Example sentences of "it [conj] [pron] might [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm not planning to try so hard for it that I might break down . ’ |
| 2 | It had n't been much of a job after all ; he had thought at first from the sound of it that it might mean travel , but it did n't . |
| 3 | Barcelona had already been refused a penalty , but they soon drew level through Julio Salinas , the deceptively inelegant striker who has taken Gary Lineker 's reluctant ill-fitted role on the right wing and , on Saturday , made such a good job of it that he might have had a hat-trick but for Francisco Buyo 's reflexes . |
| 4 | It 's round , but it has a clarity to it that you might associate with a Telecaster and not with a Les Paul . ’ |
| 5 | Taking out a separate maintenance contract or insurance is only really worth it if you might need back-up urgently . |
| 6 | ‘ Do n't say it and we might get out ! ’ |
| 7 | In their nervousness they offered at once the gifts they had brought : tea , fruit , duty-free whiskey — ‘ It 'll be useful to have in the house even if nobody drinks it and we might need a glass ’ — a printed silk headscarf , thick fur gloves . |
| 8 | Well we 'll have a look at it and we might have both |
| 9 | Stop talking about it and we might have more time . |
| 10 | So you 've got your graph now and then they 'd have a question on it and they might say , Erm what would be the weight with five engines ? |
| 11 | Keep at it and I might let you have a couple of those fivers . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Yea , but not to get wild with the guy selling it because he might have had nothing to do with the theft . ’ |
| 13 | He maintains that what we take to have been the causal circumstance might have existed as it did , and the rest of the universe might have been just as it was-and there might have been no smell . |
| 14 | There was one , now , lurking in the vegetable basket and Henry moved towards it as one might move towards an unexploded bomb . |
| 15 | When I went to what was in effect not merely the memorial of the fifty aft after fifty two years of the people , but of course really the funeral service of the pit and when I went to that here was the chance to dedicate that also , we did it actually at the Memorial Garden where all the pit people are buried and that is right you see , picking up out of the past not sticking in the past , and arranging it as you might say as in that banner to move on into the future . |
| 16 | A person may say that he feels a pain in his foot , but it is obvious that he does not feel it as he might feel a pin in his foot . |
| 17 | She handed this creature to Roland , who took it as he might have done a kitten , cradling it in the crook of his elbow , and adding to it , in turn , the nightcapped one , in tiny white pleats and broderie anglaise , and the dark-headed one , severe in dark peacock . |
| 18 | He said it as he might have said , I have cancer . |