Example sentences of "[pron] might [not/n't] [vb infin] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I might not get a chance this week to read of the collapse of reason , of the loneliness of standing for something . |
| 2 | Sandy was already in the side , and I got talking to him again , Calero was struggling , and I said I might not have a bag for the Ryder Cup . |
| 3 | Many of the latter were young , in their twenties , and included ‘ yuppies ’ in City and financial institutions who might not smoke a lot but took the attitude that they would smoke more at work if people pressured them over their habit . |
| 4 | He thought she might not last a week at Anpetuwi . |
| 5 | He thought she might not have a heart , or tried to explain away her indifference by imagining she were made of obsidian through and through . |
| 6 | Although you might not meet an elephant on the Wilpattu jungle tracks , you know that they are there when you find a tree pulled down or bull-dozed across the road . |
| 7 | If you asked him a question you might not get an answer for a week . |
| 8 | You might not have a problem |
| 9 | I mean so even something 's like this on the organic , you might not have a clue what polyethylene is or polypropylene or anything else , but you can read the pie chart and work out what what 's going on . |
| 10 | In such circumstances one particular recipe takes over , which Easton 's section police call ‘ bluff ’ : ‘ Even though you might n't have a clue , you bluff your way through . ’ |
| 11 | I was rather wondering if we might not arrange a meeting . |
| 12 | They 've probably not read the sign , or they might not give an indicator at all . |
| 13 | Several senior broadcasters , including Sir David Attenborough , Sir Paul Fox and former BBC managing director Bill Cotton , have indicated they might not attend a farewell dinner tomorrow for former director-general Sir Michael Checkland because of the row . |
| 14 | ‘ We 'd been told that they might not have a lot of clothes , but they arrived with these huge suitcases , ’ Michelle recalls . |
| 15 | They might n't have a pound between them but he knew it would be paid . |
| 16 | It was held ( a ) that it was a statement of present fact , namely that at the time the letter was sent the traveller had a definite and certain booking , ( b ) that that statement was false because the airline 's overbooking policy meant that the traveller 's booking was exposed to a risk that it might not give a seat on the aircraft , and ( c ) that the airline made the false statement knowingly ( and not merely recklessly ) since the airline was well aware of its own overbooking policy . |
| 17 | So I headed back , realising that plans to combine Beinn an Dothaidh should be abandoned since the view would be remarkably similar from its summit , although it might not boast a ring pull . |
| 18 | But , even if the All Blacks are subconsciously tempted to relegate the Irish to an after-thought , it might not make a bit of difference . |
| 19 | Indeed , as Paul Du Noyer noted in NME , it might not make a sausage of difference to your diet but it 's guaranteed to leave a feeling of guilt in your head as you tuck into that rump steak . |
| 20 | Depopulation from plague was a very real factor in the long term , and while it might not destroy a village immediately , it could weaken it as a social and economic unit . |
| 21 | Ruggia did everything possible to take his mind off the fact that he might not have a ride at all . |
| 22 | he might not have a place . |
| 23 | I then pointed out to him that I strongly deprecated a dissolution at this moment as I had implicit confidence in him and in the Conservative Party now in power , and I considered that as most countries in Europe , if not in the world , were in a chaotic and indeed dangerous state , it would be a pity if this country were to be plunged into the turmoil of a General Election on a question of domestic policy which will arouse all the old traditional bitterness of the hard fought battles between Protection and Free Trade : also that it was quite possible that his majority might be reduced , or that he might not get a majority at all . |
| 24 | He might not get an ice lolly . |