Example sentences of "but [pers pn] might [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | PRS 's bird inlays are legendary , but you might prefer the subtlety of my combination abalone/pearl ‘ moon ’ dots … |
| 2 | You say you 've got to pay tax before you get the grant of probate , but you might need the grant of probate before you can pay the tax . |
| 3 | Caroline smiled a little , ‘ But you might know the history of the Farnese family . ’ |
| 4 | They should mostly be complimentary , of course , but you might get the odd envious remark directed your way . |
| 5 | Meths stoves , like the popular Trangia , tend to work better in wind and can cope with cold , but you might find the meths a little difficult to light in extreme cold . |
| 6 | But you might find the cottage a bit draughty if it gets really rough . ’ |
| 7 | And then we come to the sixth race which is the eight forty five , well I 'm going to go for Angie Baby here in trap three , she 's erm a little bit of a kidder but she might have the legs of these , as long as something leads her , she 'll come and erm try and do them on the line , so it 's Angie Baby for me there , erm Ruby Blue in trap six is a danger . |
| 8 | I 'm sure , I , I , I , I 've a fatal inkling that she might decline , but there 's no harm in trying , but she might get the wrong idea about it , you know |
| 9 | of the , the national average and it 's not because erm they 're paying high wages to get the , the most able people , it 's because there are mechanisms , institutional mechanisms that keep wages high , there 's no market in the jobs for , th these are generalizations but I think they are fairly , fairly true erm becau there is no market for er for the jobs , for civil service jobs that appointments are made and it is much more important who you know than , than what , what you know and the old boy network , as it 's called , in this country is fairly important in the English Civil Service but a similar sort of network tends to be far more important in developing countries , something that is euphemistically called patronage erm but we might call the old boy network or er er jobs for the boys whatever , but erm |
| 10 | Now that the exchange rate is around the $1.40 to $1.45 mark there could be a case for going back but we might have the difficulty of seeming opportunistic . |
| 11 | But they might see the engine is made by Ford and go after them . |
| 12 | But he might hold the rest at the Earn until our fifteen hundred come up from the south . ’ |
| 13 | He might lose himself in the books sometimes , but he might find the Key there , too . |
| 14 | But he might get the wrong person for his needs , possibly due to vacation , sickness , or the respondent may misunderstand the question , indeed , may well be unaware that certain information actually exists . |
| 15 | No , sure she 'd no notion where to find him , but he might ring the house in an hour or so , to see if there were any messages . |
| 16 | That would probably do little to bring so-called advances on royalties back to a more sensible level , but it might give the publisher some added stability , and therefore a greater incentive to put sustained effort into an author 's career . |
| 17 | But it might influence the quantities of grapes or strawberries consumed , for instance . |
| 18 | The antihistamine would have little value , but it might slow the reaction marginally until her medical kit or the allergy kit arrived . |
| 19 | The second shot would do no damage , but it might persuade the Frenchmen that there was a group of enemy in front of them . |