Example sentences of "might have been [v-ing] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Might have been queuing up for the keep-fit actually , yes I was , I was queuing up to go to keep-fit and there was a woman in the queue saying that about so and so and so , ooh he 's moving she said ! |
| 2 | Your reviewer was rather presumptuous in assuming they might have been living together with ‘ kids from previous marriages ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's difficult to understand why he might have been moving badly going to the start — perhaps it was the dirt or maybe it was because the heat was so intense . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ It 's difficult to understand why he might have been moving badly going to the start , perhaps it was the dirt or maybe it was the heat . ’ |
| 5 | Although the ball might have been slipping down the leg side , Taylor was adjudged lbw by umpire Tony Crafter , who was officiated in his 33rd Test , breaking Bob Crockett 's previous Australian record . |
| 6 | He might have been rocking slightly , it was difficult to tell . |
| 7 | He might have been watching over all of them for a century . |
| 8 | As the porter said , the corpses might have been lying there for days , even weeks . |
| 9 | ‘ Your father — your real father , that is — might have been working anywhere . |
| 10 | Ten minutes before you might have been having quite a close conversation . ’ |
| 11 | A dragon might have been suffocating there . |
| 12 | As I followed her up the pathway , every inch of her breathed that she was being a good girl , and as the driver settled her in the front seat beside him she gave him a happy smile ; almost , one felt — seeing the hat-boxes and cases piled up behind them — they might have been starting out on their honeymoon . |
| 13 | For a clue as to what might have been going on , we turn again to the Chinese system of feng shui , which was mentioned in Chapter 4 . |
| 14 | However , in general , he was not allowed to go there since his presence excited all of the large apes housed there and interfered with any research that might have been going on . |
| 15 | Engaged in a quarrel , in which some bullying might have been going on , the younger boy had produced a pistol and shouted : ‘ You wo n't touch me when I have this . |
| 16 | In some counties , the land tax was relatively lightly assessed ; in Cumberland and Westmorland , for example , landowners might have been paying less than 5 per cent of the true value of their rents . |
| 17 | Looking back now they might have been playing out the rôle of characters from some nineteenth-century romantic novel . |