Example sentences of "might [verb] been [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was looking at the ground , he seemed to be concentrating ; he might 've been trying to remember something . |
| 2 | He might have been tempted to say , it 's sort of a job by which he meant , it 's something that I have to do . |
| 3 | A historically inclined contemporary might have been tempted to compare Alexander II 's outlook in mid-1862 with that of Alexander I in 1805 or Nicholas I at the end of 1830 . |
| 4 | It was directed at an audience to which a man of lesser wit and native grace might have been tempted to talk down ( it has to be remembered that by this time Boulestin and his restaurant had already become almost legendary ) but this was a trap into which he was at the same time too subtle and too naturally courteous to fall . |
| 5 | But for the heavy torch in the older woman 's hand she might have been tempted to make a dash for it . |
| 6 | Again , he might have been tempted to land and feed , but he felt an urging to fly on , to travel far , as if today of all days he would begin to feel freedom at last . |
| 7 | Had they seen Saturday 's encounter , the Kiwis might have been tempted to catch a plane home . |
| 8 | However , he did concede that " there were indications that some activities and individuals might have been motivated to prevent success in constitutional goals " and that " some activities led to the deaths of people " . |
| 9 | Richard Halton might have been felt to have the least enviable job in taking on Simon Keenlyside 's much praised Papageno , but he did so with great panache and comic flair , and sang soundly as well . |
| 10 | One of the reasons that previous managers have baulked at making an individual a special case , in the way Gascoigne has become , is the resentment of others who — despite being internationals in their own right — might have been asked to do donkey work . |
| 11 | For example , they might have been asked to meet someone or open something . |
| 12 | The fiction of Tolkien and Lewis is a compound of ancient fable — classical , Norse and Wagnerian — with an eye cocked to modern reality , and it might have been written to prove that there is a reality beyond realism . |
| 13 | It would , however , have been interesting to see what relationships might have been revealed had WIRS picked up information on casual workers , since casual working ( albeit involving direct employment ) is also a considerably less regulated form of temporary working and gives an employer considerable disposition over his labour inputs . |
| 14 | It would be futile to speculate what might have been achieved had these two separate teams felt able to cooperate . |
| 15 | ‘ I might have been getting changed . ’ |
| 16 | He might have been intending to go back to his family and appear utterly horrified while breaking the news of my death . |
| 17 | These comments do not seem to be based primarily on the notion of standardization as a process ( J. Milroy and L. Milroy , 1985a ) that might have been beginning to have an effect about this time : they present the standard language as a coherent entity — a variety , like any other variety . |
| 18 | But that pleasure was tinged with sadness because his mother , Joanna , is n't alive to see him in a role he might have been born to play . |
| 19 | I imagined that this might have been done to obliterate a directional ‘ fix ’ to throw treasure hunters off the scent . |
| 20 | Progress towards this happy state would be hindered by revolution ; some of those who read his book might have been inspired to take some practical action , so in order to make clear his position Godwin produced a pamphlet in 1795 entitled Considerations on Lord Grenville ‘ s and Mr. Pitt 's Bills in which he supported the government 's repression of ‘ agitators and democrats ’ . |
| 21 | Apart from these weaknesses , the Government has seen fit to deny an additional safeguard which might have been presumed to operate . |
| 22 | Some property damage was foreseeable and the fact that it was more extensive than might have been foreseen did not matter . |
| 23 | Indeed , he might have been perturbed to think that I was diverting so much energy towards his defence ; but , so far as I know , he was ignorant of these interventions of mine , as I never showed him the letters or alluded to them . |
| 24 | However , he also thought she might have been trying to demonstrate the extent of her distress to her family and possibly to her husband . |
| 25 | She might have been trying to reach our Post for help , but she had crawled under the last parapet , and could go no farther . |
| 26 | We think he might have been trying to find you . ’ |
| 27 | It is possible but unlikely that progress might have been made had the UN adopted an investigative role instead of a course of action proposed by the United States . |
| 28 | On another occasion , this suspicion might have been calculated to cripple me with a sense of my own worthlessness . |
| 29 | They might have been intended to catch the blade of an opponent , thus preventing it from sliding past the hilt , and injuring the holder . ’ |
| 30 | Atherton might have been saved had he played forward , and yet his judgment against his previous 185 balls was almost unceasingly correct . |