Example sentences of "might [be] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was in danger of losing her beloved Mrs Howard , who might be setting up with a brother-in-law in a public house , and I wrote : |
| 2 | For instance , although close relationships are usually protective , they can sometimes interfere with an adaptive mode of defence such as denial , which a person might be setting up in response to a particularly threatening event . |
| 3 | ‘ I might be inching up on it , might n't I ? ’ |
| 4 | By chance one might be whistling up for you , |
| 5 | She closed her eyes as the memory rushed back vividly into her mind again , and a feeling of panic rose through her at the thought that a fierce spark of that madness might be living on within her as she approached the middle of her life . |
| 6 | Times was hard , and he had the advantage over the insurance company of knowing that his profits might be tapering off in the near future , and he thinks , ah , I 'll get , er , I 'll take out a Permanent Health Insurance , based on my present income to protect seventy-five , because I know in about three or four years time , my income would have gone down to about sixty per cent of what it is , so . |
| 7 | They must be independent , not mention in the will you ca n't have a beneficiary who 's a witness , you ca n't have a husband or wife of a beneficiary as a witness either because not I 'm told very first clause there are n't , to get a duplicate made bungalow or something like that he might be missing out on the bungalow and the was The course leader at the time told me the story that saw him and he would n't tell me who it was I want my ten percent commission . |
| 8 | ‘ But do n't you feel you might be missing out on things ? ’ |
| 9 | I HAVE recently become a vegetarian but am worried because I 'm told that I might be missing out on iron in my diet ? |
| 10 | He would have liked to reduce speed but he was worried about what might be coming up behind him . |
| 11 | Fears that the recovery might be running out of steam now seem to have been over done . |
| 12 | And that takes us to the question of what it is that might be going on behind the screen — a question which leads not only forward and to Ulysses and beyond , but backwards , into a reconsideration of Dubliners and The Portrait of the Artist . |
| 13 | She was going her own sweet way , totally unconcerned about what might be going on in her wake . |
| 14 | But you know having said that they are there for a reason and the reason they are there for is is if the group did n't have somebody to pull them back down again then they 'd might be going off in all different directions doing all these wonderful things and ending up nowhere because you have n't had somebody who pulls them back and says well hold on a minute . |
| 15 | I think I might be going in for it . |
| 16 | So it erm he 's thinking , I do n't know , ah he wo probably wo n't like it but erm it wo n't affect me , it 'll affect Chris erm he might be going down to down to Leeds . |
| 17 | What about might be going out with his mum or something , or going to his gran 's . |
| 18 | But yesterday , on his 91st birthday , Trafford , whose wife died in sheltered accommodation four years ago , told a community nursing conference in London that , though a Tory voter all his life who thought most of what Mrs Thatcher was doing was good , he saw a danger that old people might be heading back towards the workhouse if the Government went ahead with NHS cuts and changes in community care . |