Example sentences of "[pron] might [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't want that cat in here , ’ Ma said , ‘ I might want to do all sorts of jobs and cat gets under my feet . |
| 2 | You know I might want to do some training which is n does n't necess |
| 3 | I think I might enjoy writing end-of-term reports for the stinkers in my class . |
| 4 | Yeah I thought I might have to put another stitch in that to keep that on |
| 5 | ‘ Did it occur to you that I might have made other arrangements ? ’ she said eventually . |
| 6 | I came here sweating thinking that I might have to do some work |
| 7 | I take it that I do n't like modern art and yet I can imagine that while being the same person that I am I might have liked modern art . |
| 8 | He said nothing for a few seconds , and I sensed that I might have unsettled this policeman . |
| 9 | And we 've not had I I must say that over the years I might have had two cases perhaps when there 's been a query with regard to that in terms of packing . |
| 10 | But I might have taken other examples . |
| 11 | days ten eleven twelve , th thirteen , twelve days I might have taken this year already . |
| 12 | Mr Lloyd Webber , in London to receive an Ivor Novello Award for his musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat , added : ‘ I might have to write another musical before I can think of doing this again . |
| 13 | If you go round and round any more I might have to prescribe some medicine for you . ’ |
| 14 | The bond between them might help to heal old family conflicts . |
| 15 | It sounded the sort of voice which might start offering gynaecological details if given half a chance . |
| 16 | Various thoughts on a particular problem therefore gave rise to a variety of images , which might appear to contradict each other , but which either simply revealed the complexity of the problem or displayed several ways of stating the same answer . |
| 17 | The North American economist , John Kenneth Galbraith , took a distinctly positive view , claiming that the crisis had shown both the revival of industrial technology and the reimposition of civic discipline as demonstrated by the pay pause , in the face of difficulties which might have led feebler nations to buckle under , or even lapse into military or other dictatorships . |
| 18 | It comes as something of a shock , therefore , to realize that there were other areas , such as South Asia , more developed in technology and the articulation between production and trade , and highly dynamic in mercantile organization , which might have possessed equal potential to have become the centre for an industrial revolution , if these factors were indeed the primary causative variables ( Perlin 1983 ) . |
| 19 | It was once thought that the Chardonnay vine was brought to Champagne from Cyprus by knights returning from the Crusades , which might have provided some sort of answer , but this theory has since been discredited . |
| 20 | Officials from all US exchanges have thwarted further derivatives industry regulation which might have entailed higher costs and lost business to overseas exchanges . |
| 21 | In the Garden , Miller had to give time to those who might call seeking particular plants or information on their culture . |
| 22 | In a strongly worded statement signed by six Cabinet Ministers , Palmer described drift-net fishing as ‘ abhorrent ’ , and offered the use of New Zealand aircraft and naval vessels to assist neighbouring Pacific states who might wish to take similar action . |
| 23 | There will be genealogists who will be fascinated to discover who their ancestors spoke with on the 15th of July 1993 or historical demographers who might wish to use these records to assess the role the telephone played in family communication ( Did the phone help to maintain family structure over extended distances ? ) |
| 24 | Meanwhile , the state family planning programmes continue to treat women as objects whose fertility needs to be controlled rather than as people who might wish to exercise more control over their lives . |
| 25 | There were still those in the skilled , supervisory , and managerial groups , who might have sought alternative employment and stood a better chance than the majority of finding it , who chose instead to take early retirement . |
| 26 | " Shakespeare " denotes someone who might have had any number of different characteristics . |
| 27 | Contemplating the others who might have shared this infinity of delight with him was like probing an open wound . |
| 28 | ‘ Can you think of anyone who might have paid large sums of money into your dad 's Swiss bank account in the last few months ? ’ |
| 29 | None who might have carried that wish to the length of killing her . |
| 30 | The building of the latter included the famous Talerddig cutting which , at the time , was the deepest cutting in the world and earned Davies recognition from his fellow civil engineers , who might have by-passed Welsh happenings in their field but for that . |