Example sentences of "[pers pn] [that] [pron] might [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It occurred to me that we might have been equally misinformed about other things the Germans did . |
| 2 | As much of the sulphurous pungency of garlic is also eliminated through the skin , it occurred to me that it might succeed in gassing the squatters out ! |
| 3 | OK , I knew I was better than anyone in my school , but it never occurred to me that I might do it as a profession . ’ |
| 4 | She had told me that I might rely on their destruction , but the note which she left directing this had become deeply embedded among them . |
| 5 | It seems to me that I might have my hands busy during a fight , so I 've taught this one to answer to sounds , and to react to the pressure of my thighs . ’ |
| 6 | Because it suddenly occurs to me that I might have been left alone to get on with this assignment if my divisional head had n't beamed in on my activities and seen something she did n't like in my relationship with Rainbow . |
| 7 | It never occurred to me that I might become a poet — partly because there were no books in the damp little prefab where we lived . |
| 8 | I thought he might have had a place at the Youth , it seemed to me that he might have been a leader if he 'd had the encouragement . |
| 9 | Neil had told me that he might spend the daytime hours between tides over here on Seal Island . |
| 10 | It never occurred to me that he might turn out even worse , a vain , spineless , ignorant lout with no interest in anything but clothes and television and pop music , who would be rotting in gaol at this very minute if his family had n't come to his rescue . |
| 11 | I do n't want him , it worried me that he might come and bother your mother . |
| 12 | It never occurred to me that anyone might have thought they were prejudiced . ’ |
| 13 | It occurred to me that you might plan it as one great central shed with bays let off it on each side . |
| 14 | ‘ It just occurred to me that you might have preferred to shop in the Via Veneto . |
| 15 | Conservatives taunted them that they might find themselves , fugitives in Africa , ‘ drawing from under their arm a very fine plan of a constitution while they had not a foot of land to stand upon ’ , after having opened the doors to ‘ the revolutionary spirit which had destroyed France ’ . |
| 16 | fact it might be apposite this year to suggest to them that they might like to introduce one or other of the things that we were looking at in there . |
| 17 | How cast his shadow over the imaginations of their daughters before their squires beget upon them that they might breed a race less ignoble than their own ? |
| 18 | We read that the apostles in Jerusalem sent Peter and John down to them and ‘ when they arrived , they prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit , because the Holy Spirit had not yet come upon any of them ; they had simply been baptised into the name of the Lord Jesus . |
| 19 | When the apostles came down , they felt there was ‘ something more ’ for them and proceeded to lay hands on them that they might receive it . |
| 20 | Has it occurred to you that she might disturb or upset them ? |
| 21 | ‘ And it did n't occur to you that I might have been referring to you ? ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Did it occur to you that I might have made other arrangements ? ’ she said eventually . |
| 23 | ‘ It did n't occur to you that I might have a lot on my mind ? |
| 24 | Er but erm the fact is i if you 're a non-taxpayer , obviously we 've got to take a different view of the way you that you might invest money . |
| 25 | It occurred to you that you might say the Rosary every day . |
| 26 | He appeared to allay this concern during the present hearings by admitting to mistakes , specifically not following up on the vague information available to him that there might have been a covert operation and unquestioningly accepting the repeated reassurances of his superior , the then CIA director William J. Casey , that government officials were not involved in illicit activities . |
| 27 | On the way it had occurred to him that he might find the police at Adam 's . |
| 28 | It had not occurred to him that he might seem rather out of place in his present dress . |
| 29 | Martin Browne had suggested to him that he might like to revise certain scenes for this new production , but Eliot declined the opportunity — he did not want to tamper with the play , because he would have felt compelled to make further and extensive changes . |
| 30 | It never once occurred to him that he might die . |