Example sentences of "[prep] we might [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of us might go so far as to say that the Genesis account of creation is not literal history but myth in Lewis 's sense . |
| 2 | Any of us might torture a stranger , even a friend , she says , if we are told to . |
| 3 | Woosie aside , most of us might score closer to the 100 with which Bernard Darwin won the first official Club meeting in 1893 . |
| 4 | You would think that one of us might scurry around for a new word instead of accepting linguistic hand-me-downs . |
| 5 | Some of us might want to bid on it ! |
| 6 | But 28% do feel working mothers regard themselves as superior which suggest that some of us might have got carried away with out own importance . |
| 7 | Mr Nicholas Winterton , the Conservative MP for Macclesfield , a consistent Tory backbench critic of the reforms , said yesterday : ‘ I think the number of us might swell once the bill gets underway . ’ |
| 8 | Ahead of us might lie a future of delight and discovery , a sparkling fountain of new experiences . ’ |
| 9 | Some of us might live to see it . |
| 10 | ‘ Perhaps some of us might come down in great secrecy to visit you . ’ |
| 11 | The rest of us might put the same thing in much more simple terms by voicing that popular complaint , ‘ When you 've eaten a Chinese meal you feel hungry again in a couple of hours . ’ |
| 12 | Er of course as we know or we might , some of us might know from er Brit . |
| 13 | Not entirely ; to begin with we might take a pragmatic line in the light of new knowledge about the long-term effects of such treatment on a child 's subsequent development . |
| 14 | But the revelation of the Big Man 's round features above us might have been the full moon appearing to a pack of wolves , for the bolder souls watching started to bay abuse in Danuese . |
| 15 | God might have annexed colour sensations to the kind of light reaching our eyes in ; quite different way from that which he has done , so that the very same things ( in their real nature ) which are red to us might have been blue , and vice versa , or we might have experienced , quite different range of colours in the same physical situations . |
| 16 | The more chauvinistic among us might place the marker in the calendar for 4th August of the same year when Great Britain entered the war against the central powers , or two years later at dawn on the 1st July 1916 , when the opening of the Battle of the Somme destroyed the lives or the illusions of a generation of British youth . |
| 17 | Ronny replaces Swindon-striker Fjortoft for the game tonight — Ronny must have done well in the training sessions ( coach Olsen really put some value on how the players perform in training before the games ) and Fjortoft which has been even worse for Swindon than Deano for us might have a hard time to get the attacker place back ( Fjortoft 0 — Deano 3 — Cole 10 is n't it ? ) . |