Example sentences of "[pron] might [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I might stop on a day or two . ’ |
| 2 | For example , I might think of a rather jolly idea for a cover story . |
| 3 | I might go for a stroll to get up an appetite — the exercise 'll do me good . ’ |
| 4 | And yet I risked everything I had worked towards , all the hope of what I might do in a position of real power , for something that was obviously doomed to failure from the start . |
| 5 | ‘ I think I should earn more as the WBC title is recognised as a better class than the WBO but I might come to a 50-50 split . ’ |
| 6 | Er I might come for a little while . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm afraid I might behave in a rather cowardly fashion . |
| 8 | I had thought that I might ride in a carretta to the edge of the desert , and then walk away over the sand and into the sun . |
| 9 | Think I might put in a note actually . |
| 10 | I have been trekking in Nepal several times , and so I am acquainted with the conditions that I might encounter on a winter trip . |
| 11 | And then , you know you think well erm , this sort of the area we 're going , I might look for a person , you know , particular types of person . |
| 12 | I want to just go and have a look in them you see if you 've well anyway Well erm , I might get to a certain extent . |
| 13 | The particular contrast between , peaceful and violent action in which I am interested falls outside any simple dichotomy which might distinguish between a state of war and peace . |
| 14 | The apples were harvested in autumn by using long poles to shake the branches of the trees , and then reduced to pulp in a cider mill , which might vary from a small hand machine to a large mill driven by horsepower . |
| 15 | However , there are countervailing forces which might result in a lower volume of services . |
| 16 | Had Pardy , in a nutshell , just been carried away and thoughtless — which might result in a lesser charge — or had he set out to harm Harriet with such deadly results that this might even finish up as a trial for manslaughter ? |
| 17 | Although this his been the opposite of what was generally intended , there seems to be little sign of any reappraisal of rural planning controls which might result in a reversal of current trends . |
| 18 | A client is entitled to have his affairs treated with complete confidentiality ( save with his consent , or where the solicitor 's duty is overridden by his public duty to disclose matters tending to the commission of a crime or to disclose information in response to a sub poena or witness summons ) and the retained solicitor is under a duty to ensure that his co-partners and staff do nothing which might result in a breach of that rule . |
| 19 | Some South Yorkshire policemen have already been served with discipline papers — an early notification of any complaint which might lead to a disciplinary hearing — by West Midlands officers investigating handling of the disaster . |
| 20 | This is an opportunity to strengthen existing partnerships by securing board membership from a linked company , or to begin the process of negotiation which might lead to a productive partnership where none exists thus far . |
| 21 | Battle and a whole belt of Wealden parishes produced no response at all ; since the data were collected by the local parish clergy , the low level of response is hardly surprising , farmers as a rule having a dim view of requests for information which might lead to a rise in taxes or tithes . |
| 22 | The Divisional Court in that case distinguished between the obtaining of evidence for use in a trial , ‘ direct ’ material , which constituted ‘ testimony ’ under that Act and which would be gathered in response to a Letter of Request , and the obtaining of ‘ indirect ’ material , which might lead to a line of enquiry pointing to actual evidence ; the English courts would not assist a foreign court to obtain such ‘ indirect ’ material . |
| 23 | Ho responded immediately to this newspaper article by proposing various measures which might lead to a return to normality and to the hopeful provisions of the modus vivendi , not least an end to the press and radio incitements from both sides , but whether at this stage Ho and Blum were in the saddle or not , things were beginning to fall apart . |
| 24 | It also takes up a lot of memory for OPEN , remembering all states which might lead to a solution . |
| 25 | The most accessible data which might serve as a yardstick is that on applicants ' type of educational establishment . |
| 26 | Therefore Athens and Sparta must be played against each other , and their troops preferably used , not against each other ( which might end in a definite result ) , but against Macedon 's frontier enemies . |
| 27 | In the heady days immediately following the Keynesian revolution , many of Keynes 's followers began to express concern at the consequences which might flow from a commitment to full employment . |
| 28 | The timely award of an extension of time may avoid problems which might arise at a later stage when a contractor submits a claim for taking extraordinary measures to recover lost time owing to the late issue of an instruction , for example . |
| 29 | The letters said that the payments were made without prejudice to any right to recover them which might arise as a result of legal proceedings . |
| 30 | Regional policy has thus been amended in accordance with a perceived need to deal with the growing regional disparities which might arise as a consequence of the SEM . |