Example sentences of "might be [verb] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think his natural instinct might be to hit Charles rather hard . |
| 2 | This — not to understand the artworks themselves — but the fathom out what the writer might be getting et . |
| 3 | I might be getting Sister Act on Saturday . |
| 4 | We come now to what might be called COSLA 's auntie problem . |
| 5 | They started off as bynames — nicknames , sobriquets and such — to distinguish two persons in the same locality who might be called Alfred , Edgar , Edith or Ethelhild , or to mark some outstanding characteristic . |
| 6 | I can only suppose that my name had respectable associations , and he thought it might allay criticism in what might be called Athenaeum circles . |
| 7 | I thought he might be called Peggy in the House for ever after . |
| 8 | This might be called Kinnock 's Revenge . |
| 9 | For that is what might be called Dirk Coetzee 's third profession : he is a family man , a policeman , and a hitman . |
| 10 | A club servant might be taking Moscow gold so perhaps one should not share secrets with them and so might another club member — but since he is likely to be a government official as well you already have a far bigger problem than just his being a member of your club . |
| 11 | Less radical than the abolitionist , but perhaps more realistic , the reductionist seeks a minimalist prison system ( which it might be argued England , with a rate of 28 prisoners per 100,000 inhabitants , was not far from at the time of Brockway 's article ) within which reasonably decent standards might be maintained . |
| 12 | That peace might be disturbed Las in Dem . |
| 13 | David Brush , and we we 're still wa we 're waiting on a Lily , so I think we might be asking Naomi to do our Lily for u |
| 14 | Thus , at the height of the summer of 1936 , General Mola was the only person who might be considered Franco 's rival . |
| 15 | It did n't bother him in the least that she might be missing Arnie . |
| 16 | We might be doing Robert Titford 's memory a disservice to imagine that his disastrous voyage to South and Central America — his first and last as a master mariner — had any such sinister backdrop . |
| 17 | You know , I mean , I might be saying Jimmy has wasted his time this year |
| 18 | I might be playing Hamlet . ’ |
| 19 | Even old Stalin Nicholson might be exhorting Gary this very minute , over egg and chips , recalling his days as fastest hod-carrier in the high-rise development before the lumbago got him . |
| 20 | So ‘ colonel ’ might be read COLL-OH-NELL . |