Example sentences of "[pers pn] might [verb] [pron] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | really but seeing as I know her erm I thought I might give her a ring . |
2 | ‘ I might give someone a ring . ’ |
3 | I might give you a name one day and the next day the vacancy would be filled . |
4 | I might give you a ring later and say can you have Aaron |
5 | I might toss her a crumb . |
6 | If there was water to spare I would smarten up and shave , regardless of where I was , and I might cook myself a treat , kippers or pilchards . |
7 | I might get you a couple of rooms — but then again , at some point I have to be in the rooms to do that . ’ |
8 | If I ask Shirley nicely she might lend me a couple . |
9 | He thought , eating it , that he must be careful not to be too metaphorical in his instructions , since , in her anxiety to obey him to the letter , she might feed him a diet of unrelieved soup and rice pudding . |
10 | She might do us a lot of harm . |
11 | ‘ I thought she might give us a mention but to get a personal donation like this is more than we could ever have hoped for . ’ |
12 | ‘ Anyway , if I did have a village lass dying to do my cooking , do n't you think she might find you a bit off-putting ? ’ |
13 | You 'd gone in Blondies next door you might got it a bit cheaper and you can take yourself . |
14 | He will be anxious to retain your custom so you might give him a try first . |
15 | You might give them a clip round the ear . |
16 | You might give us a call O nine O four six four one six four one . |
17 | They 're all right , really , but if you 'd prefer peace and quiet , you might find them a bit exhausting . ’ |
18 | Invite him to dinner , and you might find it a bit sticky . |
19 | So I suppose whatever area you went into , erm you might find it a bit frustrating to start with , because you were n't looking at the big picture . |
20 | First problems can have several causes ; and second , even when you 're employing a specialist , read any information you can about the job — you may not understand everything , but you might save yourself a lot of bother . , . |
21 | You might call me a patient . |
22 | I suppose you might call me a gent . ’ |
23 | Cambo is on both the river Nive and the main road from Bayonne to Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port , and you might call it a centre . |
24 | I suppose you might call it a deterioration when the ticking stops . |
25 | And I would dare those of you who would look up the newspaper clippings of that occasion and challenge that view , because you would find a much different reading in those newspaper clips than what I learnt many years later , trudging round the island , Personally I thought that I was being particularly clever bombing a seaplane that was taking off , It was only when I was serving on Sylt in the fifties that I learned that this was in fact a tug ( or you might call it a barge , a sea-going barge ) on the end of 100 metres of line , that was being towed . |
26 | ‘ Perhaps he is n't quite what we 've been used to , but I thought we might give him a trial . |
27 | ‘ Well I thought we might give her a spin on Friday night , ’ Yanto answered with a grin . |
28 | We might call it a day at the end of the assignments and take Jenny 's away to recap , erm lets get to the end of the assignments first , Q P9 . |
29 | Oh I think we might call it a day at this with the tapes record this tape |
30 | I am arguing for something far more significant than that , and we might call it a case for ecological morality . |