Example sentences of "might [vb infin] at the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they 're so long winded erm you know , you you might sort of you might win at the end of the day , but the blues party will have stopped six months ago . |
| 2 | And the sporting Volcane version , while hot , is not the scorcher one might expect at the top of so accomplished a line-up . |
| 3 | At intervals an enemy horseman might appear at the edge of the village to gaze through a spyglass at the Dutch positions , but no attacks followed such reconnaissances , no skirmishers wormed their way through the fields , and no cannon crashed shell or roundshot at the fragile Dutch lines . |
| 4 | We strode cautiously across as if the old hag might appear at the mouth of the cave , uttering curses and dire prophecies , yet everything remained silent . |
| 5 | This ought not to present any problems , although it is probably a good idea to emphasise the importance of the child 's language and to try to reduce any anxiety or embarrassment that adults might feel at the prospect of being recorded . |
| 6 | Highlights : the atmosphere of Twilight , the trio 's cohesion in House of Jade and de Wilde 's rapid virtuoso fingerwork on Four in One ( even though the ghost of Monk might shudder at the plethora of notes and the lack of significant spaces ) . |
| 7 | It might look at the purpose of the rule , and imply a term which , though not amending the rule , supplemented it sufficiently to change its emphasis — perhaps by holding that it was not meant to apply after the introduction of the cash-settled contracts . |
| 8 | In the modern world , for instance , one might look at the development of the personification of Britannia as an index of the growing imperialism of Britain ( fig. 20 ) . |
| 9 | In a topic on industrialisation one might look at the effect of industrialisation on a rural community without work . |
| 10 | The gravity of Jupiter crushes its hydrogen so much that pressures of this magnitude might occur at the centre of the planet , forming metallic hydrogen which undergoes fusion thereby generating heat within it . |
| 11 | He might sink at the end of his eighth length in the pool and have to drop to a walk during his second mile , and shoot a fair proportion of his pellets off the target altogether , but his ride … his ride would have the spectators reeling with wonder . |
| 12 | Her mind was preoccupied with what might happen at the end of her journey . |
| 13 | That argument was used for not giving heroin or an opiate intravenously because the patient might die at the end of the needle and the GP would be blamed . |
| 14 | That sounds like something that they might have at the end of term or something done by an adult working in a steelworks . |
| 15 | OK , they might smile at the end of the game and say : ‘ Oh , well done ! ’ |
| 16 | This system of learning is very different for some students and it might help at the beginning of the academic year to introduce them to it in a more measured way and look at points of pressure during the year and see if they can be released without lowering standards |
| 17 | You wo n't , you definitely wo n't ask at the end of the first not a hope in hell begin the second , cos you might ask at the end of the second appointment . |