Example sentences of "might have been on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shot that came back off Shilton 's bar in the last minute in Chorzow — a couple of inches lower , and England might have been on their way out of the World Cup — was a symbolic warning . |
| 2 | ‘ I might have been on the train that hit him ! |
| 3 | The Ministry did tell us not to waste effort growing flowers , but somehow one always felt they were not quite as right as they might have been on that one . |
| 4 | In normal times , I might have been on the next flight out and by morning Miss Schlegel — a schoolgirl , yes , but what a schoolgirl , probably tanned , certainly firm and bouncy , and unquestionably an amateur theologian of weird and savage genius — would have found herself thickly slathered in Noxzema Regular Protective Shave Formula and roped to a groyne . |
| 5 | It might have been on the table , obscured by this banner . |
| 6 | People who six months ago might have been on £25,000 a year are now prepared to accept considerably less . |
| 7 | People who six months ago might have been on £25,000 a year are now prepared to accept considerably less . |
| 8 | It might have been on the Saturday . |
| 9 | It had not occurred to her that the snooping might have been on a more professional level . |
| 10 | His eye might have been on an altogether different target |
| 11 | For a start , most dealers were young and ignorant characters who before drifting into their present positions might have been on the dole , or at University , or in menial office jobs , at which time they probably did n't even know what stocks and shares were . |
| 12 | Bernard , harder on his own son than he might have been on any other twenty-three-year-old in the company was not keen , telling him he had no business experience . |
| 13 | She thought she knew what might have been on his mind , because he 'd been writing a letter in the Lounge . |
| 14 | But Travis was shaking his head , and insisting that he had not been as enthusiastic as he might have been on Saturday . |
| 15 | Yes , if you can , if you can recognise it , or if you 've got , or if , several members of erm , several students we had when I was on grocery at Camden , we had to , I think it was twenty eight on Saturday afternoon , they might have been on checkouts , well I mean , they 're still scheduled to my , I 'm saying out of that about four of them er , are still working at Camden full-time . |
| 16 | That 's why you might have been on it you see . |