Example sentences of "[pers pn] might [adv] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know , I might just about copy this out . |
| 2 | British playwright John Arden ( he of Sergeant Musgrave 's Dance ) accepted the Obie on Henry Livings 's behalf , though , commented Livings , ‘ In his mild way John hinted I might well not have enjoyed the way it was done in New York , but I never argue with box-office returns . ’ |
| 3 | I might well never find out where it was , but it would certainly contain some pupils whom the teacher had chosen because she thought they were bright and co-operative and others would almost certainly have been excluded because of their uncooperativeness or lower intelligence . |
| 4 | And I was very sad to face the fact that , having hoped for four years , I might now never have a second child . |
| 5 | I studied all over again those marvellous descriptions and illustrations , and you can perhaps understand my growing excitement at the notion that I might now actually undertake a motoring trip myself around that same part of the country . |
| 6 | And what is more , I might never ever have to look at German again except on a menu in a restaurant on the Rhine where we might go , like other people do , for a real holiday instead of borrowing mildewed cottages and cardboard holiday-houses from people to whom we than have to be disproportionately grateful . |
| 7 | And dad goes , I 'm I think I might only just have orange juice ! |
| 8 | If something like that did not happen soon , Robert thought , she might well not have long to live . |
| 9 | In fact she might even just dream up a few to even up the score a little . |
| 10 | As it was , Clare had acquired a taste for reading , and had her nose constantly in a book ; and it occurred to her mother that she might very well undertake the tuition of Olivia , to save the cost of hiring another governess . |
| 11 | She might very well have just arrived for all the notice he took of her . |
| 12 | She remembered saying that she might very well buy out the others and live in the property herself . |
| 13 | In many cases having the equipment in-house allows you to do other things that you might otherwise never have considered so saving even more . |
| 14 | What I do n't wa , I know it 's handy sometimes you think , ah that covers a lot of things for me and you may have come across something yourself I 'll the there is a key , there should be a key to those things in my cupboard , those lifelines things not the same as cha , I 've got all sorts of ideas that you might pick out and say right we can use that as a lesson you might even just say well sod copyright I 'm gon na photocopy that and I 'll use it ! |
| 15 | Let us assume that you have reached the point in your synspilums ' development where you are setting up their permanent breeding quarters , probably using a 60″ × 18″ × 18″ tank or larger ; you might just about scrape by with a 48″ , but this is not really recommended . |
| 16 | ( Even if you see it in other people , you might well not see it in yourself . ) |
| 17 | You might as usefully say ‘ a symphony is a sequence of musical notes ’ . |
| 18 | When it does work , lifelong friendships can be forged with those you might never otherwise have been likely to meet . |
| 19 | However , you might quite easily eat slightly too much ( an intake amounting to 500 calories ) each day . |
| 20 | Remember that if you hire a builder with a large stetson hat and a six shooter you might very easily reach a situation where , ‘ The house ai n't big enough for both of you . ’ |
| 21 | It 'll be the kind of place you might walk out of as brisk and easy as a knife cutting butter , or you might very well wander about for days , well , weeks even , without finding a proper door . |
| 22 | You might very well say that you were the greatest law lecturer in the world , because people tend to say these things about themselves . |
| 23 | Among many old documents purchased recently from a well-known auction house was a property transfer that you might very well like to see . |
| 24 | So , for instance , if you have an argument with the police er on a matter , you might very well have to say to the police , I think officer you were take that and say you 're a lying bastard . |
| 25 | ‘ And if you push me down again , ’ she warned quietly , ‘ you might very well find that you have a tiger by the tail . |
| 26 | Snizort thought you might very nearly expect creatures , beings , anything at all , to steal through a darkling forest and lie watching the strange group of people eating supper and drinking wine in the glow from the fire . |
| 27 | For example , if you are unfairly made redundant because consideration was not given to offering you another job , your compensation might be discounted to take account of the fact that , had proper consideration been given , you might still not have been offered that job . |
| 28 | Indeed , by about the middle of the morning we feel surprisingly alert — we might even not bother with sleep after all — and we appear to have overcome the effects of a lost night ‘ s sleep . |
| 29 | We might also usefully recall that to cross is not only to traverse , but to mix ( as in to crossbreed ) and to contradict ( as in to cross someone ) ; also that cross-dressing potentially involves both inversion and displacement of gender binaries . |
| 30 | On the other hand , we might somewhat irreverently say that ex post settling up — in the form of a higher probability of honours ( knighthoods etc. ) than in private industry — provides some compensation . |