Example sentences of "might [vb infin] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the next version arrives , you might want to install it in a separate subdirectory ( in case it has a hidden bug ) and keep the old version for a few months . |
| 2 | Toilet seats are propped up against the wall , in the unlikely event that someone might want to buy them in a country where hygiene is pathological . |
| 3 | Be here on time and do your work well and I might consider hiring you on a regular basis once the child is born . ’ |
| 4 | It could be that your owner might consider replacing you with a Basenji if you do n't quieten down , and your nose will be properly put out of joint . |
| 5 | She 's a partner in a firm of solicitors in the High Street — well , she thought you might like to join us for a family Christmas dinner . |
| 6 | If the three volumes had a thematic heart ( in fact their whole method defies centralisation ) one might like to see it in the dialogue of Legolas and Gimli , walking through Minas Tirith at III , 149 , and looking at the masonry . |
| 7 | THESE questions , about men who have played an innings of 300 or more , are moderately easy , and the reader might like to tackle them without a reference book , at least to begin with . |
| 8 | I do not intend to give the precise wording of a regression session on these pages because some readers might try to use it in the wrong way . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm suggesting , ’ she lied smoothly , ‘ that he may not wish to risk his career by fighting a duel , but instead might try to kill you during a battle . ’ |
| 10 | Had the batsman not ducked , the ball might have struck him in the solar plexus . |
| 11 | ‘ You might have heard me on the radio , ’ she said . |
| 12 | I might have felt it as a duty . |
| 13 | At home I might have fed it to the fish , but here I felt sorry for it and watched until it was time to move on . |
| 14 | ‘ I think she might have done it as a quick way of finding out how the business worked . |
| 15 | If , for example , old man Jordan had come into the kitchen at that moment , Wycliffe might have seen him in the mirror ; but what of it ? |
| 16 | After all , she might have seen it on the ceptors and come out to help . |
| 17 | His boyish , open face with its look of disciplined idealism was vaguely familiar to Massingham , who suspected that he might have seen it in a police recruitment pamphlet , but decided in the interest of harmonious co-operation to give Underhill the benefit of the doubt . |
| 18 | And I suppose we might have lost her in the long run , but not just yet . ’ |
| 19 | I think may- , you know she thought maybe she might have kept it for an occasion |
| 20 | The upshot is that Marx never even concerns himself with questions such as the relation between individual perceptions to objects or the texture of feelings , sensations and thoughts , which might have led him towards a theory of where individuality occurs . |
| 21 | In his brown canvas boots , faded blue trousers , checked shirt and frayed cap , one might have mistaken him for a man of no consequence instead of a senior member of local government . |
| 22 | She might then have sought and received public assistance or have pledged her husband 's credit with tradesmen : in which case the National Assistance Board might have summoned him before the magistrates , or the tradesmen might have sued him in the county court . |
| 23 | In fact , I would have hoped that an European interpretation might have presented us with a radically different perspective , something to argue about . |
| 24 | If you half-closed your eyes and looked at it you might have likened it to a string of coloured beads . |
| 25 | If I 'd told you about the entry earlier on it might have lulled you into a false sense of complacency . |
| 26 | Had it not been for the honey pigment of her skin , any one of her small circle of friends might have described her as a porcelain doll . |
| 27 | If he had chosen to , Thomas might have told her in no uncertain terms what was wrong . |
| 28 | ‘ Would n't have helped him much , ’ Dawson said , ‘ but it might have put me in a more relaxed frame of mind . ’ |
| 29 | You might have put it on the word processor and she could print off |
| 30 | I might have put it in the the bin . |