Example sentences of "might try " in BNC.
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| 1 | So young people , who may be unhappy for a number of reasons , might try sniffing to seek attention or to escape from their problems . |
| 2 | Or you might try brandy — it cures most fits . |
| 3 | The sawyers at the government mill at Kinlochrannoch were good friends of Cameron 's , and might try to bring out their neighbours , although they themselves were still felt to be incomers . |
| 4 | First , an objector might try to press the fashionable distaste for the first-person perspective and say that the fact that I can not apply the theory to myself shows nothing except that one should not approach the philosophy of mind via the first person . |
| 5 | Authorities have themselves acknowledged fears that ‘ counter-revolutionaries ’ , still at large despite a nationwide crackdown on dissent , might try to sabotage the anniversary . |
| 6 | Girls from orthodox Muslim and Sikh families feel this most strongly ; they also fear that through some misunderstanding their parents might try to withdraw them from school altogether , cutting off their lifeline to the outside world . |
| 7 | ‘ We are ready for any onslaught that the white authorities might try to launch against us , ’ Mr Rockman said after the first meeting in his home on Monday of the Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union . |
| 8 | You might try getting the games player a packet of Nintendo Breakfast Cereal from America . |
| 9 | However co-operative US administrations might try to be , Congress was always there to put narrow American interests first . |
| 10 | Instead of exhorting virtue , the government might try to do something that is in its power , about inflation . |
| 11 | He might try to do so again . |
| 12 | You might try a new recipe and find it awful . |
| 13 | Some overweight friends might feel that your success highlights their own failure to slim , so they might try to sabotage your progress . |
| 14 | The Turks might try to tax , or offer administrative salaries to Zuwaya who were willing to participate in government ; but Zuwaya always resisted these attempts to bring them into the reach of government . |
| 15 | In practice , he was likely to be related through descent and marriage to any parties to a dispute ; and as an elderly and respected man he might try to prevent the scandal of open quarrelling among close kinsmen . |
| 16 | Might try jumping … might pull more of the floor down . |
| 17 | She was terrified that one day he might try some moral blackmail and pretend he had come to love as well as respect her . |
| 18 | From time to time she glanced suspiciously around as if afraid someone might try to grab it off her . |
| 19 | Then when the social worker turned her attention back to the traffic , Gilly carefully spread the gum under the handle of the left-hand door as a sticky surprise for the next person who might try to open it . |
| 20 | Although he was a first offender and there was no suggestion he might try to escape , because of the nature of his offence the governor , Thomas Hayes , decided that Blake should be placed on the escape list . ’ |
| 21 | The idea that a runner can win more by not trying too hard is not likely to be well received in the hard-bitten commercial world of sports retailing , but if the winter miles are currently very wearisome and every race is a struggle to gain a few seconds , you might try leaving your watch off at a race or two and see if the Zarei approach puts a bit of the enjoyment back into running . |
| 22 | It had always , I think , been assumed that I might try to get to Oxford , and history ( by an equally mysterious process ) became the subject of my choice . |
| 23 | If the car is low to the ground , it is likely to be extremely difficult for the patient to get in and out , so you might try using a car in which you can raise and lower the suspension . |
| 24 | You might try drinking mineral water or fruit juice or one of the many varieties of herbal teas with their delicate and delicious flavours . |
| 25 | If aspects of CAB policy that the adviser questions arise during training , then it must also be part of training to show how advisers might try to influence CAB policy . |
| 26 | With this in mind you might try to point out the consequences ( effects ) of your children 's behaviour for themselves and for others . |
| 27 | Given the evidence that punishment which immediately precedes a forbidden act ( rarely possible for busy parents ) maximizes resistance to temptation and minimizes guilt , you might try not only to sanction misbehaviour promptly but ( where possible ) forestall your child 's action just as it gets under way . |
| 28 | In order to make effective requests and commands , you might try the following steps recommended by the Australian psychologist Alan Hudson : |
| 29 | In chapter 4 I suggested that you might try ignoring certain categories of unacceptable behaviour . |
| 30 | Again , our list is not intended to be exhaustive and you might try to suggest other potential reasons . |