Example sentences of "i might [vb infin] [verb] the " in BNC.
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1 | Told her I might decide to scrap the whole thing . |
2 | It sounds terrific , but I might pause to question the wisdom of such a move . |
3 | I might 've guessed the worst when the scrum fell apart for me like the Red Sea . |
4 | Yet I might ask to have the salt passed , or discourse of the evil weather , and so my brother , to my great chagrin , noticed nothing , but set out blithely to go hunting with his new friend , leaving me at home to sit by the hearth , and to feel silent anguish at what might ensue . |
5 | I might like to perform the tracing . ’ |
6 | Have you any suggestions as to what I might try to overcome the problem ? |
7 | But Lawson then covers his back : ‘ For a time I was concerned that I might have made the wrong choice as Chief Secretary — a view I suspect was shared by John Major himself . ’ |
8 | You and I might have done the same if we had been there , though we would have had none of the technical skill and detailed knowledge of Fleming . |
9 | ‘ I might have done the same myself , in her place . |
10 | ‘ By half term I might have finished the last one . |
11 | Yet it was as though that night , in the moonlight , in the silence , as though even the work , the months of steady labour , had only been an illusion , only the dream of work , the dream of progress , and I had not even begun and never would begin , though at different moments in my life I might have had the illusion that I had begun and even , perhaps , finished . |
12 | This accords with a remark Johnson made to Boswell as they drove towards Aberdeen : ‘ I might have taken the side of the savage equally , had anybody else taken the side of the shopkeeper . ’ |
13 | I might have known the come on , put the third one down . |
14 | I might have to cut the cleaners ' hours down a bit , ’ says Chris . |
15 | Still mazed with whatever the drug was she had taken , I might have got the truth out of her . |
16 | Of course , had Helmut not left for Zurich but stayed at Park Terrace , and had the situation between the three of us then become something of a tussle , I might have lacked the courage finally to pack up and return to Paris with Jean-Claude . |
17 | Maybe Dundee will be interested in players here , or I might have to break the club 's transfer record to get him . ’ |
18 | I might have left the discotheque and I 'd have never met that man . |
19 | A couple of weeks ago , I might have expected the Tories to scrape through to election victory with such a Budget . |
20 | ‘ I felt I might have passed the pair in front of me on the last lap but what was the point , I had no chance of winning and this is a tough circuit . ’ |