Example sentences of "might [vb infin] [verb] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could not imagine who might want to see her at this time on a Saturday morning . |
| 2 | You might enjoy doing something like that . ’ |
| 3 | Now somehow I want you to break out of that and to , as I say , shout it from the rooftops , because in the end , the public applause from that will protect you from those who might seek to neuter you in that role . |
| 4 | If you feel that , over the years , you might wish to avail yourself of some loans for home improvement , a new car , or some major item of expenditure , then you really do need to keep favour with a bank . |
| 5 | I ca n't wait for you any longer , especially when I consider how long it might take to extricate you from another relationship if I give you time and you use it to involve yourself with Jones or whoever else you might have in mind … |
| 6 | In the instant before Laura replaced the bung I understood how that ancient Japanese potter might have flung himself into those dazzling fountains . |
| 7 | You might have felt nothing at all . |
| 8 | She might have done it in private — she is fun and without question , a little flirtatious — — but Diana had understood from the start that her public image had to be beyond reproach , and it always had been . |
| 9 | And the vigorous , life-enhancing breakers that plunged inland , that might have deposited her on soft , rich , regenerative soil , were involved in a never-consummated effort , frustrated by the moon . |
| 10 | He seemed obtuse , as she felt by this time that she had more than cancelled out any slight encouragement she might have given him at first . |
| 11 | Might have cut somebody with that . ’ |
| 12 | His defence lawyer says the case is unique in French law in that the court accepted Kim might have stabbed herself in this way . |
| 13 | As she flew up to her room , she thought her father might have killed her for that speech . |
| 14 | If their historical interest had saved them from the pick , the swinging steel ball , and the bulldozer , their intractable lay-out had discouraged renovators who might have put them to some use . |
| 15 | ( But Gillecrist , who might have advised him about that , was dead . ) |
| 16 | Fry felt that he might have left it for good after his latest week of unemployment . |
| 17 | ‘ It will be a bit of a wrench , but the England team manager 's job is the top one in the business and if I had n't accepted it , I might have regretted it in later life . ’ |
| 18 | I 'm sure we can get an accountant to come and speak to us , but we might have to pay him for two hours work , you see . |
| 19 | I might have to hurt you for that . |
| 20 | He might have had it for some long time , I do n't know , but I came across it in a drawer in the small bedroom when I was putting his clean linen away . |
| 21 | Michael might come to visit her at any time . |
| 22 | Except that it if it involved waiting in this corridor for much longer , one of the security cameras might start to register her despite all diversionary moves , and she should therefore now take a break of at least six hours before coming back here . |
| 23 | If you have tried other diets , it might help to know something about some of the most recent and popular ones . |
| 24 | We might , however , usefully make " trust " the focal point of a drama in which , for example we examined when it is appropriate to trust someone , or how we might learn to trust someone in difficult circumstances , or how we can gain someone 's trust — but this is very different from the worryingly naive claims sometimes made for " trust games " . |