Example sentences of "they might [verb] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The evaluators observed one course which was devoted to showing teachers from prospective Major Project schools a variety of worksheets , project books and software on which they might choose to spend some of their grant , and another in which nationally known figures ( Royston McHugh from the Inner London Education Authority ( ILEA ) and Ron Mitson from the Abraham Moss Centre ) sought to inspire a good attendance with the philosophy of a more broadly conceived RBL . |
| 2 | After watching them for a while I suggested that they might try to keep most numbers constant and change just one . |
| 3 | When this reminder of a real world outside the little room had withdrawn , he asked : ‘ Did you glean any idea of when they might like to use this — ah — device ? ’ |
| 4 | They might have to wait some time … . |
| 5 | No it 's all of it even the h and the w I think they might have lost some figures off of it at some time . |
| 6 | I told you that I loved him , that 's God 's truth , I love him and I tell you they might have made such a place just for him . ’ |
| 7 | Crown lands had been so much reduced in size that the most efficient management could not have increased their yield to the point at which they might have made any significant impact on royal finances . |
| 8 | It is a constant concern that they might have achieved much more if services had been better and that they may regress if services do n't improve . |
| 9 | You know , if they could n't go and be a brick-layer , but they could sit at home , and you know , stick stamps on envelopes , or whatever , earn some money , then they might have to do that because they have n't got this plan . |
| 10 | alright ? , the only thing is last week , Jean said that when the surveyor came last time they took all the carpets up so you might , they might have to do that |
| 11 | His letter to Mrs Thrale contained more detail , expressed with greater pungency , and it confirms the ‘ Dark Continent ’ feel of his experience : ‘ The Inhabitants , a very coarse tribe , ignorant of any language but earse [ sic ] , gathered so fast about us , that if we had not had Highlanders with us , they might have caused more alarm than pleasure . ’ |
| 12 | Yet what brought Edward to heel temporarily at least — was a baronial threat that they might have to find another king if he would not keep his coronation oath , which in their minds meant observing the Ordinances . |
| 13 | Whereas in actual fact if they come in very nicely and ask very nicely , they might have got more than they actually got here when they came in shouting and yelling . |
| 14 | They might have added that government 's encouragement of home ownership , already alluded to , had reinforced the need for credit . |
| 15 | It is often the case that the definition of administrative regions within countries tends to reflect certain historical and institutional processes which , although they might have produced some degree of spatial cohesion , do not necessarily accord with what one might view as appropriate for economic scrutiny . |
| 16 | ‘ After what happened tonight they might have had enough . ’ |
| 17 | If they had said no help would be forthcoming and no stock of food had been set aside and no extraordinary public works would be undertaken , they might have provided all three by stealth and so avoided a great nuisance . |
| 18 | They might have enjoyed each other . |