Example sentences of "might have [been] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were some irreverent proposals to perform the ultimate experiment and try injecting material extracted from Ungar 's brain into his critics — a human trial that I suspect Ungar himself might have been rather in favour of ! |
| 2 | I just wonder whether it might have been somewhere like — ’ |
| 3 | He knows exactly what she means — he was brought up in a street that might have been just round the corner . |
| 4 | Eleanor Bell ( d.1827 ) has a scarlet velvet upholstered elm case which , with its cherub grip-plates , might have been equally at home in the 1720s were it not for the idiosyncratic decoration of the lid . |
| 5 | Wiping them might have been enough for most people — but not for somebody who was trying to do card tricks . ’ |
| 6 | Assuming the car had gone missing at the same ti me as Angela Morgan , it might have been there for over a week ; it had only been found that evening by a uniformed constable who was keeping his eyes open . |
| 7 | The prunes were good but with three extra stones in the juice Christopher wondered who might have been there before him . |
| 8 | That might have been so in this nation , but it was not the case throughout the empire . |
| 9 | He might have been more at home in some of the radical Protestant sects that began to appear in England and — later — in America during the seventeenth century . |
| 10 | Stupid Aries might have been more to the point , because the only person who seemed to have been burnt by her fire was herself . |
| 11 | Perhaps the Thunderbird 's one-sided peghead might have been more in keeping with Gibson 's bold step into the next century . |