Example sentences of "might [verb] [been] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had he been there earlier he might have been asked a less direct question . |
| 2 | That might have been written a week ago following the extraordinary dispute over a young girl 's ear . |
| 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 | She might have been wearing a sign like those you see in car windows : GIVE MY CHILD A CHANCE — DO N'T PULL BACK . |
| 5 | It is a tenable hypothesis that Bayezid II did indeed set a pattern and that many of the later foundations involving a joint muderris/muftilik were made simply in imitation of his precedent , though their effect might have been to create an official muftilik where none had existed before or to upgrade an existing muftilik ( which latter may well have been Bayezid II's intention in Amasya and Istanbul ) . |
| 6 | ‘ Things might have been handled a bit better — but it 's between him and the team . ’ |
| 7 | We might even have had a decent election and the country might have been saved a good deal earlier , but everyone knows that that is how we got here . |
| 8 | Wilkinson , who might have been sporting a more cheerful expression this morning but for a number of glaring misses by Eric Cantona , said : ‘ Whipping the people responsible is not the answer . |
| 9 | But he might have been speaking a foreign language . |
| 10 | He might have been giving an apple to a horse . |
| 11 | He might have been planning a Cooks ' Tour . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The latter view might have been applauded a year previously : after Tiananmen , it sounded merely cynical . |
| 14 | Until last week this latter option might have been considered a possible piece of government lunacy . |
| 15 | For instance , domestic violence is now seen as unacceptable , whereas until recently it might have been considered a ‘ private ’ affair . |