Example sentences of "[prep] something [pron] might [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had the swoop and the lilt of something one might have heard blaring out of a Turkish café . |
| 2 | ‘ The death of the remand prisoner , ’ Fairham interjected , as if reminding Nicholson of something he might have forgotten . |
| 3 | You can use abstracts as an indication of something you might want to read , or you can just read and learn from the abstracts themselves . |
| 4 | It looked like something you might see in a photograph of black New Orleans in the thirties . |
| 5 | The flickering patterns of the light made her face seem insubstantial ; like something you might glimpse in a dream but which , when you came closer or held a clear light up to see it better , would fade or change back to its true form . |
| 6 | Or he may try to trade in that idea for something he might think would be almost as valuable , the withdrawal of all foreign troops from Germany . |
| 7 | He was thumbing through USA Today for the umpteenth time , looking for something he might have missed , when he heard her giggling . |
| 8 | If you are on edge , perhaps you are being pushed into something you might regret . |
| 9 | It suddenly seemed important to keep the conversation as close as possible to something you might have read in an old book . |