Example sentences of "[pers pn] might [vb infin] [art] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I might make a trip to . |
| 2 | He suggested that I might give a dinner to the leading newspaper editors and proprietors , when he could make some statement calculated to neutralise some of the undoubted venom that was then directed at him . |
| 3 | Or I might give the job to someone else . ’ |
| 4 | I doubt whether there will be much opportunity for sight-seeing here , but I might manage a trip to Sao Paulo or to Rio , or to the beach , which is about 60 miles away , I think . |
| 5 | A curate at St Luke 's , an older man from the West Indies , almost persuaded my parents to let me go out to Codrington College in the West Indies , but my headmaster was firm against this , expressing the hope that I might get a scholarship to an English university . |
| 6 | Loyal and moderate as the noble constitutionalists seemed , any concessions to them might open the way to federalism , separatism and even more dangerous tendencies . |
| 7 | We , however , are required to crouch in the heather , and so the attention is drawn through necessity to the things sharing that heather with you , in case any of them might take a fancy to your bottom and jump into your pants . |
| 8 | Did he , then , believe that she might present a threat to Rob 's engagement — to a girl he liked and approved of ? |
| 9 | She might hold the solution to the MacQuillan mystery . ’ |
| 10 | Wexford backed a little , fearing she might suit the action to the word . |
| 11 | And then she thought of how she might find an answer to some of her questions . |
| 12 | Perhaps without Miss Philimore 's continual criticism she might become an asset to the shop . |
| 13 | Respondents were therefore also asked : Are there any circumstances in which you might break a law to which you were very strongly opposed ? |
| 14 | So you might have the door to the kid 's bed underneath that wall . |
| 15 | If you 're in that situation , you might find a visit to useful . |
| 16 | If you listen very carefully to the background music , you might hear a clue to who has committed the crime , that 's if you know Morse code . |
| 17 | ‘ If we break the glass , we might draw the energy to ourselves . ’ |
| 18 | This will constitute what we might term the Prolegomena to the inquiry proper . |
| 19 | Suffice it to say that , after referring to the ‘ extraordinary , and perhaps unique , jurisdiction of the Visitors to the Inns of Court , ’ he found that the judges possessed a residual jurisdiction by which , in an exceptional case , they might remit a matter to an Inn and direct it to reconsider , with the Inns ' Council and the Bar Council , what ought to be the criteria by which they should judge the question before it determined the application afresh . |
| 20 | As far as they have been able to check , they believe that they are the only two Scottish CAs in partnership together in Australia , but we would be interested in hearing from anyone who thinks that they might have a claim to that title . |
| 21 | ‘ It might matter a lot to me in my job , ’ Horowitz informed him . |
| 22 | It may perhaps be objected that the distance may prevent the pupils of the Hospitals from attending the Lectures of the Veterinary Professor — I will first answer to that — that it would be dangerous for the progress of the Veterinary science to give them too free admission into the College — because it might give a disgust to the residing pupils from their application to the Veterinary Medicine and many of them would change their mind and apply themselves to the anatomy of the human body , thinking that it would be more honorable for them to cure the human species than Animals , this happened in France and the best Veterinary pupils are now Physicians and Surgeons to the human species — this prejudiced ideal would inculcate itself into the minds of young men , the more so as the Veterinary Science is still in its Infancy in this Country , and in an abject state , for this reason it would be equally dangerous to permit residing pupils to attend medical or anatomical lectures , of the human body , or to frequent Hospitals : Therefore a certain distance from the Town would be more useful than otherwise for the progress of the Veterinary Science . |
| 23 | She stared bleakly at the damask cloth she had traced her fingers over as if it might hold the answer to what she should do with the rest of her life after tonight . |
| 24 | I turned the light on , sorted through the keys for one that looked like it might match the door to the cellar . |
| 25 | In the short term , it might have serious effects for consumers ' budgets ; in the long term , it might encourage a switch to nuclear or solar power . |
| 26 | If he had no children , an emperor might adopt a son from another gens , or he might leave the throne to his sister 's son , who would of course bear the name of another family . |
| 27 | Jackie goes upstairs to phone her husband at work , so that he might make a trip to the shops before visiting hour . |
| 28 | This ritual restored to the mummy all his faculties so that he might enjoy the afterlife to the full . |
| 29 | He thought of a Socialist future for his half country , and conceived the hope of a job in which he might have the luck to be gripped by some stupendous ire of work , trying to avoid the spectacle of the people around him and in the wet street outside , which pointed out a fraternal indifference in the world that was the last perception he cared to harbor . |