Example sentences of "[adv] they might [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Joked about how much they might pay . |
| 2 | Further opposition came from those who , no matter how much they might desire British association with their ambitions , saw a free trade area as a retrograde step , and feared its adverse effect upon the ultimate goal of political unity . |
| 3 | Almost all modern economists , however much they might resist such classification , are drawn to one of two camps . |
| 4 | I need to know that it 's necessary to remove all those trees I 've been told all sorts of things like they 're in pots and they 'll become pot bound they 're growing outwards they might fall down they might fracture mains they block off the er view of the church well I think they 're a nice asset in the city centre . |
| 5 | Get up here , do n't lay them down they might leak all over my books and I will be in trouble |
| 6 | Perhaps they might have developed into friends . |
| 7 | They 're not really so complicated as perhaps they might look in the first place . |
| 8 | Perhaps they might become friends , she thought doubtfully , or at least neighbours , passing the time of day if they met in the road . |
| 9 | Yes , just a hunch feeling , they just kept a clean sheet in the last game , and I thought perhaps they might keep another one , but erm and scramble a goal — it was very late was n't it ? |
| 10 | No need to be scared , only they might drop dead on top of you . ’ |
| 11 | He could countenance violence and killing , if only they might provide a way out of the taedium vitae which formed his spiritual landscape . |
| 12 | Well our fasteners in they might allow you to go to forty five days |
| 13 | No , I think maybe if the girls had been in they might have been a bit shier and felt you know , oh we have to act you know , the lads . |
| 14 | So they might design their own tattoo or they might design a fairground erm frontage , based on what they 've seen years ago |
| 15 | So they might call you Robin Bartholomew Walter , for example . |
| 16 | So they might know some different people . |
| 17 | if they go along they might get better as you go they might get worse , who kno , who knows ! |
| 18 | But in the past there was certainly considerable diversity in secondary schools at least about what subjects were compulsory for all pupils , and how soon they might give them up . |
| 19 | Thus they might involve users and ex-users of a variety of health and social services , together with their friends and supporters . |
| 20 | A CONVOY of black limousines conveyed the 31 Lebanese Muslim MPs in Saudi Arabia on an extra-parliamentary pilgrimage to Mecca yesterday afternoon , leaving their 31 Christian colleagues behind in Taif to ruminate on how best they might protect Christian political power in a new Lebanon . |
| 21 | He was a young man , probably no more than twenty ; his teeth were worn down to the stumps by rough ground corn , the tops so sliced through they might have been cut with a circular saw and the resulting surface polished with emery paper . |
| 22 | Air Tours , they said me it 's no use going somebody you do n't know , you maybe seen them through they might take your money and that 's it . |
| 23 | ‘ After what happened tonight they might have had enough . ’ |
| 24 | Concern has been expressed that the ordinary principles of criminal liability will draw into the net other non-violent demonstrators who may be considered to be assisting or encouraging the conduct in question and that unless such people leave the scene quickly they might face the serious charge of riot . |
| 25 | What 's more they might have done him an injury if he had n't pulled off his cassock pretty smartish and turned back into Matt , which calmed them down . |
| 26 | Trevor , a male friend , is trying to persuade Brenda that if she let a man take her home they might sleep together . |
| 27 | For those living in residential care , more than half did not know the difference between private and public homes ( p. 187 ) , whilst two-thirds of residents said they had had no choice as to which home they might enter . |
| 28 | Hopefully they might get some work in . |
| 29 | You know what I think about nuns , but for once they might do something useful . " |
| 30 | However , whenever they might have been emparked , it seems that the colour pattern had been established in Britain for a very long time indeed . |