Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] might [verb] " 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 | I told them I might stay with Kit and Teresa … ’ |
| 10 | If I had some time on my own with them I might squeeze something out , but I 'm inhibited in front of the neighbours . |
| 11 | Well yeah but I I I might go I 'll |
| 12 | Yeah I I might go and treat myself to some today . |
| 13 | Perhaps I I might amplify that a little . |
| 14 | I 'm looking to be pushing because I , I I might ask them to get speakers in etcetera . |
| 15 | So I mean if I I might have magnesium carbonate and I drop hydrochloric acid on |
| 16 | Did you never have someone you might have married ? |
| 17 | We 're nothing , of ourselves we might have thought we had but it was of no value whatsoever , but he took us , he says , now you 're something because you belong to me . |
| 18 | ‘ You mean to tell me , ’ Mrs Wilson interrupted , ‘ that you went round every secretarial agency in London asking about someone they might have employed fourteen years before , someone who most likely had changed her name , and you expected to succeed ? ’ |
| 19 | I mean in som In some ways in the word my it might have part of that symbol you write with a J in it . |
| 20 | The Word of God records the words of the Lord Jesus Christ in John chapter 16 verse 33 when He said ‘ These things I have spoken unto you , that IN ME YE MIGHT HAVE PEACE . ’ |
| 21 | I felt that there were two possible areas of theoretical physics that were fundamental and in which I might do research . |
| 22 | Which I might do when this er present year runs out . |
| 23 | In another way , which I might tell you of shortly , it has made me damnably unhappy . |
| 24 | Rendered all the worse by the high hopes I once had , the desire to wrest from Mother Nature some of her deepest secrets , however dark the passage down which I might tread . |
| 25 | Can I can I say that in my opinion that the county council 's current budgeting strategy which effectively imposes a two percent efficiency saving which I might add in figures come to something like one point five million erm is , is of concern but what is of greater concern is the further possibility of a four percent er reduction which is being sought in blocks of three percent and one percent next year for ninety four ninety five which is to the amount of two point eight million at the current prices will in my opinion decimate the present level of service provision in policing . |
| 26 | I knew that there was one place , and one place only — and there one person only — to which I might turn for help ! |
| 27 | I could n't up sticks and away , which I might have done otherwise — regretting it afterwards . |
| 28 | To which I might say that , rationalist or not , I had spent too many years in my capacity as church architect investigating the fossils of a dead faith not to have imbibed something of the old superstitions . |
| 29 | It had not been my direct responsibility to purchase it and I was operating in a field where everyone else — the companies from which I might buy , those from which we now bought , and the management of the division — was an expert . |
| 30 | ‘ A mahogany dining table will last a lifetime , not like a car or a three-piece suite which you might throw away after five or six years , ’ he added . |