Example sentences of "might [vb infin] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be an ark , but one on which anthropophagy is rife ; an ark skippered by some crazy greybeard who beats you round the head with his gopher-wood stave , and might pitch you overboard at any moment . |
| 2 | Might fancy it then . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The man 's mind is in such a state that it might unhinge him completely . |
| 5 | To exclude it from ITV , its competitor for advertising revenue , might weaken it further . |
| 6 | Since this sentence explains the context for what precedes , we might think it more natural to place it ( deprived of the connecting words " And then " ) at the beginning of the paragraph . |
| 7 | And I told him we might want him again this afternoon . ’ |
| 8 | All the same , it took a rather special sense of self to turn down an England trial at the age of 19 on the grounds that Scotland might want him instead . |
| 9 | But I suppose he might want it just to see what he 's missed . |
| 10 | ‘ It might make 'im better . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I 'll be down soon , ’ I said , and rocked to and fro in the bed to make noises which might make it sound as though I was getting up . |
| 12 | More particularly , those who owed their careers and their satisfactions to grammar schools , or were headmasters of them , feared that the progressive elimination of those schools might make it more difficult for the maintained sector to compete effectively with the independent schools . |
| 13 | The applied orientation of 16–19 work might make it more attractive to more students . |
| 14 | But the scale of the buy-outs might make it more difficult to maintain that position . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , is my hon. Friend the Minister not concerned about the growth in size of housing associations , which might make it more difficult to maintain the personal contact with tenants which is an important aspect of good housing management ? |
| 16 | He admitted that the ending of PRT rebates might make it more costly to drill wells confirming the size of the field , but added : ‘ We look at the production side rather than exploration and we also look at how much it costs the Government . ’ |
| 17 | Which might make it more difficult to teach . |
| 18 | might make it better |
| 19 | Do you live in hope that your fortune might tempt her away from her rightful husband ? ’ |
| 20 | She felt as though she were treading on thin ice and any false move might plunge her once more into the dark depths of despair . |
| 21 | Peter might know her too . |
| 22 | You might recognise her then . ’ |
| 23 | You might need it later in the same flight ; if it is n't there , you ca n't use it . |
| 24 | We might need it yet to do another bit . |
| 25 | For instance , if we happen to witness the fall from the cliff-top proposed above , there are many other ways in which we might think of the action apart from using the word acrobatic ; we might describe it as athletic , agile , amazing , swift , cat-like , or we might employ any of an indefinitely large number of similes along the lines of with the speed of a gibbon . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Having tried out these various methods you might consider them too time-consuming to use for large areas but they are so attractive that they can be put to good use as trimmings . |
| 28 | But there 's more to these 26th November recordings than famous and soon-to-be-famous names : take such as Kogo , Now 's the Time , Warming up a Riff and Billie 's Bounce represent Parker at what one might consider his recently matured best . |
| 29 | Because if it does I might consider it now … ’ |
| 30 | Sometimes they break a bone without any known injury ; at other times fractures do n't happen when you might expect them most . |