Example sentences of "[vb base] [pers pn] might [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They say he might even challenge for the championship next year . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Over raters are usually rather immature and may not be able to take criticism so whatever approach you adopt you might well antagonize them . |
| 5 | I have also learnt much from the skills of others : without Chris Whitaker and Tess Lomax we might not have succeeded in improving the way we organise community care . |
| 6 | five to ten minutes , I mean we might actually miss our tea and coffee so |
| 7 | You never know she might n't get it . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | Instead of just getting twelve hours light twelve hours dark we get you know it might not get dark until eleven o'clock at night and it gets light at about four o'clock in the morning . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | No , I guess I might not want to spend my life teaching . |
| 12 | I suppose you might not care for them , in which case you might as well be miserable at home . |
| 13 | Well the A D would perhaps , no I suppose it might not have reached me . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ’ You mean they might not get us to Fraxilly ’ . |
| 16 | But I have to make one comment you might not care to hear : A woman does have a choice . |
| 17 | Anyway , and I mean , just a , I mean it might not happen it was just like |
| 18 | I mean he might occasionally want to move it a foot , but there would be no way he 'd be able to make the nice adjustments in that way . |
| 19 | I think I might just give it a solder over because it 's er a bit dry in that area . |
| 20 | I think I might I think I might just tell her actually . |
| 21 | Erm I du n no I think I might just go home and go out with Bonnie and Catherine and see Body of Evidence . |
| 22 | I do n't mind taking you on this silly tour , in fact , I think I might just enjoy it . ’ |
| 23 | I think I might just get a couple of nice hankies to go with them . |
| 24 | Oh I think I might just put some petrol in over there . |
| 25 | That 's all right then I think I might almost manage it with Marion . |
| 26 | yeah and like learning my Romeo and Ju I think I might actually sit down on Sunday and learn that cos I 'm gon na be at home but I , it 's quite good I 'll , I 'll see Foxy when I get back in the evening because parents have got ta come back for the parents ' meeting . |
| 27 | The notion that Pretty Polly was simply beaten by a better horse at the distance on the day was well down the list of possible explanations for her defeat , and George Lambton aired the widely held view that jockeyship had proved the decisive factor : Bachelor 's Button ‘ was a sterling good horse , especially at Ascot , but he was not a Persimmon , and if a real good jockey had been on Pretty Polly I think she might just have scrambled home . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I think you might just have something there , Barry . ’ |
| 29 | If you think you might possibly enjoy doing a particular exercise , but it is not something terribly exciting , do not write it down . |
| 30 | I mean one member of the committee has produced something which I rather think you might all like to have a look at it . |