Example sentences of "might make [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Fearing that the outburst might make their predicament worse , the sober team-mate recoils with fear and says ‘ Calm doon wee man .
2 They might make their own bridge over a very small stream or ditch and find out what will float underneath .
3 Later , when her son was finished with his learning , she and he might make their way to Corporation Park , where they could stroll through the gardens and enjoy the sunshine of a beautiful July afternoon .
4 Furthermore , the use of powerful and wealthy nobles and kings as missionizers had led to proprietary churches and monasteries , that is to churches which were built and financed or " owned " by laymen who might make their own appointments .
5 Well if he 's coughing as well and he might make himself sick .
6 ‘ It might make 'im better . ’
7 She says if it does n't make me better , it might make somebody else 's mum better .
8 The son had no right to complain for the father might make what distribution of his property he liked ; and the son 's abstaining from doing what he had no right to do can be no consideration .
9 Perhaps that was what she wanted : a holiday abroad might make her eyes look at him and not beyond him .
10 She must never ever do anything that might make them fight .
11 ‘ The only thing that might make them move after three years here is Italy .
12 The curia was worried by talk of modernization — especially perhaps by the thought that 2,500 bishops in Rome might make them change their procedures in unwelcome ways .
13 There is a variety of decisions which might be made and different people who might make them .
14 That it might make them think other than we wish them to think ?
15 Do choose bottles that have no indentations inside that might make them difficult to clean thoroughly .
16 Yet others may lack both religious belief and any experience that might make them dubious of their secularism .
17 It MIGHT make them tired at the end of the season — but the confidence they would gain would more than compensate .
18 you know I , I think , I think usually what I say about questionnaires is towards the business of , you know , kind of writing them in people 's own words that , that sort of fit in with ordinary language okay putting them in a sensible order advising people to do scale type things with five or seven points or something which you 've got a lot of already so a lot of the comments that I normally make on people 's questionnaires er you can take as read as it were erm so I think erm you know just really one or two minor things about layout like , you know , you know sort of space and , and moving things around a wee bit , it might make them easier to read but again as I say that 's a you know relatively minor erm problem .
19 I mean it might make them er think , ooh I 'd like that myself !
20 ‘ If he 's a good boy I might make him Chairman of the board of Ferguson Foods !
21 The patient has to undress slowly and methodically , as there is a temptation to go too quickly , which might make him lose his balance and increase his spasticity .
22 He is likely to be easily distracted by the sights and sounds around him , and this might make him stray into the road or trip and fall .
23 Concerned , however , that these words might make him seem too frivolous , in the simple delight he obviously took in playing with his cat , he checks himself with the criticism that ‘ verily it may well be called an idle man 's pastime ’ .
24 ‘ He 's a good wrestler , a flier , a skier — all the things that might make him an attraction to the Duchess of York .
25 Albert took off his glasses and rubbed them on his handkerchief and put them back on , as if clean spectacles might make him think better .
26 His chronic bronchitis was also noted as this might make him unfit for anaesthetic or at risk of a post-operative chest infection as well as exacerbating his present problems .
27 ‘ You 're quite certain you said nothing that might make him suspect ? ’
28 The threat just might make him see sense .
29 ‘ It might make him accept a cut in his fee — out of sheer good will and concern for the Hochhauser Season . ’
30 This enforced separation might make him feel her loss .
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