Example sentences of "you might [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If so , we can easily adjourn to Fred 's Caff in Brixton where you might react by trying to speak the Queen 's English . ’ |
| 2 | This is not as wild a question as you might suppose in a country where every Buddhist is a monk some time in their lives , and can slip into the habit again at any time . |
| 3 | by request ( you might return at |
| 4 | Other animals you might spot in the woodlands are red squirrels and roe deer . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've got an old pal of yours in here — David Bowie ’ , he said , ‘ we 're talking about making an album but he 's got this song which I do n't like at all , but you might care for it . |
| 6 | Then you might care for me to redraft the complete document in more concise form . |
| 7 | You might conclude from your review of the styles of the best and worst chairperson that the best one : |
| 8 | The sweeping contours of the hill at that point have always reminded me of a huge wave about to break , and it 's an uncomfortable thought trying to imagine where you might stop for lunch , and what would happen if you dropped your orange . |
| 9 | If travelling in a car , you might stop for a few minutes as a penalty , refusing to speak to the child until he behaves . |
| 10 | It is of course very difficult to predict all the uses you might make of a new technology until you have had time to experiment with it , so the same golden rule applies to recording as to playback : start small with a basic system to which you can add . |
| 11 | ( c ) Try to link together the scattered specific observations you might make on a text . |
| 12 | Why , said Pumlumon , had n't there been a time , not so very long ago either , when he could rattle off the words that set the Draoicht Suan working with no more ado than you might make in the squashing of a flea , always supposing you wanted to do something so pointless , which Pumlumon himself never had . |
| 13 | You might vote for Conservative , but that 's the Labour Party ? |
| 14 | You might cope for a while with one eye closed or one hand behind your back but you would n't keep it up for long — nor would you perform at maximum ability . |
| 15 | ‘ If there was somewhere you might stay in the meanwhile , I may shortly be in a position to help you . ’ |
| 16 | Thus you might arrive at an attribution of intention in the warning SQUASHED INSECTS DO NT BITE and the straight assertion MAD MENTAL RULE — without the OK tag , which might be taken to invite assent on the part of the addressee . ) |
| 17 | Then it was gone and he was saying , ‘ I thought you might sleep in this morning . |
| 18 | Y'know kind of kind of comments or playful thoughts you might pass about somebody but you you try not to do it seriously as it were , you try not to let it affect your behaviour towards them , you try to not be surprised if they disclose they 're gay or heterosexual or whatever so er |
| 19 | I agree that most of us need work — but I would point out that it is partly because when you 're unemployed and dependent on the state for support , you do n't have enough money to use your leisure time in the way you might want to . |
| 20 | Because when I was thinking about trying to talking to you today , I thought although we 've worked quite a lot with people along this group , you might be sitting here and thinking well you do n't seem to be doing any specific work for and with old people erm , well I think your quite independent and can work out your right that , but one of the things this front line review erm it erm , it 's considering Council front line services under various headings , one of which is Retired Services that the Council provide as a group , now the leader of the Council wants to erm , get public views on how we look at these services , so , and that 's , that 's individuals and groups and one of the things that you might like to think about and I 'm that we as a local government unit who are servicing this review can help you with , is to consider how you might want to fee in for that review , erm and , and consider this , that the re-services for retired people , that the Council provides that you use and basically whether you use that , or service , we want to hear that , the Council would need to know that cos were gon na be making decisions about whether or not they should continue in this front line review erm , and erm , you know , or what things you would , what , what are your questions on about those services , what other things you would like to see provided , things like that and I thing this group could quite easily make a collective representation , a collective submission to that process then you could do it as individual 's as well , so that , that exercise it , it should be over by the eleventh of October it starts on the sixth of September . |
| 21 | No matter how much you might want to . |
| 22 | You might want to be able to sort of get to their flat very quickly . |
| 23 | Well , you might want to , but at this autumnal time of year you do n't sink down onto cold pebbles making love in the starlight , unless you 're carrying a groundsheet . |
| 24 | Now , er , I do n't know er why you might want to be unlisted , ex-directory , not in the book . |
| 25 | er so you might want to , you know , kind of space it out slightly erm |
| 26 | Equally if you 've got erm I do n't know what other kinds of differences you might want to erm er look for but again if you 're looking for differences it helps if there 's about sort of twenty people in each of the groups sort of thing . |
| 27 | While we can not provide the details you might want at this time , I 'd encourage you to give us the benefit of the doubt . |
| 28 | You might arrange for pay to be given out at a different time and check whether the trains are less crowded somewhat earlier in the afternoon . |
| 29 | It 's the sort of thing you might collect from the House of Commons particularly during a er big debate . |
| 30 | You might start with mountains carpeted in heather overlooking valleys and sparkling streams , lush meadows and forests . |