Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] might [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which for all I knew might have no end |
| 2 | Supple entwinement through the living moss which for all that I knew might have no end , Image of an endless embrace |
| 3 | There was one person I thought might come across with a few facts , Mahoney 's girl , Connie Fraser . |
| 4 | I put it down , and I phoned the people I thought might have been the recipients of it , to make sure it was genuine , |
| 5 | I could send you a list of vacancies , and mark any I thought might suit Mrs Ross and which I could vouch for . |
| 6 | ‘ Now this is what I thought might suit your purposes , ’ he said . |
| 7 | As the days went by , I did start to try the newspapers and job centres again — anywhere in fact that I thought might find me either a job or a home . |
| 8 | I did n't ask you about out of date , I said might mislead a prospective purchaser that is the reason is n't it why you would update ? |
| 9 | You can either think about doing one that is very literature based which I supposed might end up being sort of a rewrite of a lot of the stuff you can read . |
| 10 | Any man who had to endure what you endured might have reacted in the same way ’ ( our emphasis ) . |
| 11 | But the moment passed , for there was something in her grasp of his legs that was so awkward , so inexperienced , and the pitch of her entreaties remained so anguished that he knew she was only doing what she imagined might persuade him to help her ; and a wave of self-loathing washed over him , that a woman like her could think of a man like him in such a light . |
| 12 | She waited , forcing back tears she thought might irritate him further , watching his implacable shoulders . |
| 13 | There was no tea break but Mr John and a woman , who she thought might have been a chaperone , would go into a little room at the end , where she fancied they had a nip or two . |
| 14 | The themes she thought might indicate such a fear were : |
| 15 | She kept a commonplace book unknown to all but Dimity , who sometimes pointed out a passage in her reading which she felt might appeal to her friend . |
| 16 | Despite the relief of a healthy baby and an uncomplicated birth , Eliza was still pitifully homesick for her mother , whom she feared might suffer ‘ one of her usual attacks ’ over the winter , and for her other children . |
| 17 | First of all , we 'd like to say we love reading your magazine , but we have a bit of a problem which we thought might worry other humans . |
| 18 | As one officer said to Levi : ‘ If we nicked everybody we thought might have done a long-firm , we 'd never finish our paperwork , the cases might never come to court , and if they did , they 'd never have the room to try them . ’ |
| 19 | It was the horrible misconception that we saw might arise ; the odious imputations on honour and purity that would follow … |
| 20 | Each of the streets through which we went might have led to it . |
| 21 | The slow-crawl music they produced might 've been linked with hardcore , but it was really ‘ the end of rock , the dying throes ’ . |
| 22 | The Americans were also worried by the British tendency to take too mild a view of Soviet intentions , an attitude which they feared might give rise to false hopes among the public in the West , and lessen support for the build-up of Nato . |
| 23 | Nithard does so , however , while the author of a curious single annal for 830 – 1 , tacked onto the Prior Metz Annals ( the last entry otherwise was for 805 ) makes Judith the central figure in the story , and explains the 830 rebellion in terms of her stepsons ' hostility to her and her " very goodlooking son Charles " who " they feared might succeed as heir in his father 's realm " . |
| 24 | Esther was treated with anti-coagulant drugs , and the doctors monitored her kidneys , which they feared might have been damaged as a complication of the toxaemia . |
| 25 | However , for one in five of the people in residential homes for a year or more , our respondents said that there were relatives who they felt might have visited more often . |
| 26 | After being rewarded for choosing A in the middle stage of training , the children were asked which of B and C they thought might bring reward . |
| 27 | Not all Ruth 's time with the other servants was disagreeable , but she quickly found that Millfield 's own staff had little time for the servants of visitors , especially anyone they thought might consider themselves superior . |
| 28 | Gradually , however , he realized that he could become a detective investigating his own past and that what he gleaned might have a bearing on the present . |
| 29 | Although Barraclough 's ( 1972 ) suggestion that as many as a fifth of the suicides in a series he studied might have been prevented by the wider use of lithium would be difficult to substantiate and is probably an overestimate , the fact that the lives of as many as 16 per cent of patients with manic-depressive illness may end in suicide ( Pitts and Winokur 1964 ) suggests that lithium is likely to have an important role in the prevention of suicide in some patients . |
| 30 | All of this it seemed might make the Prince less unacceptable to France and so would give the candidacy an air of reasonableness to the rest of Europe . |