Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] they might [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coach Dick Best ruefully remarked : ‘ I guess if they 'd been Gloucester boys half of them might have turned out ’ . |
| 2 | about , so I 'm sure some of them might want washing |
| 3 | Possibly because some of them might 've been councillors and knew the ways that sort of er things went on and how to get things done officially and above board . |
| 4 | They were not activists in the movement — some of them might have been from the Moss and come to watch the barney — but all were sent to the jail in Inveraray and then taken to Edinburgh for prosecution . |
| 5 | However , some of them might have had it in them to refrain from congratulating the Government on delivering the two worst recessions of the post-war years . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm almost sure they said Brittany , although some of them might have gone to Bordeaux . |
| 7 | It was necessary to show that at least some of them might have been first acquired through the will , in order to satisfy a desire , or to relieve a disagreeable sensation . |
| 8 | no , well , some of them might have been , do n't do squabble about that |
| 9 | When the mill was finished , a few of them might get work in it ( but the Flemyngs wanted girls for it because they would work more days ) . |
| 10 | Though some among them might like to , their commanders will probably settle for what they have . |
| 11 | Looking back at these different sets of theories ( outlined in sections 5.3.2 , 5.3.3 and 5.3.4 ) , consider how each of them might explain the restructuring of local government ( discussed in Chapter 4 and referred to at the start of section 5.3 ) which took place in the 1980s ? |
| 12 | They looked after each other , that was all , as each of them might have cared for a pet and been solicitous for its well-being . |
| 13 | Each of them might have engaged a separate average adjuster to advise him : had these not agreed , a dispute could have arisen between the parties which they might have submitted to arbitrationa somewhat unusual course in business of this kind . |
| 14 | Daisy had once said that the three of them might spend a holiday together next year in San Gimignano . |
| 15 | If there 's insufficient space for the army of fans , many of them might end up on the beaches , which the Italian police have expressly forbidden . |
| 16 | Not only are the proposals right in themselves , but many of them might win support at Maastricht . |
| 17 | Their habitations would be huts , which they would have to build themselves , in desert land away from the few cities ; their diet would be healthy and sustaining but it would be monotonous , and they would have to do without delicacies which many of them might have become used to in the Diaspora . |
| 18 | However , if hon. Members had been given more time to study these complicated regulations , more of them might have realised how adversely they affect some of their constituents and would have made it their business to be here . |
| 19 | Bank loans and , particularly , credit cards may account for a much greater volume of spending than the total debt outstanding on them might suggest . |
| 20 | The typical economic variables used in empirical studies , variables such as output , prices and interest rates , are such that it is usually possible to think of some reason why any one of them might exert an independent influence on another . |
| 21 | If one knight became separated from the rest of his team he might find five or six opponents all bearing down on him at once , and one of them might strike him in the back . |
| 22 | We snatched opportunities when we could , when my children were staying with friends or even , once , and extra dangerously , when they were asleep ( though the fear that one of them might wake put me off so I did n't try that again ) . |
| 23 | The heel of one of them might massage his arm or the rough texture of his cheek . |
| 24 | The hovering clerk at Hussey 's back was watching them narrowly every moment , as though one of them might elude him when he came to gather them up again . |
| 25 | Any one of them might have taken her away . |
| 26 | And if the pirates sleep on shore tonight , one of them might have an unpleasant surprise ! ’ |
| 27 | The police took the immediate neighbours into their confidence out of sheer necessity , hoping one of them might have seen or heard something significant the previous Tuesday ; but none had . |
| 28 | Any one of them might have been used for an unlawful occasion , but , if so , the most diligent inquiries failed to bring it to light . |
| 29 | If they live near to Mrs Richards 's villa , then one of them might have slipped down in the confusion to see what he could find in the surgery . ’ |
| 30 | One of them might dare to do something but if you used your head — you learn in time — you 'd be all right . |