Example sentences of "we might [vb infin] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mother wept to see Father 's state , and proposed that we set out for Chiguana , the nearest town where we might expect to find a hospital , immediately . |
| 2 | We might expect to find a source of order and sense of confidence in the home , but for these particular people this was just not so . |
| 3 | There are a number of reasons why we might want to omit the subject . |
| 4 | To set the issue in its proper perspective , we might care to consider the way time is used in adult work settings . |
| 5 | ‘ We thought we might have to spend the night down there and that 's when we started getting a bit worried , ’ he said . |
| 6 | We might have found the pair of scissors that killed Nicola Sharpe . |
| 7 | ‘ But after that show we might have deserved the points . ’ |
| 8 | She goes we might have won the prize yeah . |
| 9 | to his brain , then they comes the next day , oh no that was it , they , then they , we left it , we left it , we left it , he kept saying we might have to make a decision , erm your dad 's leg deteriorated he 's got no circulation in his legs at all , we 've found a pulse in his left leg but we ca n't find one in his right , he said I think you 're gon na have to make the decision of amputation oh god , anyway comes Monday came off ventilator and of course he could n't talk |
| 10 | ‘ I thought we might have looked a bit stiff 'cos it was n't our usual type of audience . ’ |
| 11 | Erm I I am surprised well I do n't I 'm not surprised really they 're probably busy doing things but I thought we might have got a couple of vicars on this er this afternoon to talk about it . |
| 12 | Had the set been finished there , we might have got an album of more intensity but without commercial success — ‘ Exodus ’ was on the UK album charts for over a year . |
| 13 | ‘ I think we might have got the bastard , ’ said Dexter , taking deep breaths to calm himself . |
| 14 | If speaker D had gone on at some length about ‘ cobbles ’ or rough roads in general , or if the analysis only had part of this fragment , up to C 's it was rather rough , then we might have had no evidence of a divergence in speakers ' topics within the conversation . |
| 15 | ‘ Of course we might have to deduct a bit to replace my trolleys . ’ |
| 16 | We might try to define the origin in terms of some other frame of reference . |
| 17 | We might try to approach an answer to this question by first looking at some specific features that characterise the identifying references to different kinds of topics of discourse . |
| 18 | Similarly , we might claim to have a right to private property on account of having interests which crucially depend on private ownership . |