Example sentences of "might [verb] [vb pp] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At one time she might have wanted to sit among the crowd , to escape from the prying eyes , but she would never have had the confidence to say so . |
| 2 | But there will be no compensation for those who might have wanted to deal during the suspension period . |
| 3 | The courts did not accept that the employer — employee relationship was not an equal one and that an employee might have continued to work in the face of danger for fear of losing his job . |
| 4 | ‘ Did you have any reason , Mr Quinn , to believe that a person or persons unknown might have attempted to interfere in the ransom exchange , to the effect of endangering the safety of Simon Cormack ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ It just occurred to me that you might have preferred to shop in the Via Veneto . |
| 6 | When I saw no one in the middle of the room , which had been full of music and smoke and pungent with the smell of hashish , I thought he might have forgotten to turn off the music before he went to sleep . |
| 7 | It is surely self-evident that whatever role they might have expected to perform in the family is likely to be changed , by being alienated from their roots . |
| 8 | With more first preference votes as a result of successful equalisation McNarry might have expected to stay in the count longer than Bradford and thus receive votes from the transfers of opponents . |