Example sentences of "might [vb infin] [pron] [modal v] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been speaking , it seemed , more to herself than to him ; she might feel he should n't have listened . |
| 2 | As is usual in such cases the myth seems to be somewhat remote from the historical facts but , for what it is worth , Wilberforce is supposed to have remarked that : " Whatever certain people might believe he would not look at the monkeys in the Zoological Gardens as connected with his ancestors ' , to which Huxley replied : " I would rather be descended from an ape than a bishop " , which has merits as repartee but is hardly a contribution to science . |
| 3 | ‘ WHAT worried me was that I might discover I could n't write at all . ’ |
| 4 | I mean you might decide you wo n't save anything if you only got a pound or you wo n't buy any presents or you wo n't buy any sweets . |
| 5 | Some football lovers might wish they ca n't find it so we can have our outstanding memories of Maradona at his supreme best . |
| 6 | She would n't rush back — that might imply she could n't wait to be with him again — but on the other hand she did n't want to leave it too long ; there were plenty of women , Melissa included , she had noticed , who had had their limpet-like eyes firmly glued to his face . |
| 7 | We buy theatre tickets and have the restaurant booked when , if we stopped and checked what we actually wanted to do , we might find we would much prefer to stay at home and have an early night . ’ |