Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] might [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made it clear that this was his target when he said yesterday : ‘ Put it this way , if there was a chance of winning the championship and I did n't think I might just do it , then I would n't be normal , would I ? |
| 2 | Do you think I might just find anybody here who 'd like a really good snog ? |
| 3 | And then if she says something like well what do you think I might just say well I have n't really talked to you very much about the way that you feel about Dangerous so I do n't really know erm Dangerous , what a fucking stupid name ! |
| 4 | ‘ Do you think I might eventually get a taste for alcohol ? ’ |
| 5 | It is from the people who gather together to discuss these targets that ideas to meet them might well emerge . |
| 6 | I sucked a huge breath , ducked low , praying I might yet slip through beneath the bulk of the web which I knew must be draped across the passage in front of me . |
| 7 | And when Mrs Amabel Dallam remembered to pay her for all those wedding chemises she might just take a few shillings to a certain bazaar in Leeds where she 'd heard good dress-lengths were to be had at bargain prices and make herself a new dress for Christmas . |
| 8 | ‘ They say he might even challenge for the championship next year . ’ |
| 9 | That is the kind of exploit he might well claim after a drink or two , expecting his audience first to gasp , then to roar with laughter . |
| 10 | I mean she might suddenly find that she ca n't get the time off the hotel , or she changes her mind , I do n't know . |
| 11 | I reckoned I might still escape detection , however , if I ran on my toes in a sort of hearty limbering up exercise . |
| 12 | Over raters are usually rather immature and may not be able to take criticism so whatever approach you adopt you might well antagonize them . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'd thought we might safely have dinner here tonight . |
| 14 | But she did not like to admit the accidental , for if her birth was the effect of chance , so then was her escape ; the same arbitrary law that had produced her might well have blinded her at the most crucial moments of her life , and left her forever desiring , forever missing , never achieving , an eternal misfit . |
| 15 | The Dean in Chapter of Hereford Cathedral have yet to vote for the privatisation scheme although I do believe they might just vote for it . |
| 16 | I 'd thought he might suddenly take off and run , but he seemed glued to the bench . |
| 17 | On the one hand we have Prince Charles and Lady Di encouraging us to do voluntary work , telling us how noble it is and on the other hand we are told it might actually go against us because it takes up our valuable time when we should be looking for work . |
| 18 | The more experienced dealers guessed it might paradoxically refer to a disaster on the horizon , but kept their thoughts from clients . |
| 19 | Er I should think we might just have some products on the table and some leaflets . |
| 20 | five to ten minutes , I mean we might actually miss our tea and coffee so |
| 21 | if you question you might actually find that there 's some good thing or , or at least the people might find that there 's some good things in it so it 's then er it becomes more of a threat then to the capitalist world |
| 22 | The present text , his first novel , strikes me as amusing , irritating , and impressive in about equal degrees , and for all I know it might well have been composed rather than written ; certainly it seems to have been constructed in 64 chapters based on the hexagrams of the I Ching — it is subtitled A Novel of Changes , in case anyone should miss this — with frequent references to Marco Polo 's own writings , in Ronald Latham 's Penguin translation . |
| 23 | Having tried bran flakes you might well find that you like them just as much as ordinary cornflakes . |
| 24 | She reconsidered his offer of help and reluctantly decided she might just have to accept it . |
| 25 | Diane 37 broke her neck in a fall from a horse and it was feared she might never walk again . |
| 26 | The last thing she could afford to do was cry , because if she started she might never stop . |
| 27 | Nijaz and Sead Hukanovic had feared they might never see each other again after being parted in the savage purge of Bosnians callously dubbed ‘ ethnic cleansing ’ by the Serbs . |
| 28 | She stood quivering in his grasp , terrified he might somehow guess what she had been thinking . |
| 29 | Now having overcoming the shock of his surprise defection from the other side of the Pennines , it appears he might well have the same effect on United . |
| 30 | I expect my aunt meant well ; I guess it might just have been one of her spasmodic assumptions of authority in the family — out of character and dramatic as these assumptions usually were . |