the status and accountability he gave them might have been suggested to him by John Howard . |
| 15 | Any one of them might have been used for an unlawful occasion , but , if so , the most diligent inquiries failed to bring it to light . |
| 16 | She might 've been calculating something . |
| 17 | Or do you think she might have been pushed ? |
| 18 | She might have been mistaken , of course , but no — she felt sure she was right . |
| 19 | There was only time to whisper his name before his lips claimed hers in a kiss of such tenderness and passion that her doubts were scattered along with any inhibitions she might have been harbouring . |
| 20 | Perhaps there had been a moment where Lucy 's guard had been down and she might have been diverted , but the moment had now passed . |
| 21 | But for the heavy torch in the older woman 's hand she might have been tempted to make a dash for it . |
| 22 | In the first instance decision of Harvey [ 1988 ] Crim.L.R. 241 , a confession of murder made by a psychopathically disordered woman was , it is submitted , rightly excluded when it became apparent that she might have been motivated by a childlike desire to protect her lover , whom she had over-heard confessing to the same offence . |
| 23 | She might have been reading from a tombstone . |
| 24 | She might have been wearing a sign like those you see in car windows : GIVE MY CHILD A CHANCE — DO N'T PULL BACK . |
| 25 | She might have been speaking to him backwards in Swahili for all the attention he paid her explanation . |
| 26 | If the women had been less busy she might have been seen while she was exploring , but with Lady Marion 's own baby due soon they had plenty of fine weaving and sewing to occupy their eyes . |
| 27 | She might have been trying to reach our Post for help , but she had crawled under the last parapet , and could go no farther . |
| 28 | However , he also thought she might have been trying to demonstrate the extent of her distress to her family and possibly to her husband . |
| 29 | ‘ How did I get here ? ’ she asked , looking around a shabby but pleasant room , feeling so frail that she might have been made of china , china broken into a thousand pieces . |
| 30 | She might have been drinking . |