Example sentences of "do [Wh det] [pers pn] might " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the right kind of visual material you could do what we might call " skim viewing " of the bits you do n't want to spend time on . |
| 2 | Theda took Hector to the kitchen and left him with Mrs Elswick to do what he might in the way of cajolery , for she had several morsels of interest to his ever ready stomach , and Theda was obviously not going to take him outside . |
| 3 | Faculty chairman Peter Wyman told ACCOUNTANCY : ‘ We are very concerned that the Revenue has started to use some of the anti-avoidance legislation to stop people doing what they might legitimately do to try to minimise their ACT problem . ’ |
| 4 | Constitutions thus both liberate and bind ; they provide for a framework of ordered freedom within a set of rules which prevents both majorities and their elected representatives from doing what they might otherwise wish to do . |
| 5 | Yet her household , instead of doing what they might to ease her last days , were not merely neglectful , but downright cruel . |
| 6 | This on top of everything else , she seemed to be thinking , although she did what she might to eliminate exhaustion and scorn from her voice . |
| 7 | Yet neither does what we might call ‘ the economists ’ Pacific' . |