Example sentences of "that [pron] might [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er and she said he enjoys it and he goes to playgroup I think he must go to Dennington playgroup cos he 's going to Dennington school , and he enjoys sitting down and being , likes looking at books and he 's started writing and she said actually she said I 'm really panicking because I 'm frightened that I might be teaching him wrong and that I 'm I said well why do n't you pop in and have a word at the school ? |
| 2 | I HAVE recently become a vegetarian but am worried because I 'm told that I might be missing out on iron in my diet ? |
| 3 | But the whole incident has depressed me and for the first time since being diagnosed it occurs to me that I might be dying . |
| 4 | Yet , despite the desperate fatigue and the fear that I might be making a fool of myself , I was seized with a curious elation that kept me going . |
| 5 | He looked around , as if afraid that someone might be listening to their conversation . |
| 6 | The most obvious signs that someone might be sniffing are : |
| 7 | She had not stopped to think that she might be inserting herself into a social scene that she had walked away from when she had left home . |
| 8 | Her blackboard technique was also extremely idiosyncratic ; she would write up equations , get them wrong , mumble to herself , rub them out , look them up in a book , and all this without any suspicion that she might be forfeiting the confidence of her pupils . |
| 9 | Suzannah said that she might be going up tomorrow evening . |
| 10 | It did n't bother him in the least that she might be missing Arnie . |
| 11 | He took her to the airport nurse , who could find nothing wrong with her but agreed that she might be suffering from jet lag and needed only to rest . |
| 12 | For some idiotic reason it had never crossed her mind that she might be doing something illegal . |
| 13 | Let everybody you know have the details of the kind of employment that you might be looking for . |
| 14 | Erm , then it may well be for the benefit of Greater York that you might be looking at more than one settlement ? |
| 15 | It says right here on your records that you might be thinking of wimping out on us . |
| 16 | Well that is an argument that applies to almost anything that you might be trying to sell , whether it 's a commercial product or whether it is an artistic product , and in any case , as I have said before , we also support erm a great many organizations and projects which should , and will , appeal to the general public . |
| 17 | Hard work , but worth it for the feeling that you might be helping producers to realise that there is a discerning market out there , and not one that reacts blindly to the word ‘ organic ’ . |
| 18 | Questions such as , ‘ Do you feel that you might be doing this in order to produce this kind of feeling or situation ? ’ , can lead counsellees to a re-examination of their motives . |
| 19 | ‘ And did n't it even once cross your mind that you might be doing harm ? ’ |
| 20 | erm some of the stuff that you might be doing in things like perception and stuff like that erm |
| 21 | ‘ It never occurred to me that you might be talking about a postponement . ’ |
| 22 | A concentrated stare at the white tile immediately ahead of one usually takes place when someone unknown unexpectedly occupies the stall alongside — sometimes accompanied by the onset of a tuneless and preoccupied whistle — anything to avoid creating the impression that one might be showing an untoward interest in the UG equipment of one 's neighbour . |
| 23 | Er , I 've seen other papers where there is a hint that we might be looking for a contribution , er , out of the general budget , er , of that difference , that two hundred and fifty thousand . |
| 24 | It was once believed to be a very young star , still condensing ; then it was suggested that we might be dealing with a Black Hole ; now it seems more likely that the eclipsing component is a hot bluish star surrounded by a cloud of opaque material . |
| 25 | Gordon Lines suggests that we might be underestimating the carbon input by omitting carbon-fixation by algae and photosynthetic bacteria ( Letters , 23 December , 1982 , p 857 ) . |
| 26 | They do not know what sort of sacrifice most propitiates them , so that they might be wasting their sacrifices . |
| 27 | Apart from straightforward fountains , ornaments depicting cherubs , mermaids and similar characters can be purchased , each designed to take a pump outlet so that water can spout from its mouth ( Fig. 6 ) , or a shell , or any similar object that they might be holding . |
| 28 | So if you have house guests for the festive period it could be that they might be staying four or five days . |
| 29 | It 's worrying how many excellent drama teachers have been troubled by the idea that they might be teaching theatre skills as an integral part of their non-performance work . |
| 30 | Well if you have other applications running the reason is obvious — you are cutting them off in their prime without giving them a chance to save data or clean up any temporary files that they might be using . |