Example sentences of "might [vb infin] [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the next version arrives , you might want to install it in a separate subdirectory ( in case it has a hidden bug ) and keep the old version for a few months . |
| 2 | Agreeing with other councillors that someone might be able to find a use for such items , especially now that cast iron baths are now in fashion , the chairman wondered if someone might consider using it for horses . |
| 3 | If the three volumes had a thematic heart ( in fact their whole method defies centralisation ) one might like to see it in the dialogue of Legolas and Gimli , walking through Minas Tirith at III , 149 , and looking at the masonry . |
| 4 | I do not intend to give the precise wording of a regression session on these pages because some readers might try to use it in the wrong way . |
| 5 | From time to time she glanced suspiciously around as if afraid someone might try to grab it off her . |
| 6 | I might have felt it as a duty . |
| 7 | At home I might have fed it to the fish , but here I felt sorry for it and watched until it was time to move on . |
| 8 | But I might have to cancel it on what , what Deborah 's said . |
| 9 | I think she might have done it without regret . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I think she might have done it as a quick way of finding out how the business worked . |
| 11 | She might have done it in private — she is fun and without question , a little flirtatious — — but Diana had understood from the start that her public image had to be beyond reproach , and it always had been . |
| 12 | After all , she might have seen it on the ceptors and come out to help . |
| 13 | His boyish , open face with its look of disciplined idealism was vaguely familiar to Massingham , who suspected that he might have seen it in a police recruitment pamphlet , but decided in the interest of harmonious co-operation to give Underhill the benefit of the doubt . |
| 14 | And you might have to put it on manual . |
| 15 | I think may- , you know she thought maybe she might have kept it for an occasion |
| 16 | In this case it was to play the symphony as Shostakovich might have imagined it in his dreams . |
| 17 | Bristling with moonstones , the collar was primitive and barbaric ; the mastiff of a prince of medieval Persia might have worn it for going out hawking in a miniature . |
| 18 | And it had on painted hose of black and white , so cunningly painted that no man who saw them would have thought but that they were grieves and cuishes , unless he had laid his hand upon them ; and they put on it a surcoat of green sendal , having his arms blazoned thereon , and a helmet of parchment , which was cunningly painted that every one might have believed it to be iron ; and his shield was hung round his neck , and they placed the sword Tizona in his hand , and they raised his arm , and fastened it up so subtilly that it was a marvel to see how upright he held the sword . |
| 19 | Aliens might have placed it in her , it might have burst out of her body rending her — it had done so . |
| 20 | And Tristram might have sent it to Beatrix when he realized he was dying . |
| 21 | If you half-closed your eyes and looked at it you might have likened it to a string of coloured beads . |
| 22 | You might have put it on the word processor and she could print off |
| 23 | I might have put it in the the bin . |
| 24 | Twenty years ago , with your wits about you , you might have bought it for £5 or less . |
| 25 | He might have brought it with him but more likely it was already there with the other tools in the garage . ’ |
| 26 | Fry felt that he might have left it for good after his latest week of unemployment . |
| 27 | I said you might have left it in the car . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've lost my lighter and I thought I might have left it in the car the other day . |
| 29 | ‘ It will be a bit of a wrench , but the England team manager 's job is the top one in the business and if I had n't accepted it , I might have regretted it in later life . ’ |
| 30 | Milan can be circumspect about visiting conductors , but on this occasion even the orchestra was stamping its approval for Lorin Maazel , a phenomenon I was told the Scala had not witnessed for over two decades ( you would have thought they might have managed it in the recent past for Muti , watching with no evident rancour from the box : but apparently not ) . |