Example sentences of "we might [verb] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Benjamin and Elizabeth and their family belonged , in effect , to what we might choose to call the ‘ comfortable working class ’ ; they benefited from the general rise in Britain 's prosperity in Victorian times — cheaper food and clothing , better sanitation , faster transport , more substantial housing — but their money still had to be earned , had to be worked for . |
| 2 | There are a number of reasons why we might want to omit the subject . |
| 3 | To set the issue in its proper perspective , we might care to consider the way time is used in adult work settings . |
| 4 | In Task 44 Extract 1 , for example , we might need to know the political opinions , or temperament , or personal involvement of the person for whom we are writing a report of the demonstration ; and in Extract 2 , a friend with whom we correspond might be nine or ninety , someone we saw last week , or someone we have not seen for decades . |
| 5 | It is not just that beetles and mice are pests ( we might have said the same of ladybirds and the pursuit of wildfowl ) , but rather that the relative similarity of the larger mammals to ourselves materially affects our thinking and is reflected in our instinctive responses . |
| 6 | But for the quick thinking of the two officers — the first with his hunch about north Wales , the second with her code breaking — we might have lost the whole team . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ We thought we might have to spend the night down there and that 's when we started getting a bit worried , ’ he said . |
| 8 | We might have found the pair of scissors that killed Nicola Sharpe . |
| 9 | ‘ But after that show we might have deserved the points . ’ |
| 10 | She goes we might have won the prize yeah . |
| 11 | ‘ I think we might have got the bastard , ’ said Dexter , taking deep breaths to calm himself . |
| 12 | We might try to define the origin in terms of some other frame of reference . |
| 13 | If we are sceptical that an evidential base with intrinsic credibility and a isolatable and justifiable conception of rationality can be found , then we might try to tackle the same problems non-reductively , in which case anti-naturalist scruples seem out of place . |
| 14 | For example , in equation ( 3.19 ) we might wish to test the null hypothesis that and , simultaneously , that . |