Example sentences of "they might [adv] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the far bank they might just discern the silhouette of a straining horse on the tow-path ; from nearby they might just hear a discreet splosh as the eel-fishermen cast off and slipped out into the stream . |
| 2 | They might also recollect the wriggling of the hon. Member for Dagenham ( Mr. Gould ) on television the other day on precisely that problem . |
| 3 | For the system to work you would need to ensure that your colleagues had a copy — and if that were the case they might even read the book . |
| 4 | When they met , they might even have the decency to paper the cracks . |
| 5 | They might even use the computer to print out some simple questions to use on site . |
| 6 | When those hybrids overran the guards they might simply tear the last survivors apart . |
| 7 | He made a similar point about a rise in salary for municipal employees : there was no possibility of seriously debating that unless the local Assembly knew what they might otherwise spend the money on , and what the total budget for the municipalities was — and information on both points was not forthcoming . |
| 8 | One development in this respect is known as the ‘ Portage ’ programme , where the parents of the child are taught how they might best develop the potential of the child in a home environment . |
| 9 | Other teaching unions said they might well boycott the plan . |
| 10 | But these can not yet be attributed to the activities of an individual mosaicist — although they might well indicate the predilictions of an influential client or close- knit group of clients — and are still most significant when viewed over considerable periods of time . |
| 11 | Thus they were using important , " real world " information for their project but they might well use the same source and information later in their adult lives . |
| 12 | Even if this does not strictly fit into the history framework , teachers will want to build on such events , or , alternatively , they might perhaps form the basis of a " once only " local unit . |
| 13 | And the other difficulty is that if you 're , if you 're talking on a controversial subject , and you give three minutes and they only want one minute , they might actually choose the one minute you do n't want actually used . |
| 14 | With that decision people came face to face with the expectation known to the early Christians soon after the Crucifixion and to the deeply religious who shivered at the approach of the year A.D. 1000 — the expectation that they might indeed see the end of the world in their lifetime . |