Example sentences of "[num] [prep] they might [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Daisy had once said that the three of them might spend a holiday together next year in San Gimignano . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | The heel of one of them might massage his arm or the rough texture of his cheek . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Any one of them might have taken her away . |
| 8 | And if the pirates sleep on shore tonight , one of them might have an unpleasant surprise ! ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | One of them might dare to do something but if you used your head — you learn in time — you 'd be all right . |
| 13 | It probably wo n't get us very far , but you never know , one of them might come up with something . ’ |
| 14 | Mike Pumfrey had wondered whether the two of them might sit and talk things over in the two easy chairs stained , dusty , pre-war relics , that squatted capaciously in the far corner of the study . |
| 15 | The easy , informed arguments they had about the Kesselring case proved him wrong : as they talked , the two of them might have been no more than friendly colleagues . |