Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] [pers pn] might [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I vividly remember , although I was in a thoroughly sleepy condition , telling him that in my view the only proper justification for an enquiry about Mr Profumo 's personal life depended on the possibility that some act of his might have compromised security , because he obviously had information which was secret . |
| 2 | From this point on he might have been in Oz for all he knew . |
| 3 | But at least she would be treading in his footsteps , and somewhere along the way a clearer picture of him might emerge . |
| 4 | But we were not moved to write about them , possibly because they were so very much themselves , any personal comment of ours might seem an intrusion . |
| 5 | Secondly , the triangular relationship between the UK , the USA and the European Community will be examined in order to assess how civil aviation between them might develop in the near future . |
| 6 | A working title for it might have been ‘ How I Got my Way , and Was Proved Right in Everything I Did ’ . |
| 7 | Something might be true although at the same time harmful and dangerous in the highest degree ; indeed it could pertain to the fundamental nature of existence that a complete knowledge of it might destroy one — so that the strength of a spirit could be measured by how much ‘ truth ’ it could take , more clearly , to what degree it needed it attenuated , veiled , sweetened , blunted and falsified . |
| 8 | Perhaps he thought powerful attacks on her might produce the result he longed for . |
| 9 | The same came for a witness , to bear witness of the Light , that all men through him might believe . |
| 10 | Certainly her main reason for accepting the post had nothing to do with the actual work involved , but the hope that closer acquaintance with him might throw some light on Elise 's baffling death . |
| 11 | Oh and she did n't take no bloody notice of me might have been |
| 12 | More groups like ours might get going to let disabled people have more say about what they want to do . ’ |
| 13 | Er and of course if you 're in one group , you might think that something 's trivial and you might denigrate another a group for talking about those things , when in fact that group sees it as an important talk about it might see the thing that the other group hold dear to talk about as something trivial , and to denigrate . |
| 14 | Loyal and moderate as the noble constitutionalists seemed , any concessions to them might open the way to federalism , separatism and even more dangerous tendencies . |
| 15 | And for the chairman of the bank to be showing particular interest in him might alert people who , if the truth is ever to come to light , ought not to be alerted . " |
| 16 | And yet the treatment of his characters is not exactly what that prefatory article of his might have led one to expect . |
| 17 | But the revelation of the Big Man 's round features above us might have been the full moon appearing to a pack of wolves , for the bolder souls watching started to bay abuse in Danuese . |
| 18 | There is now a general agreement that to perceive a three-dimensional object requires that one starts out with a set of models in one 's head of the kinds of things that might exist , and of what a 2-D image of them might look like , and that one should then test the actual images on one 's retina against these models . |