Example sentences of "[pers pn] might [adv] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think he hoped I might eventually add distinction to the family name , of which he was intensely proud , and his initial interest in me also developed into affection . |
| 2 | Paula said slyly , ‘ I might just tell Mum what you and Edward get up to in the pictures . ’ |
| 3 | Finally Mr Mayor I might just take issue with councillor . |
| 4 | ‘ But I might just feign insanity some day and come back for another cup of that damned fine coffee . ’ |
| 5 | I might even give money to The Campaign for Heavier Helmets today . |
| 6 | ‘ So you did , and in that case , if you 're a very good girl , I might yet make love to you . ’ |
| 7 | I reckoned I might still escape detection , however , if I ran on my toes in a sort of hearty limbering up exercise . |
| 8 | She might even make room for Louise on her float . |
| 9 | She might even buy mince pies instead of making them ! |
| 10 | The Prime Minister announced on Nov. 26 that some months earlier the Queen had asked him to consider the basis on which she might voluntarily pay tax on her personal income and also take responsibility for certain payments to additional members of the royal family ; the Prince of Wales had made a similar request with regard to the Duchy of Cornwall . |
| 11 | I wondered if she might ever get frostbite ; I was sure I could see little crystals of ice glinting on her faint moustache . |
| 12 | The pain would return , she knew , cruel and cutting , but pride and hurt meant little compared to the fear that she might never see fitzAlan again . |
| 13 | From Laruns you might also travel east , up the smaller valley of the river Valentin , which is enormously lush because it gets unusual amounts of rain . |
| 14 | You might also include Christmas and holiday expenses . |
| 15 | If you are lucky you might also catch sight of an otter around the burn . |
| 16 | You might also see gadwall , Brent geese and Bewick 's swans . |
| 17 | So while you might well overhear Eeyore sighing to himself , and know therefore that he is n't trying to mislead anyone , it 's much less likely ( though not of course impossible ) that you 'll overhear Rabbit muttering ‘ There 's honey ’ to himself . |
| 18 | Walking exercises your legs and buttock muscles and builds up stamina , but a few add-on exercises will really pay dividends — though you might still have trouble standing after the first day on your skis . |
| 19 | We might also base management more firmly still on a multifactorial model of the risks of microvascular and macrovascular disease , paying particular attention to smoking , blood pressure , and lipids as well as blood glucose . |
| 20 | I thought we might perhaps have lunch . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I 'd thought we might safely have dinner here tonight . |
| 22 | We might therefore demand difference of grammatical paradigm as a minimum requirement for distinctness . |
| 23 | But it 's the war , ’ she added without guile , and because the chief had taken a liking to the woman with the thick Liverpool accent who met her gaze without flinching , she told them to cut along to the galley ; if they were lucky they might just make standeasy . |
| 24 | It 's not clear at the moment , whether we gon na get too much opposition , I mean , they might just sort cave in straight at the beginning and then take it on board , but er , there 's definite potential there . |
| 25 | If these attitudes authorise a restrictive approach to the interpretation of statutes which , more broadly construed , would threaten fundamental values , they might equally justify rejection of statutes whose infringement of such values was sufficiently grave . |
| 26 | If between them they acquire ( when aggregated with their existing holdings of shares ) 30 per cent or more of the target 's voting rights they might similarly breach Rule 5 or trigger an obligation to make a mandatory offer for the target themselves . |
| 27 | By finding the Robemaker ( or being found by him ? ) they might somehow rescue Nuadu . |
| 28 | But once these new mechanisms are in place , managers are left with little guidance from business ethicists about how , precisely , they might best make use of them . |
| 29 | They might really want wine from below . ’ |
| 30 | They might really dislike sort of a standard English accent sort of |