Example sentences of "[pron] might [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | but er I 'd meet up in town and our house like twenty past nine , half past , get , get , get the bit of shopping done before the fucking crowds I might off wasted me time , we got in there about ten o'clock , right old day . |
| 2 | The notion of difference of level between quite different programming languages can equally well be expressed within a single language : at a single level of language , say of the programming language LISP , one normally defines a function in terms of sub-functions , so that I might for example write a function WALK(x) ( where x ranges over walkers ) whose sub-functions ( to be executed in order ) might be some form of LIFT-RIGHT-LEG ; FLEX-RIGHT-FOOT ; and so on ( I am not suggesting that sequence would be even remotely plausible in fact ) . |
| 3 | ‘ They usually come up with a couple of lesser-known names , and if I can keep the runs coming I like to think I might at least get a mention . ’ |
| 4 | I might at this moment be living in anguish with Peter Datchett . |
| 5 | Try as I might to be in the present , to subsume myself to history , to see myself as just another corpuscle coursing along the urban arteries , I could n't . |
| 6 | he said I might to town today . |
| 7 | Yeah , I might of thought still send out omitting the letter actually this month . |
| 8 | I might of course only gesture and say " John " , but unless my gesture means , or can be understood to mean , " the man over there " , or something akin to this , " John " will fail to communicate anything . |
| 9 | And finally , if I may , the question you raised earlier and I did n't respond to it as erm I might of done , er the question about whether North Yorkshire is particularly unique . |
| 10 | mm I 've caught , I might of caught it when I went to the dustbin |
| 11 | if they have been , I might of have to done something |
| 12 | I might of missed it . |
| 13 | Yeah , but it 's very , it 's well , can , I do n't suppose it can be , I might of had one of the speakers out but I know there in the back of the speakers , you had this loft insulation it 's full of that |
| 14 | I think I might of done |
| 15 | I might of put it up there and you put all these magazines on it |
| 16 | I du n no I might of thrown it out actually , when did I , was it on the table last night ? |
| 17 | I might of I do n't think I have there |
| 18 | to me but I d I still , I do n't get the same feeling from you as perhaps I might with medical notes , if you see what I mean ? |
| 19 | I know that 's why I 'm not , I 'm I might over Miss . |
| 20 | I mean er , I wonder in fact I mi I might as you this question , have you discussed er sex with your parents ? |
| 21 | No I think I might in the box . |
| 22 | Nobody could keep up with all the chemists nowadays , for example ; though someone might from time to time attend enormous congresses of chemists , he or she would go to papers devoted to his or her special branch of the subject . |
| 23 | right , its almost definite British come under fire but it does seem that the para 's did kill erm out of , out of the thirteen , only one had any I R A links , he was a member of the , the I R A erm , and out of the remaining twelve only three of them might of fired a gun , you know , they leg or the hands , by the side , by the gun |
| 24 | One of them might in fact be Glitter Grey who runs in the Mickey McArdle Chase at Dundalk next Friday night . |
| 25 | Like last year , it also seeks a disapplication of the pre-VXKVK rights on a rights issue so as to allow the Directors , when making a rights issue , to exclude or make such other arrangements as may be appropriate to resolve legal or practical problems which might for example arise with overseas shareholders . |
| 26 | One reason for this , which might at first sight seem paradoxical , was that , except in the aristocracy , the family unit had contracted . |
| 27 | Not all are valid but the variables that go into product make-up justify a far greater range than that which might at first appear strictly essential . |
| 28 | He clarifies the difference by comparing the humanistic pastoral counsellor 's attitude to suffering as ‘ something to be relieved ’ , with the spiritual director 's ‘ which might at least suggest the counterclaim that it was rather something to be interpreted and creatively redeemed ’ . |
| 29 | It is even a good idea to hold on to congratulatory memos ( perhaps appended to slips telling you of pay increases ) or any other correspondence which might at some distant date help you to defend yourself against unfair criticisms of your capabilities . |
| 30 | In their Narratives of love and loss ( 1987 , pp.1–2 ) they have set out ‘ to understand and … explain the astonishing emotional depth and moving power of works which might at first sight appear deceptively simple to adult readers , written as they are to be read by children ’ . |