Example sentences of "if [pron] might [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He grinned at me in the gloom , and introduced himself as if I might recognize the name . |
| 2 | Nicola was examining her bruise , her fingertips stroking the place and moving only in one direction , as if she might draw the pain down and away . |
| 3 | The girl gave a worried glance over her shoulder , as if she might find the dinner guests all crowded inside the room with them . |
| 4 | ‘ Mr Swinton has so much already , ’ Alexandra said , her voice almost steady , ‘ that he asked if you might have the basket for bringing me out here on Christmas night . ’ |
| 5 | They avoided our glances as if we might bestow the evil eye . |
| 6 | I asked if we might photograph the chest in that setting for publicity purposes . |
| 7 | George recognised his cue and took it up , ‘ We wondered if we might see the pictures and the tack . |
| 8 | Steve shrugged as if it might usher the whole evening away if he was lucky . |
| 9 | It looks as if it might cramp the teacher 's style . |
| 10 | She stared bleakly at the damask cloth she had traced her fingers over as if it might hold the answer to what she should do with the rest of her life after tonight . |
| 11 | The peseta 's devaluation on May 13th looked as if it might help the right-of-centre opposition People 's Party , but the party 's leader , Jose Maria Aznar , failed to exploit the opportunity and polls taken after the devaluation showed the ruling Socialists nosing ahead . |
| 12 | ‘ Eastern Europe ’ sounds as if it might include the unreforming Soviet Union . |
| 13 | ‘ We do n't have the details though — we do n't know if it might include the replacement of schools or whether it has to be directed at education in different ways . ’ |
| 14 | The man who 'd taken a photograph of the bus asked if he might photograph the old people also , and the bus-driver told him to wait a minute . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , she was both surprised and touched when , with an obvious effort , he said that he would be in London at the weekend and wondered if he might have the pleasure of taking her out to lunch . |
| 16 | Mr J Emslie asked if he might have the use of the hall for meetings in connection with the 1991 census . |
| 17 | For a moment Harry looked as if he might hit the other boy , but before Cora-Beth could intervene , he relaxed and smiled . |