Example sentences of "might [verb] [adv] for a " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He felt that the forces that had brought him to this narrow corner of a Neapolitan street — the wish , on the one hand , to track down Elsie and now the fear , on the other , that this search would lead him to harm — these forces might hold him there , his foot on the edge of the pavement overhanging the choked and filthy gutter , in a kind of uneasy equilibrium and he might stay there for a long , long time . |
| 2 | If a noble was excluded from favour at court , his dependants might look elsewhere for a patron , and the noble 's following would thus be weakened . |
| 3 | Quite how to choose your destination is not clear : You might set out for a holiday in Virgo and end up in the Crab Nebula . |
| 4 | One might pay more for a private company because a pre-acquisition investigation could be more thorough . |
| 5 | The way things are , you might struggle on for a few months . |
| 6 | That would be one less thing for him to worry about with regards to his mother , for she would still be mistress of the house , at least until the war was over , which might go on for a year , perhaps two . |
| 7 | ‘ He seemed to think the meeting might go on for a while . ’ |
| 8 | Then I play with the baby and we might go out for a walk or go and see friends — that sort of thing . |
| 9 | You would think that one of us might scurry around for a new word instead of accepting linguistic hand-me-downs . |
| 10 | Do you think I might come in for a few minutes and talk to you about Matilda ? ’ |
| 11 | Aubrey says you might come home for a visit this summer . |
| 12 | Actually I might put down for a s . |
| 13 | ‘ I should love to see them sometime , ’ said Charles , ‘ but I wonder if I might sit down for a little ? |
| 14 | He had thought that he might slip in for a quick snack that would keep body and soul together before he went back to his room to brood about the situation that he had handled so badly . |