Example sentences of "might [vb infin] the same [noun] " in BNC.

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1 John Coffin , she felt sure , would not ; he might think the same things , but would not say them in that way .
2 You see , I kept blaming you for everything , but that was n't fair , a lot of it was my fault too , and I might make the same mistakes all over again , and I could n't bear that .
3 you know you might you might catch the same person twice
4 It might feel the same way again , ’ one diplomat pointed out .
5 Real owners might do the same thing but perhaps end up in a Relais & Chateaux hotel rather than the Place d'Italie .
6 By contrast , neither party has any desire to suggest that men might do the same thing .
7 He said he instantly dismissed Miss Dixon after she displayed a hostile attitude and claimed she might do the same thing again .
8 They might render the same exchange like this :
9 If the family allegiance to a particular sect changed then the whole local membership might follow the same path .
10 The labels parents attach to particular behaviour patterns often reflect this : thus one set of parents may see a grossly inactive baby as ‘ placid ’ and happily accept him as that , while another set might see the same child as irritatingly ‘ lazy ’ and accordingly try to force him to behave differently .
11 For example , although they might see the same people every night in the pub , that was not a planned attempt to see those people but an unplanned consequence of going to the pub .
12 It would seem that Harwood 's product might face the same difficulties .
13 Different records might call the same man husbandman and yeoman , but as he progressed , the latter description would be used with increasing consistency .
14 Ca n't we at least suppose that we might have the same experience on the Sun ? ’
15 Ca n't we at least suppose that we might have the same experience on the Sun ? ’
16 The first is a highly fortuitous and austere way : namely that the compound might have the same effect — the transfer of some particular kind of information — sufficiently often and sufficiently advantageously for there to be some selective advantage in its coming standardly to possess that significance : that is , for it to acquire the biological function of transmitting just that kind of information .
17 The immediate impulse was the prospect which arose in the 1830s that Canada might go the same way of rebellion as the American colonies .
18 And I guess my mother thought I might go the same way .
19 The rest of us might put the same thing in much more simple terms by voicing that popular complaint , ‘ When you 've eaten a Chinese meal you feel hungry again in a couple of hours . ’
20 I 've told her dad to sit because people might get the same thing .
21 It was left to another distinguished scientist , Sir Henry Tizard , to suggest that the British — puffing themselves up like the frog in Aesop 's fable — might suffer the same fate .
22 How could you love a child who , because of its strangeness and deformity , precluded you from having a child of your own because it might bear the same strangeness and deformity ?
23 However , we might find the same relationship among all sections of society by 2006 ; breaking unjust laws might become the hallmark of the less educated of all ages .
24 ‘ I might ask the same thing of you … ’
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