Example sentences of "might [verb] been [v-ing] " in BNC.

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No	Sentence
1	He was looking at the ground , he seemed to be concentrating ; he might 've been trying to remember something .
2	She might 've been calculating something .
3	And there 's Master Tristram pretending he 's not listening to his father , who might 've been sitting in the Fowey stocks by now if it was n't for that same father 's efforts . "
4	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 .
5	She might have been drinking .
6	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 !
7	McMenemy might have been thinking of Steve Williams , another promising talent who 'd already won six England caps when he moved from Southampton to Arsenal in December l984 .
8	While waiting I tried to imagine what she might have been thinking .
9	They had taken the very unusual step of advertising in the local newspaper for anyone to come forward who knew of any ritual practices that might have been taking place in South Ronaldsay .
10	But D.W. Winnicott may be helpful in this context in suggesting what sort of process might have been taking place .
11	Three , he might have been taking the piss , provoking the crowd .
12	He might have been taking his temperature .
13	This way , everyone — including the other mums — has a chance to forget her bad behaviour , and you 'll break the habit of aggression that your child might have been getting into early .
14	‘ I might have been getting changed . ’
15	The problem for the students to some extent , is being compounded by the withdrawal of housing benefit , which means that they 're paying the full cost of rents in the private sector , whereas before they might have been getting ten , twelve even , more pounds a week refunded to them through the housing benefit scheme .
16	He might have been intending to go back to his family and appear utterly horrified while breaking the news of my death .
17	In repose Biff 's arm hung in mid-air ; he might have been recuperating in a wing of the Apothacarion with his limb in traction …
18	He might have been listening to Moses when he came down from the mountain .
19	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 .
20	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 .
21	I felt really good a few pounds lighter and with a tan , and I wanted to stay like that and surprise everyone when I got back , especially my boyfriend , who might have been wishing I was thinner .
22	Thus , they might have been defining ‘ territories ’ encompassing high moor , upland , valley land , and good land lower down , off the present moor itself .
23	When he looked at the picture of Tace he might have been looking into a mirror .
24	‘ They might have been embracing .
25	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 .
26	Your reviewer was rather presumptuous in assuming they might have been living together with ‘ kids from previous marriages ’ .
27	Two , he might have been reclaiming the flag for non-racists .
28	She might have been reading from a tombstone .
29	He might have been reading her mind .
30	The listings from early modern England show that up to 8 per cent of households of over-sixty-year-olds might have been receiving some economic support through lodgers .

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