Example sentences of "might [vb infin] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nancy appreciates that others might need more time than she takes , to absorb and follow her instructions . |
| 2 | I think you might win this time . |
| 3 | They might spend much time , therefore , patrolling their school and its classrooms , talking with children and offering comment to teachers . |
| 4 | When an Orc wants to do something he simply does it , where a human might spend untold time weighing the alternatives . |
| 5 | Otherwise , the patient might spend some time in a private nursing home , possibly paid for by the State . |
| 6 | Sometimes I continue yesterday 's painting or I start a new work , often it is an idea I have thought about from the studio , or I might spend some time looking through sketch books . |
| 7 | With older children we might spend some time discussing this ( perhaps wondering if the giant would ever let us get near enough to open his mouth and clean his teeth for him ) ; with this age group , however , I immediately enthuse about the idea : " Right , that 's really good . |
| 8 | Well , the thing is what 's happening , I thought we might spend some time on if wanted , what I wanted to do was to be sure in my own mind that by the second week I could put up a master sheet with all the headings of what you were doing , that 's got ta be done . |
| 9 | In retrospect , does the Prime Minister agree that he might spend less time talking up false economic dawns and more time taking action for economic recovery ? |
| 10 | So , a P E P is erm er introduced by er Mr Lawson , who you might remember some time ago had er a job as the Chancellor and is now working part-time in the City . |
| 11 | ‘ I have a nasty feeling that getting anywhere might take some time . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Although that might take some time , of course . ’ |
| 13 | The historian of the future might be able to reconstitute all the documents mentioning a particular subject in an automated PRO but the manner in which they inter-relate might take some time to unravel . |
| 14 | Yeah , oh , well April is Easter , April nineteen , twenty , twenty one , twenty two , and it looks like your father he said he might take some time in n it ? |
| 15 | I warned you I was n't going to be able to consider you and any doubts , hesitations or scruples you might have this time around , and I should have remembered that . |
| 16 | Maybe if she and Julie did n't have such tiring , exhausting jobs they might have more time to concentrate on the culinary arts . |
| 17 | Stop talking about it and we might have more time . |
| 18 | She might go any time . |
| 19 | She had always insisted that he was n't to meet her , that she might come any time . |