Example sentences of "might [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He might behave more impulsively though I could be mistaken . |
| 2 | We fought for them to come to the Assembly , where they could speak their minds and meet the Africans they never meet , and together listen to the Almighty Who might know better even than they what is best for the country . |
| 3 | Upon this ground alone I venture to think that your Lordship 's House might consider very seriously whether you are justified in passing this Bill into Law … |
| 4 | If Norman Lamont keeps the job of Chancellor ( and he might do so only because of the shortlist of alternative candidates is embarrassingly short ) he may decide to delay the next cut in interest rates for long enough to convince the markets that he is serious about wanting to move sterling into narrow bands in the European exchange rate mechanism at its middle rate of Dm2.95 . |
| 5 | and while I started off thinking I might finish up better than I started |
| 6 | Tom looked as though he might stick around longer than all the girl graduates put together . |
| 7 | It is essential , though , that the correct frequency is used for your country , i.e. 27,35,40 or 72Mcs as applied to control of models and that , when the radio is operated , it is not within interference range of flying models or cars which might run dangerously amok if there is a clash of spot frequencies . |
| 8 | He joked to Philippa that he might react as badly as the sting victim on the TV show two weeks earlier . |
| 9 | Such is the experience of most of us when we go to bed late : we might sleep slightly later than usual but rarely long enough to compensate completely for the late night . |
| 10 | But Basil encouraged and even found some tiny portion of my painting which could be developed though he agreed that I might copy more easily than imagine and he gave me a mounted butterfly to draw . |
| 11 | May I als also ask her to bear in mind that none of us are in a great hurry to go through again the expense and the dislocation of the relocation of the British Library , and if this land is not made available to the Library , that might happen rather sooner than we wish . |
| 12 | I figured I might have rather less than ten seconds to beat the ascending Mamba to the balcony , from there I 'd take the door which leads to the vast western attics and unexplored spaces beyond . |
| 13 | So you can forget right now any ambitions you might have as far as Kirsty is concerned ! ’ |
| 14 | I think I might go out today after I 've had my bath . ’ |
| 15 | Some of us might go so far as to say that the Genesis account of creation is not literal history but myth in Lewis 's sense . |
| 16 | Having come so far in just 3 years , the suggestion is that success might come sooner rather than later . |
| 17 | All right , you might find everything that crawls in the yard an' they might get as far as downstairs here and there , but not up here . |