Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] might [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now to me I might want to know that people use language to mean more than one thing . |
| 2 | If it 's true that you were so keen to meet me I might satisfy your curiosity completely by reversing my rule to only date brunettes — ’ |
| 3 | Without half a bottle of red wine inside me I might have slipped on the slimy breakwater , but I jump onto the stony beach and chase her along the shore . |
| 4 | ‘ Are you telling me I might get bounced ? ’ |
| 5 | I did not know whom I might meet there , and cramped as I as I did not fancy my chances at running away if it came to a straight chase on a hard surface . |
| 6 | Nothing human was to be seen there — no man to whom I might call . |
| 7 | I checked the engine number with Perkins ( whom I might add were extremely pleasant and helpful ) who later found it to be the 4236 , rated at 82 bhp . |
| 8 | Wilson was obviously embarrassed by my statement and sought to identify any particular honorands whom I might have in mind . |
| 9 | If he walks off and leaves me someone might see me left on my own ’ . ’ |
| 10 | I told them I might stay with Kit and Teresa … ’ |
| 11 | If I had some time on my own with them I might squeeze something out , but I 'm inhibited in front of the neighbours . |
| 12 | Well yeah but I I I might go I 'll |
| 13 | Yeah I I might go and treat myself to some today . |
| 14 | Perhaps I I might amplify that a little . |
| 15 | I 'm looking to be pushing because I , I I might ask them to get speakers in etcetera . |
| 16 | So I mean if I I might have magnesium carbonate and I drop hydrochloric acid on |
| 17 | I 'm hoping she might have said something to someone which might help me find her . ’ |
| 18 | Many other jobs get handed out simply because a minister happens to know someone who might fit the bill . |
| 19 | Zak came up to me with Donna and offered me a lift back to the city in their bus , and at that exact moment I saw not Bill Baudelaire himself but someone who might go among the owners , where Tommy could n't . |
| 20 | Someone who might harbour a grudge against the company ? ’ |
| 21 | So long as I was looking for someone who might want to murder Michael Banks , I was getting nowhere . |
| 22 | Zambia had no wish to be found out cold by someone who might discover what SHe was . |
| 23 | With Tracey apparently intent on limiting his own involvement , she longed to talk things over with someone who might offer more active help ; at the same time , she felt an almost superstitious reluctance to go through the story again in the kind of detail a confidante would need . |
| 24 | I did n't want to place myself in the hands of someone who might insist on more than I was prepared to give . |
| 25 | In other words , she is someone who might have difficulty with spelling as she grows , but could be helped now to become a competent speller . |
| 26 | The result is that instead of trying to recover the often indeterminable illocutionary force intended by the author for this or that character , the actor finds himself inventing someone who might have wished to express this or that speech act by means of the speeches assigned to him in the text . |
| 27 | " Shakespeare " denotes someone who might have had any number of different characteristics . |
| 28 | Except — someone who might have watched her — followed her … |
| 29 | He came out of it as someone who might have committed a slight indiscretion , no more , and a heterosexual one at that . |
| 30 | She had the air of a female terrorist ; someone who might take it into her head to shoot at any moment . |