Example sentences of "[pers pn] might at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I might at this moment be living in anguish with Peter Datchett . |
| 2 | The wife had then deserted the husband and was temporarily wrongfully away from home ; but she might at any time return . |
| 3 | So far from being , as you might at first glance suspect , a wanton display of Milton 's monstrous learning , it 's a piece of triumphant relevance . |
| 4 | We might at this stage , however , recall from Chapter 2 the processes outlined by the Chicago School and , in particular , by G. H. Mead . |
| 5 | The price of ten shillings for a flight was two days ' pay for my father , so our pleasure was to watch and munch on salmon and cucumber sandwiches , never ever thinking that we might at some time aspire to those heights . |
| 6 | It may be concluded , therefore , that the advantages which Categories 1 and 2 afford to the prosecution are by no means as great as they might at first sight appear to be . |
| 7 | This debate is important because it points up that ‘ the facts ’ are not necessarily as simple and straightforward as they might at first sight seem . |
| 8 | The light was spreading fast and if they were asleep in one of the rock shelters they might at any moment wake and stumble on Marian . |
| 9 | The stone buildings surrounding it seemed less solid in the moonlight , as if they might at any moment shimmer and disappear . |
| 10 | For the world of the established bourgeois was also considered to be basically insecure , a state of war in which they might at any moment become the casualties of competition , fraud or economic slump , though in practice the businessmen who were thus vulnerable probably formed only a minority of the middle classes , and the penalty of failure was rarely manual labour , let alone the workhouse . |
| 11 | It might at any moment be lifted away from me utterly and I would be left exposed . |
| 12 | Again , when the Irishman Scotus Eriugena , one of the two finest minds of the ninth century ( the other was Gottschalk , close student of Augustine 's works and initiator of the controversy on predestination ) , translated from Greek into Latin the Heavenly Hierarchy of Pseudo-Denis ( c .860 ) , he might at first sight have been engaged in something purely academic . |