Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] might [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Thank you , but perhaps I might cleanse the journey 's dust first ? ’ suggested Theda . |
| 2 | so I might have the three pound first week had erm |
| 3 | A former colleague , and the wife of a senior executive is coming to have lunch with me tomorrow and so I might raise the thing with her ! |
| 4 | The same as the floor so I might pick the green marble . |
| 5 | There were so many ways in which she could help , and by doing so she might mitigate the fears which crowded upon her when dusk fell . |
| 6 | So you might have the door to the kid 's bed underneath that wall . |
| 7 | So we might reorganise the parts like this : introduction biographical details ( including career as a London playwright ) qualities as a writer — powers of description — humour themes — education — church — the divided self — most of all as an artistic movement centrally concerned with the relationship between the self and others . |
| 8 | For example , in our manufacturing example , increasing exports reduces home sales and so we might use the criterion that exports should be as close as possible to their goal : 12 . |
| 9 | His younger sister remembered that suddenly he might leave the table with a wild mad look on his face and rush round the garden . |
| 10 | Personally , I find that hard to believe , but if it is truly the case then perhaps he might consider the following : |
| 11 | Perhaps he might use the ex-Prime Minister to give him a chuck on . |
| 12 | Finally you might consider the changing seasons when choosing your colour combinations . |
| 13 | Thus we might expect the instrument not to be sufficiently sensitive for these conditions and so not for a growth room . |
| 14 | Second , we might see something right about that theory of meaning or something wrong about it , and use this to determine our attitude to foundationalism in general ; thus we might avoid the need to consider all the different varieties one by one . |
| 15 | Thus we might propose the following broad arrangements within facets : |
| 16 | More generally we might ask the following : |
| 17 | He might not be quite the regal material the Tongan people were looking for , and as his wheezing old father — born in 1918 , still fit , but neither infallible nor immortal — tottered around the herbaceous borders , I fancied , or perhaps dreaded , that soon we might see the kingdom fall and a republic rise in its place , and the monarchy he represented fall victim to the spirit of the age , as ancient and outworn as Captain Cook 's old tortoise . |
| 18 | Well I mean if you er , if your chain was going too far astern you might pull the dredger astern too much so got ta keep your chain up the river , that 's what you go got to do all the time . |
| 19 | Concern has been expressed that the ordinary principles of criminal liability will draw into the net other non-violent demonstrators who may be considered to be assisting or encouraging the conduct in question and that unless such people leave the scene quickly they might face the serious charge of riot . |
| 20 | Gratefully he might echo the joyful cry of Trismegistus in The Golden Treatise : |
| 21 | But perhaps more fittingly it might commemorate the slaves that died to win it form the Earth . |
| 22 | I think , I think it was more he thought if he did n't do his clearing up he might get the sack , so |
| 23 | I think that even I might manage the latter , even though going through door X had never previously been rewarded . |
| 24 | Here you might quote the Clapton Strat , the McGuinn Rickenbacker and a few others ( argue about it amongst yourselves ) . |
| 25 | . And so he 'd holler down , he wanted a certain book of correspondence and invariably you might put the wrong one in . |
| 26 | Who knows , someday we might see the Minsterley and Shropshire-Montgomeryshire lines restored as light railways to solve Shrewbury 's commuter problems ! |
| 27 | Equally we might accept the temporal regress caused by supposing that for each moment in time there is a moment that precedes it , or the causal regress derived from the propositions that every event has a separate cause and that every cause is an event . |
| 28 | The starting point is a redefinition of the goal of discipline , and here we might heed the words of Allan Fromme : |
| 29 | In the same way the Chief Superintendent of Police may be concerned to define strategic goals for the police force as a whole while the individual police constable may need to exercise leadership in an operational situation and direct others in that situation. , Here we might use the term ‘ street-level ’ leadership . |
| 30 | Well it might take the taste a little bit . |