Example sentences of "might [verb] [verb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it might occasionally happen that , rather than give way , the Government might prefer to reconstruct itself as a Coalition Government with the support of some middle-of-the-road members of the Opposition . |
| 2 | Internal relations will also be furthered if those who have featured on filmed material are told when they might expect to see themselves , and the company personnel as a whole will be interested in watching a program me featuring their company . |
| 3 | A driver used to more power and rubber might expect to find himself in trouble if he attempted to maintain his normal pace with the cheapest Fiesta , but such is the confident poise of the car that it offers handling and grip of a far higher order than the tuned-for-economy engine can justify . |
| 4 | Occasionally you might like to indulge yourself in a little olive oil for example on salads ) and this is fine as an occasional treat . |
| 5 | Students of Russia who hail from much smaller and less heterogeneous countries might pause to ask themselves whether democratic rule under any kind of government is possible in a country as awesome in its administrative complexity as this one . |
| 6 | My mother always told me to put on clean underwear in case I got knocked over and taken to hospital , but the possibility that someone 's drunken wife might decide to revenge herself on her husband by going down on me was not a scenario we had ever discussed . |
| 7 | The Independent Television Commission does suggest that Channel 5 might offer local television to individual cities at certain times of the day , and that it might wish to base itself outside London , but only if it chooses . |
| 8 | I simply thought you might wish to make yourself comfortable before we did . ’ |
| 9 | If you feel that , over the years , you might wish to avail yourself of some loans for home improvement , a new car , or some major item of expenditure , then you really do need to keep favour with a bank . |
| 10 | In fact , she had probably done herself a great favour as , had she continued to suppress the memory , she might have caused herself great emotional problems in the future . |
| 11 | Ipuky might have saved himself , but at no one else 's expense . |
| 12 | You might have saved yourself the bother . ’ |
| 13 | I might have saved myself the trouble , as the family remained together for only a short time afterwards ; my sisters married , leaving only my mother and myself at home … |
| 14 | In the instant before Laura replaced the bung I understood how that ancient Japanese potter might have flung himself into those dazzling fountains . |
| 15 | The example of Alain Robbe-Grillet , who acknowledges a debt to Joyce as well as to Sartre and Gide , offered from the late 1950s onwards a renewed incentive to experiment , at a moment when British writers might have felt themselves particularly distanced from modernism . |
| 16 | At the very least it might have asked itself how it intended to make money selling American shares to Americans at a time when Wall Street 's native giants were incapable of doing so . |
| 17 | If you have problems socializing , looking better might give you more confidence but you still might have to give yourself that final push to get out there and start mingling . |
| 18 | Eliot , who might have defended himself , let Shildon 's bitterness go unremarked . |
| 19 | Erm and had he had he patented it or I do n't know about exactly the timing , he might have made himself an absolute fortune . |
| 20 | Here was a sentiment I might have uttered myself . |
| 21 | A moment later and I might have straightened myself . |
| 22 | — as she might have said herself at the time ) . |
| 23 | I might have gone myself , but where else could I hear the music that accompanied the Congregational hymns and anthems ? |
| 24 | You might have to allow yourself more than this if you are away from home and someone else is preparing food for you . |
| 25 | His defence lawyer says the case is unique in French law in that the court accepted Kim might have stabbed herself in this way . |
| 26 | On a polyglot diet of great classics the bookworm might have gorged himself into a mere know-all , not into a writer capable of winning , and deserving , numerous prizes , including a Nobel . |
| 27 | I might have called myself Ross Trenear : . |
| 28 | But in practical terms , the organizational imperative to avoid appeal means modifying demands in the course of negotiations if there is any suggestion that the agency might have to defend itself in an appeal : ‘ we try to see ’ , said a senior officer , ‘ there are no grounds for reasonable objection . ’ |
| 29 | Such a context might have presented itself during the struggle to secure the passage of the Reform Bill . |
| 30 | If you 'd been with me , I might have stiffened myself and gone on with it . |