Example sentences of "[indef pn] might [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This body : his pride in it , I firmly speculate , is connected to the fear that someone might hurt it-might mutilate or demolish it . |
| 2 | As someone might discard an empty mixifoam container . |
| 3 | ‘ Sorry about the bang , ’ she called , much as someone might apologise for slamming a car door too loudly , and she started to walk towards him . |
| 4 | If I rang the ward and gave a false name someone might recognize my voice . |
| 5 | Given shelter , someone might pass undetected in this landscape for some time . |
| 6 | How can we allow for the possibility that someone might request an opinion antagonistically , by picking on someone who does not want to speak ? |
| 7 | Because the Grand Canyon Department of Ridiculous Redundant Forms Redundancy Department feared that someone might mail George a get-well card with a bomb in it , they shut down their office . |
| 8 | ‘ You have n't got a brother or sister so you just do n't know , do you , how someone might feel ! |
| 9 | But I 'm afraid of marriage because I 'm afraid someone might want me because of who I am instead of because they loved me . |
| 10 | I was so innocent that in spite of our so-called training , of all the propaganda , I had never really been able to believe that someone might want to kill me . |
| 11 | Someone might want to steal it . " |
| 12 | Toilet seats are propped up against the wall , in the unlikely event that someone might want to buy them in a country where hygiene is pathological . |
| 13 | While this would be fine for writers of science fiction , it would mean that no one 's life would ever be safe : someone might go into the past and kill your father or mother before you were conceived ! |
| 14 | Someone might do something behind your back . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I knew someone might die . ’ |
| 16 | It reflects moral regret for having violated a situation of trust , and it shows concern that someone might have been hurt . ’ |
| 17 | Someone might have warned the poor girl that Peckinpah 's movies do have that effect on some people . |
| 18 | However if evil were merely a hateful and external power without echo in the hearts of the good , then someone might have to take the Ring to the Cracks of Doom , but it need not be Frodo : Gandalf could be trusted with it , while whoever went would have only to distrust his enemies , not his friends and not himself . |
| 19 | Someone might have heard him talking in a pub about his sudden excess of money and decided to take it off him . |
| 20 | He sniffed his whisky as if someone might have doctored it , then took a gulp . |
| 21 | I was n't dependent on coke , any more than it was nice to have a line after a heavy day — just like someone might have a glass of wine . |
| 22 | I want him to investigate that vent for any sign that someone might have used it to escape . ’ |
| 23 | Lorton glanced at Dougal and wondered where the hell they were : in real life or in the middle of a tale that someone might have written but never had ? |
| 24 | All along that awful journey I 'd been tortured by the thought that someone might have found and moved the dinghy and that I would be trapped in this hellish marsh . |
| 25 | Someone might have warned me they were all one-way ! ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Thank you … and you know , I think someone might have slipped something in my drink . ’ |
| 27 | Someone might have seen Alice there . |
| 28 | My hon. Friend has commented in detail on the transcript of that hearing , including the statements by the witness , Mr. Farrell ; the differences of opinion about the handwriting on the receipt ; whether someone might have stolen the receipt book and forged the receipt ; unsupported allegations about previous examples of Mr. Brand 's paperwork being missing ; and the apparent lack of follow-up to the mother 's original letter . |
| 29 | However , whether or not someone might have bumped him off is mercifully a hypothetical question , seeing that he had the decency to do the job himself . |
| 30 | you see Lord is here very splendidly to argue the case and at the moment I 'd like you to address the question , I 'll ask it again , the question is , I think it 's a simple one , it follows from your answer about why the brochures had to be updated , but when there was a time when they were not updated before nineteen eighty nine , there was a risk was n't there that with the brochures printing service charges towards the end of the sales period someone might have been mislead by the brochure ? that 's right is n't it ? |