Example sentences of "might [verb] been [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He appealed for information from anyone who had witnessed the incident , particularly people who might have been leaving the nearby Greenstead social club at about the same time . |
| 2 | Three , he might have been taking the piss , provoking the crowd . |
| 3 | IN THE DARK days of 1916 , what might have been called the ‘ Battle of Britain ’ was being fought only partially in the skies over the homeland . |
| 4 | Lou Duva , co-trainer of Holyfield , might have been cranking the hype handle too far when he said that this evening 's fight might be a once in a lifetime affair . |
| 5 | Two , he might have been reclaiming the flag for non-racists . |
| 6 | In 1543 , Knox joyfully recorded the effect of allowing the reading of scripture in the vernacular : ‘ Then might have been seen the Bible lying upon almost every gentleman 's table . |
| 7 | It looked as though we might have been cooking the books . |
| 8 | Members of the local Asian community ran onto the pitch to congratulate their South African hero , when they might have been supporting the Indians from the land of their ancestors . |
| 9 | They might have been using the whole of the attendance allowance erm to pay for carers , outside of the care that we provided , erm or a member of the family might have given up work to look after another member of the family . |
| 10 | He had kept on and on about those keys , although she had been deaf to his insistence ; he had come several miles to catch her at home and seize a chance to rifle her bag for them ; if there had been any purpose to the meeting at the Old Mitre it might have been to get the keys . |
| 11 | ‘ If we had been at home Rachel might have been spending the day with us instead . ’ |
| 12 | WHEN Raymond Leppard , prone to roar ‘ no Max Bruch ! ’ at those whose Baroque style he regarded as over fulsome , withdrew from Tuesday 's Tunnell Trust concert , the shrewdest move , perhaps , might have been to change the programme . |
| 13 | Well , it was n't as gruesome as it might have been had the bodies been five weeks rather than five years old , but it had n't been a pretty sight by any means . |
| 14 | The effect of the order of Waite J. , had it not been immediately stayed by this court , might have been to require the health authority to put J. on a ventilator in an intensive care unit , and thereby possibly to deny the benefit of those limited resources to a child who was much more likely than J. to benefit from them . |
| 15 | Said reprovingly because George looked as if he might have been following the lesson . |
| 16 | Erm you had a statement of Barbara 's , if it was in there , it was planned so that you crew can work harder erm although you filled in the bonus question well , the there was a tend dangerous tendency for you be sucked in to go into the bonus and I think you did well to say yeah well we 'd better walk along to that so you held out which was nice because if I had if you had n't tackled that you might have been shown the door once you 'd gone through that . |
| 17 | Had Buksh taken the appropriate action on each occasion — a yellow card and pointing to the spot respectively — we might have been spared the subsequent skirmishing : |
| 18 | The suggestion was that his subordinates might have been running the illegal operation . |