Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun] [pers pn] might [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last November he refused to chair a conference on AIDS for fear it might cause panic . |
| 2 | 1.2 WHAT SORTS OF TOPICS YOU MIGHT CHOOSE |
| 3 | We have looked at some of the types of jobs involved in retailing , and at the different sorts of shops you might work in . |
| 4 | He rightly argues that the best way to find out what part of the brain does is to start out with very general questions about the sorts of thing it might do and then work through to more specific questions . |
| 5 | that this will happen , people will come to us occasionally and say , do you need money for what specific and I think , as a committee we must have a future , a list for the future of things we might want and also of ideas we have . |
| 6 | ‘ So , how about if I agree that I 'm unprincipled , absolutely despicable , and thoroughly reprehensible — or , indeed , any other term of abuse you might care to use ? |
| 7 | Maybe if I was really hard up with no career or opportunities in life I might feel differently . |
| 8 | When Mr Steen rang on Friday afternoon to say he was n't certain whether or not he was returning to London at the weekend , she had checked the petrol in the car in case he might want it . |
| 9 | He slapped her , swiftly and casually , his hand coming back to cover her mouth in case she might cry out . |
| 10 | The Russians are so bureaucratic that any gems of intelligence they might cull are lost in a mass of trivial dross . |
| 11 | With a bit of luck you might go down this time . |
| 12 | Well , if you put a , just hit it down a little bit , I got , probably wo n't get through , but if you hit it down a little bit to give it a bit of spin it might carry it through . |
| 13 | A police force is selecting new recruits with the help of videos showing them the kind of incidents they might have to tackle . |
| 14 | A police force is selecting new recruits with the help of videos showing them the kind of incidents they might have to tackle . |
| 15 | I did n't know what kind of play she might have been pulling . |
| 16 | But now her outfit , although loose and flowing , was slightly closer to the kind of garment you might expect in SW19 . |
| 17 | She could picture Pete reading the letter on the end of a hard bed covered with a scratchy red blanket , the kind of bed you might find in a hospital , or in the army . |
| 18 | It 's the kind of music you might have danced to in the 1600s . |
| 19 | The kind of tasks it might excel at are assembling keyboards and putting gearboxes or electric motors together . |
| 20 | ‘ I am not going to get into what kind of therapy she might find herself in , but clearly she would need all the help she could get from whatever source was available . |
| 21 | We might therefore wonder whether its appearance in Foucault , far from being the result of theoretical ineptitude , does not involve simulacra , or ghostly bad copies , similarly designed to undermine the claims of theoretical mastery , and to produce in his texts surface-effects of the kind of heterogeneity we might expect from someone who had contested the unifying function of ‘ the author ’ . |
| 22 | Everything is suddenly in flux ; there are the physical changes — starting periods , changing shape and size , wondering what kind of figure we might have — and there are the changes of the outside world towards us : one day we might walk down the street and feel like a little girl ; the next , almost overnight , it seems impossible to avoid the glances , remarks and acknowledgement that we are somehow , in our mother 's words , ‘ becoming a woman ’ . |
| 23 | Certainly they are incomplete in terms of the kind of information we might have elicited through observation , interview and questionnaire . |
| 24 | It 'll be the kind of place you might walk out of as brisk and easy as a knife cutting butter , or you might very well wander about for days , well , weeks even , without finding a proper door . |
| 25 | Chapter 2 aimed to let you learn some things about yourself and to discover what kind of area you might feel happiest and most fulfilled working in . |
| 26 | Here are some examples of the kind of objectives you might set yourself . |
| 27 | There 's no telling what kind of trouble you might get yourself into . |
| 28 | The kind of thing you might come out with after being hit with a baseball bat . ’ |
| 29 | However , there is an agonizing choice to make between at least two pairs of spectacles we might wear to take this critical look . |
| 30 | They issue an er they issue an annuity , which is erm er if you 're not sure what an annuity is , this is a temporary annuity , and they might say in the case of Miss they might say well what about a ten year annuity ? |