Example sentences of "[pers pn] might [vb infin] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It sounds terrific , but I might pause to question the wisdom of such a move . |
| 2 | Yet I might ask to have the salt passed , or discourse of the evil weather , and so my brother , to my great chagrin , noticed nothing , but set out blithely to go hunting with his new friend , leaving me at home to sit by the hearth , and to feel silent anguish at what might ensue . |
| 3 | I might like to perform the tracing . ’ |
| 4 | She suggested I might like to write a letter to head office . |
| 5 | Have you any suggestions as to what I might try to overcome the problem ? |
| 6 | ‘ Because if you try to do anything so misguided I might have to give a Press interview to explain just why I got under your skin so badly ! ’ |
| 7 | Although I might have layered a lot of notes on one part it 's still basically , say , a D minor chord or whatever . |
| 8 | I might have made a mistake to turn down offers when they were there . |
| 9 | Given a set of circumstances — and of course more height — I might have completed a turn onto an adjacent runway , but from low down and with a suitable field ahead I should have treated the reduction as an engine failure , and made an early decision to land . |
| 10 | If I 'd done English , geography and history , I might have done a lot better , but they just did n't seem to bother about you if you were doing science — perhaps it was an old-fashioned school . |
| 11 | Looking back , there have been occasions when I might have had a bit more foresight , particularly when this chap rang me from Newcastle one day raving about this brilliant young footballer he wanted me to look after . |
| 12 | I might have had a word with him if I 'd caught him . |
| 13 | ‘ I might have had a chance if the fates had n't conspired against me , but my left leg 's still giving me some stick . |
| 14 | ‘ I might have had a hat-trick and I wanted that . |
| 15 | Yet it was as though that night , in the moonlight , in the silence , as though even the work , the months of steady labour , had only been an illusion , only the dream of work , the dream of progress , and I had not even begun and never would begin , though at different moments in my life I might have had the illusion that I had begun and even , perhaps , finished . |
| 16 | This accords with a remark Johnson made to Boswell as they drove towards Aberdeen : ‘ I might have taken the side of the savage equally , had anybody else taken the side of the shopkeeper . ’ |
| 17 | I think I might have caught a cold . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I might have to stretch a point for Rory Collins . ’ |
| 19 | I might have to cut the cleaners ' hours down a bit , ’ says Chris . |
| 20 | Thought I might have got a chance at Pat Weaver , but you 're too efficient for me , Mister Doyle . ’ |
| 21 | Still mazed with whatever the drug was she had taken , I might have got the truth out of her . |
| 22 | Of course , had Helmut not left for Zurich but stayed at Park Terrace , and had the situation between the three of us then become something of a tussle , I might have lacked the courage finally to pack up and return to Paris with Jean-Claude . |
| 23 | If it was definitely linked to her death I might have to break a promise — which I 'd hate doing because the repercussions for the crew could be very serious — but it 's too vague to go to Foucard and run risks with other people 's livelihoods . ’ |
| 24 | Maybe Dundee will be interested in players here , or I might have to break the club 's transfer record to get him . ’ |
| 25 | I might have left the discotheque and I 'd have never met that man . |
| 26 | Anyway , I got through this tricky interval , and even the sea co-operated for once , coming in just after the explosion and sweeping away any tell-tale tracks I might have left an hour or more before Diggs arrived from the village to inspect the scene . |
| 27 | A couple of weeks ago , I might have expected the Tories to scrape through to election victory with such a Budget . |
| 28 | ‘ I felt I might have passed the pair in front of me on the last lap but what was the point , I had no chance of winning and this is a tough circuit . ’ |
| 29 | Earlier , and none of them might have survived the ritual of the tunnel of terror … |
| 30 | The main problem remains Hillary Clinton , and what she might do to clobber the prices charged by drug companies in the USA , the world 's largest market . |