Example sentences of "[noun pl] might take a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even the heyday of tomb-robbing was over ; his scavenging could n't be called by such a piratical name and the local labourers could not be inspired to sift the soil scrupulously when they could break it with a pickaxe so much faster , and the mounted overseers might take a crack at them with a rifle butt if they dawdled . |
| 2 | Casual passers-by might take a look . |
| 3 | In other words , three generations might take a family from hard toil through private education to gilt-edged respectability . |
| 4 | I thought perhaps one of the customers might take a message , but … ’ |
| 5 | According to the Observer of Feb. 2 , 1990 , IMF Managing Director Michel Camdessus suggested , in an IMF meeting on Dec. 18 , 1989 , a number of ways in which debtors might take a tougher stance in negotiations with the commercial banks . |
| 6 | Some such unfortunates ultimately abandoned the East Indiamen for a place in the pilot service in India , after they had acquired sufficient influence with important passengers to secure such an appointment , while others might take a place as an officer of one of the so-called country ships , which operated only in the East and did not return to Europe . |