Example sentences of "[prep] it [pers pn] might " in BNC.
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| 1 | But perhaps , by telling him of it she might break through the shell of quiet self-sufficiency and recollection that had kept her at bay since his return from Student Cross . |
| 2 | Sorry , when I say in the main , some of it I might , I just want to clarify with the quality committee as to whether they agree or not . |
| 3 | But I was thinking if we you know , if I knew sort of what the sort of philosophy was behind it I might be able to incorporate that into , the office meetings and say we were having team briefings . |
| 4 | Went shopping or whatever , as I say , it , it , it , a couple of days or whatever you feel , if you , if you , if you want to get into it you might find you want to do them all |
| 5 | Well I think of evaluation as the process by which a person or a group of people have a fairly careful look at something they 're doing in order to try and decide whether it 's going well or badly , whether there are things in it they might wish to improve , and how valuable they think it is whether they might want to make changes in it in any way . |
| 6 | Could you put her blanket in the the seat just so that they do n't get little bits of cotton in it she might um breathe them in . |
| 7 | I 'm glad you said that cos if too many people said they would have gone on started business without it they might drop the scheme . |
| 8 | Without it they might have driven past the track and searched on fruitlessly . |
| 9 | If Ken had only put his mind to it he might have in the end come up with something even better . |
| 10 | There was never my my view and and one day I shall if I ever get round to it I might set this all out . |
| 11 | Peggy wanted to laugh , but she knew if she gave way to it it might turn to hysteria . |
| 12 | I think there was one question I 'll I 'll root it out for next time erm and I was really stunned on it I might be okay on it now . |
| 13 | You know they 're either set up now you 've given them an education and thrown them on the world squandering it now they 'll only squander it when they get their hands on it you might as well squander it on yourselves , let the kids squander it for you . |
| 14 | And it it it 's called the fog index but the thing that 's interesting about it is that I 've got , I 've got some interesting examples of fog indexes erm and you 'll get people like Churchill who sometimes made speeches and their fog index is quite small you 're going to use this you know example and they might have a fog , fog index that 's fine and what Anne and I are talking about with say something like the Telegraph or the Times or whatever , might have a fog index that people but this is because Churchill was very clear , very concise and going back to the original point about , or some of the original points about this , and I was mak raising these issues earlier this evening one of the great sadnesses that I have is that , is that when I first went into journalism the tabloids as we call them were incredibly well written beautifully styled , well researched and okay they might have been punchier and shorter and everything else , compared to the turning up the er the , the Times or whatever , but they were well written and you might have had , if you can put the fog index test , test on it you might have had a fog index of say six or seven compared to eleven on the Telegraph story , but it was still full of clarity like to read . |
| 15 | I know but if you 're going to get glue on it you might as well get it on this instead of on the lace one . |
| 16 | I think she imagined if she did n't think about it it might go away . |
| 17 | If you half-closed your eyes and looked at it you might have likened it to a string of coloured beads . |
| 18 | Well er , yeah well it is , but I think cos one , you 've got to look at , oh a bit of a design as well a while you 're at it you might as well just get one or two bits |