Example sentences of "might [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir John Harington relates , however , how ‘ he would walk at certain hours in one of the aisles of St Paul 's , that if any came to him for spiritual advice and comfort ( as some did though not many ) he might impart it to them ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ We would hope that in consultation it would be tightened up , but the EC might prefer it in its general form , ’ she said . |
| 3 | Books are not life , however much we might prefer it if they were . |
| 4 | He might , some people might prefer it that way , Flora nice wee quiet village . |
| 5 | They 'll improve on it , or they might adapt it , see if they can change it in some way in that case , and they 'll act in a cohesive way . |
| 6 | ‘ I had asked my mother one evening to cut my cheese entire , so that I might toast it , ’ he told Tom Poole : |
| 7 | Might fancy it then . |
| 8 | Trouble is , it 's easily mastered and very limiting — you might throw it high or low , but never wide . |
| 9 | Thus one might treat it as an argument that is designed not so much to challenge the meaningfulness of applying identity to objects qua ontological existents " out there " as to expose the difficulties of drawing a clear distinction between the numerical and the qualitative ( or species ) identity in relation to such objects . |
| 10 | You 'd gone in Blondies next door you might got it a bit cheaper and you can take yourself . |
| 11 | No , cos dad might eat it . |
| 12 | This was implied in Gaddafi 's declaration that Libya ‘ resists any attempt to reduce or cancel out its international role by imposing a situation which might oblige it to relinquish neutrality in compelling circumstances ’ . |
| 13 | Oh you might knock it |
| 14 | To exclude it from ITV , its competitor for advertising revenue , might weaken it further . |
| 15 | Any piece of rotten meat that could still be found in the enclave was slipped over an improvised fish hook , attached to a rope and hurled over the parapet in the vain hope of catching a jackal or a pariah dog that might swallow it . |
| 16 | " You might damage it and that would n't do . |
| 17 | He said : ‘ I think its important , when you have a recovery , you do n't want forms of taxation which might damage it or hit the cash flow of companies . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ That might explain it . |
| 19 | The nature of stress is simple enough — practically everyone would agree that the first syllable of words like ‘ father ’ , ‘ open ’ , ‘ camera ’ is stressed , that the middle syllable is stressed in ‘ potato ’ , ‘ apartment ’ , ‘ relation ’ and that the final syllable is stressed in ‘ about ’ , ‘ receive ’ , ‘ perhaps ’ , and most people feel they have some sort of idea of what the difference is between stressed and unstressed syllables , though they might explain it in many different ways . |
| 20 | One advantage of siting the body clock in the SCN becomes apparent once we try to understand how time-cues might affect it . |
| 21 | However , what might affect it is if at the time of the making of the contract the parties make an agreement about delivery and/ or payment , e.g. that they be postponed . |
| 22 | Secondly , we might think it daring in the extreme , if not plain wrong , that the storyteller should represent God as being in Jacob 's grip until nearly the end of the contest . |
| 23 | In the year 2040 our children and our descendants might think it was an ‘ extreme case ’ not to have begun to take action to reduce nitrate pollution half a century earlier . |
| 24 | The ordinary householder might think it normal to estimate needs , list the various ways of filling them , then adopt the cheapest options . |
| 25 | He might think it the honourable thing to do . |
| 26 | So smooth is the power delivery of the turbo that many drivers might think it a conventional engine . |
| 27 | Yet if , like John Cromartie in David Garnett 's novella A Man in the Zoo , such a person did not object to being caged up ( Cromartie enjoyed it ) then we would raise no objection to its continuing , however unenviable we might think it to be ( Garnett 1932 ) . |
| 28 | As a young man I believe that the purpose of painting was to make something took real , and I have never abandoned the idea , even if you might think it an old fashioned concept . |
| 29 | Given the option of seventeen papers in two sizes , six ink colours and twelve different styles of type-face , you might think it would be confusing to order your personal stationery by post . |
| 30 | 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 . |