Example sentences of "it might come " in BNC.
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| 1 | Next time it might come down over the centre of a large city . ’ |
| 2 | I was afraid it might come out that we 'd got a cut as well . |
| 3 | ‘ I felt it might come close to something like this . |
| 4 | ‘ Perhaps , if I were to examine them again , it might come to me . ’ |
| 5 | Yet not only could such a rearrangement be brought about , with the will to do so , but it might come to be seen as greatly to the general advantage of the school . |
| 6 | Trouble was , Sidney decided to go back to get the sentry 's rifle , obviously thinking it might come in useful . |
| 7 | I 'll tell George it might come . ’ |
| 8 | Its abolition was recommended as long ago as 1967 but nothing has been done — one suspects a feeling that it might come in useful one day . |
| 9 | The OED suggests , without conviction , that it might come from words like Old English ( ge ) lingan , ‘ to happen ’ , giving then a basic meaning of ‘ happenstance , whatever turns up ’ . |
| 10 | It might come better from you-not official . |
| 11 | He prayed that hope was somewhere out there in the city tonight , and that it might come into his heart , and scour him of his doubts and confusions ; a light that would not only burn in him , but would spread throughout the Dominions , and illuminate the Imajica from one end to the other . |
| 12 | It might come as something of a surprise to learn that he is now considered to be an Englishman . |
| 13 | We are more or less aware of all this , even though it might come as a surprise to most viewers to discover how far news material is already being treated prior to transmission . |
| 14 | It might come in handy again some time . " |
| 15 | ‘ It might come to that , ’ Defries said . |
| 16 | In elaborating such proposals there is admittedly a strong temptation to indulge in political rationalism : they are by nature proposals which give an important role to action on the part of a ‘ socialist government ’ or the ‘ state ’ within which a socialist government is installed , yet it is often unclear what such a socialist government would look like , how it might come into being and from where it would draw its mass support . |
| 17 | You never know when it might come in useful . |
| 18 | ‘ It might come to that . |
| 19 | More probably it was the product of the average scientist 's well-known unwillingness to get rid of anything if he thought that it might come in useful at some time in the future . |
| 20 | We 've told them it might come to that ; the shop-stewards , anyway . |
| 21 | It might come back in six months , in might come back in six years . |
| 22 | So my reading of the evidence so far is that they did n't want a body lying around on the river bed , where it might come up sometime , or perhaps even be found by divers , but they wanted him carried under water well out to sea . " |
| 23 | ‘ I thought it might come in useful , ’ Rebecca agreed . |
| 24 | But he still needed them because he could n't believe his luck either , he had the feeling that it might come crashing down round him . |
| 25 | Erm , the kid 's got to figure out if it 's going to use that to project the other sentences then it might come across it 's got to , it 's got ta decompose that into structure . |
| 26 | It might come last on your list of necessities , but there is no need for it to look the least . |
| 27 | It might come as a surprise to find that the Kalkadoons would use two different words in these circumstances — a kili in fabric but a ndia in the ground . |
| 28 | The proposition that fax was invented by a Scot in the middle of the 19th century sounds rather as if it might come from the repertoire of E. L. Wisty , a companion piece to such wisdoms as " Did you know that Leonardo da Vinci invented the compact disc ? " |
| 29 | It might come to it . |
| 30 | We do n't actually want them gagged , do we , but er , it might come to that in the end might we ? |