Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [pron] might [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The table I write on , I say , exists , that is , I see and feel it ; and if I were out of my study I should say it existed , meaning thereby that if I was in my study I might perceive it . ’ |
| 2 | Yet it was as though that night , in the moonlight , in the silence , as though even the work , the months of steady labour , had only been an illusion , only the dream of work , the dream of progress , and I had not even begun and never would begin , though at different moments in my life I might have had the illusion that I had begun and even , perhaps , finished . |
| 3 | If I had had a car of my own I would have offered her a lift , however far out of my way it might have taken me . |
| 4 | I suggest that when you told my client he might get hurt you were in fact threatening him . |
| 5 | On the secret deal deferring payment for Rover until next March , Lord Young writes : ‘ I can offer three possibilities , in ascending order of risk that the deferment will be picked up by the commission , in which case they might require repayment of the notional interest saved . |
| 6 | In which case we might move into the shade and partake of some wine ? ’ |
| 7 | In which case we might wish that 50% of the footage is shot in IH or whatever ! |
| 8 | It 's also very configurable , and can reside on a PC in a dual OS system quite happily — in which case you might want to stick with old style filenames . |
| 9 | Six rows forming a curve over 60 stitches is rather abrupt , the same number of rows would suit 120 stitches equally well , in which case you might work 60 stitches at the centre , with the 30 stitches at each end being returned to working position in a series of three sets of ten stitches . |
| 10 | As we wish you all a very happy , healthy and prosperous new year , could we all consider into which category we might place ourselves . |
| 11 | Although from her upbringing it might have been thought that ‘ visiting the sick ’ would be a part of her daily life she had hardly ever — thanks to the Welfare State — had to perform this duty , and then only with her mother or father . |
| 12 | I feel if we had tried to turn their defence we might have had some luck . |
| 13 | Early on the authorities responsible for displacing the people in the Uranus area realized that if the inhabitants of a particular street got warning of the intention to do away with their homes they might try to organize protests or even resistance . |
| 14 | And perhaps with Linnet at her side she might pluck up courage , one of these days , to pay them a call . |
| 15 | It was just as well , she thought ruefully , that he was an easy , undemanding companion , and had it not been for the throbbing behind her eyes she might have considered the evening pleasant enough . |
| 16 | When very successful footballers , cricketers , boxers , golfers , even amateur rugby players like Bill Beaumont and Gareth Edwards , retired from their sport they might hope to cash in somehow . |
| 17 | From its appearance you might assume that it 's a portable . |
| 18 | Women mourn the loss of a breast — ‘ which at 50 has no function other than a psychological one ’ — unlike almost any other part of their body which might have to be removed for health reasons . |
| 19 | In contrast , if a married woman were unfaithful to her husband she might have to die for Izzat to be restored . |
| 20 | Every day she would go through each impression once more , would weep over it and console herself — at her leisure one might say . |
| 21 | regardless of the inconvenience to their customers who might have to travel further afield , away from their homes and communities for treatment . |
| 22 | We are waiting for a new quotation from Eurofighter for their part of the programme erm but in advance of receiving it I 'd not rather not speculate as to which impact it might have on the project . |
| 23 | Well I 'm not daunted I think , challenged I think is probably the word , but I think there is room in the market , I mean they have their Oxford English Dictionary say , which is one of their flagships you might say . |
| 24 | I even knew that if we talked about her past and all her life I might begin to like her , but I was thinking of a different countryside and different cattle and worrying about the oxen who ploughed the fields and turned the water wheels . |
| 25 | The car was so big that when she leaned back into her corner there might have been a cold room between them . |
| 26 | Even though customers might not receive the allocation of shares requested , once their money was effectively in their hands they might decide to shop around rather than return to Nationwide . |
| 27 | Cos if you walk under her ladder she might drop the water all over your head . |
| 28 | Of course , had the guilds and fraternities included a handling charge in their reckoning they might have attracted an income allowing them the freedom to purchase for themselves those ‘ extras ’ now being clamoured for . |
| 29 | got her papers she might see . |
| 30 | The problem is you never know which way you might wobble . |