Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [pers pn] might [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er and of course if you 're in one group , you might think that something 's trivial and you might denigrate another a group for talking about those things , when in fact that group sees it as an important talk about it might see the thing that the other group hold dear to talk about as something trivial , and to denigrate . |
| 2 | Loyal and moderate as the noble constitutionalists seemed , any concessions to them might open the way to federalism , separatism and even more dangerous tendencies . |
| 3 | Erm but one , one one , I mean cl clearly the policy which was pursued was one of inequality and there was a rich peasant economy and either you say well yes there is , there is an economic imperative for that and that 's the explanation or you say well there might have been a political factor involved in this that there was a recognition that progress was going to come through class conflict and therefore if you are actually promoting the kind of you might realize it was happening and you might be more prepared |
| 4 | I 've only been in your bed with you once and then you were as jumpy as a cat thinking that sister of yours might come back unexpectedly . |
| 5 | Though she had been quite a successful model herself Arlene had never reached those giddy heights — the thought that now a pupil and protégé of hers might achieve it made her prickle with excitement . |
| 6 | I vividly remember , although I was in a thoroughly sleepy condition , telling him that in my view the only proper justification for an enquiry about Mr Profumo 's personal life depended on the possibility that some act of his might have compromised security , because he obviously had information which was secret . |
| 7 | More groups like ours might get going to let disabled people have more say about what they want to do . ’ |
| 8 | For the devout Christian , there has been no need to reconcile fact and faith , history and theology , simply because he has never had any reason to believe that a distinction between them might exist . |
| 9 | But they 're so long winded erm you know , you you might sort of you might win at the end of the day , but the blues party will have stopped six months ago . |
| 10 | James III 's idea of soldiering abroad , for example , to win renown and territory in Brittany and the county to the south , Saintonge , and in Guelders , was blocked by resistance at home ; in 1473 parliament tartly pointed out that if renown was what he was after , what he should be doing was ‘ to travel through his realm and put such justice and policy in his own realm that the brute and the fame of him might pass in other countries ’ . |
| 11 | Why , do you think she wanted to make a point of she might have at work for |
| 12 | And yet the treatment of his characters is not exactly what that prefatory article of his might have led one to expect . |
| 13 | But at least she would be treading in his footsteps , and somewhere along the way a clearer picture of him might emerge . |
| 14 | From this point on he might have been in Oz for all he knew . |
| 15 | Perhaps he thought powerful attacks on her might produce the result he longed for . |
| 16 | To provide a university education for her might mark her out as a favoured pupil . |
| 17 | The bond between them might help to heal old family conflicts . |
| 18 | Either way , it would damage the walls , and Astorre and Pesaro between them might manage to scale them . |
| 19 | BERGHAUS , meaning ‘ mountain hut ’ , does not originate in the Alps as you might think . |
| 20 | A working title for it might have been ‘ How I Got my Way , and Was Proved Right in Everything I Did ’ . |
| 21 | Something might be true although at the same time harmful and dangerous in the highest degree ; indeed it could pertain to the fundamental nature of existence that a complete knowledge of it might destroy one — so that the strength of a spirit could be measured by how much ‘ truth ’ it could take , more clearly , to what degree it needed it attenuated , veiled , sweetened , blunted and falsified . |
| 22 | The rest of us might put the same thing in much more simple terms by voicing that popular complaint , ‘ When you 've eaten a Chinese meal you feel hungry again in a couple of hours . ’ |
| 23 | Oh and she did n't take no bloody notice of me might have been |
| 24 | But we were not moved to write about them , possibly because they were so very much themselves , any personal comment of ours might seem an intrusion . |
| 25 | Nobody knows , precisely enough to be of scientific or medical use , how much radiation was released into the air , how far it spread , and what the original doses received by people underneath it might have been . |
| 26 | But the revelation of the Big Man 's round features above us might have been the full moon appearing to a pack of wolves , for the bolder souls watching started to bay abuse in Danuese . |
| 27 | In the past , the Americans opposed the idea of a Palestinian state : there was not enough room , they said ; and , given independence , the people in it might break their promise to be nice to Israel . |
| 28 | A petition to them might bring assistance for a particular project , but their schools received little attention : salaries were simply noted in the accounts and no one stopped to consider whether £10 which had been generous by the standards of earlier centuries might now be inadequate . |
| 29 | Secondly , the triangular relationship between the UK , the USA and the European Community will be examined in order to assess how civil aviation between them might develop in the near future . |
| 30 | I was hoping when they got that link road through they might connect up , but I do n't suppose it , sort of roads got ta put parking towards the long piece of |