Example sentences of "might [vb infin] me [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I persuaded my mother that I should be the first visitor ; after all , I knew Parma better than she did , and since I was a young girl they might treat me more kindly . |
| 2 | ‘ Might slow me down . ’ |
| 3 | And if they 're hurt , then they might hurt me back , so really I 'm just being safe and secure . |
| 4 | I do n't think any prison will make me better , but it might make me not come back . |
| 5 | I took him to about twenty houses and had made love to him on the splintery boards of about half of them before he decided that this was not a suitable town for his mother to live in — too quiet , too far from London — and the estate agent , whose car had been left standing in leafy side-streets for too many unprofitable hours , gave me a week 's wages and said he thought another job might suit me better . |
| 6 | I 'd tried waiting for the natural course of events to bring me the way of the creche , some errand Mrs Goreng might send me on , but it had n't worked out that way . |
| 7 | But someone might see me out there … |
| 8 | I think she might believe me now , but I 'm not sure . |
| 9 | I understood that you might like me better if I had experience , if I did n't have opinions about things I knew nothing about . … ’ |
| 10 | ‘ P'raps 'e might like me too , ’ said Nancy . |
| 11 | Then he touched her cheek with a soft palm and added in a low , throaty whisper , ‘ You might destroy me utterly , I think , but you could never hurt me . ’ |
| 12 | I 'd had visions of various Uulaan delights that I hoped she might join me in , above all the free-fall Orgitunnel , among whose heaving tangle of bodies in simulated zerograv I 've had many memorable experience . |
| 13 | His mother might take me away to live with her . |
| 14 | might take me down . |
| 15 | You might take me there and then run away and leave me ! " said the tiger fearfully . |
| 16 | is now nitpicking and harassing me to a degree which might lead me yet again to write to my MP . |
| 17 | It might put me off sailing for good ! ’ |
| 18 | Well , I could do with a good box and that might put me in with a chance . |
| 19 | I was worried that she might shut me out and that our marriage might break up . |
| 20 | He feared that he might love me completely . |
| 21 | He was cruel because he wanted to drive me away ; but he wanted to drive me away because he feared that he might love me completely . |
| 22 | Now that I 'm feeling a bit calmer , I can see that it was amazingly presumptuous of me even to imagine that Madeleine might love me enough to sacrifice all the luxuries she 's used to , just to be with me ! |
| 23 | Can you give me any indication of the gravity of the investigation which , in your view , might justify me in deliberately withholding from the board information of direct importance to the bank 's shareholders ? " |
| 24 | ‘ That might cheer me up . ’ |
| 25 | As the days went by , I did start to try the newspapers and job centres again — anywhere in fact that I thought might find me either a job or a home . |
| 26 | I thought you might ask me about that some time , ’ he murmured . |
| 27 | Father looked as if he might hit me again . |