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Example sentences of "[pers pn] might [vb infin] [prep] [be] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	I might hope to be a better grandfather than I 'd been a father . ’
2	I might need to be set up and ready to go , with up to £600 to spend .
3	‘ I was beginning to think I might have to be the one to raise the question , ’ she returned demurely .
4	She was simply reminding Jaq of how she might continue to be useful .
5	She thought it outrageous that he should even think she might want to be friends in the circumstances .
6	" I just think that she might prove to be somewhat difficult to dispose of … oh , do n't look so surprised .
7	You might want to be able to sort of get to their flat very quickly .
8	Now , er , I do n't know er why you might want to be unlisted , ex-directory , not in the book .
9	I had not done so before merely because I had not thought of them in this context ; I had supposed that you might prefer to be at some slight remove from the nefarious influences of the department …
10	Okay , so er what have we got there erm use supports use of support yeah material another thing you might think about is time .
11	The Col d'Osquich is lucky you might think to be called .
12	Nor can he always rely on the help of those who in any other industry or service you might expect to be on his side .
13	And if the principle works with man as well , then by spending your whole life in a cruising aircraft you might live to be a hundred .
14	If you can help PLEASE tick the jobs you feel you might like to be involved with :
15	If you can help PLEASE tick the jobs you feel you might like to be involved with :
16	person you might like to be but actually unfortunately are n't .
17	Belinda if we can start with you more or less erm I heard the other day that you 're half thinking that you might like to be a nurse ?
18	Erm , and one thing that you might worry about is , okay , once I get up there , how do I get back down again ?
19	Yeah there 's one little minor adjustment that you y you might be aware you might need to be aware of .
20	Give somebody a lift and take cash for it and we 've got you , so you might have to be very careful who you travel with , if you get my drift . ’
21	You might have to be more clear about what you 're specifically asking for rather than use handles titles .
22	Do n't know if you 'll see it over there , I think you might have to be in the light .
23	I say you might — because of course I can not speak with any certainty upon that point — as you might wish to be granted .
24	You might try to be a little more adventurous and make patterns and , for example , cut egg sandwiches in the shape of an egg .
25	I I ca n't comment on on comments that you are referencing , however I will say that in Maryland er we displaced an incumbent vendor who had been there a long time , er that vendor was a bit upset as you might imagine with being displaced as a vendor , and in Maryland we had a situation that kind of evolved into the same kind of political row you would expect when a company loses a long time business .
26	We might turn away from our own particular church — we might go through a period of not knowing what we believe in — we might change from being a Catholic to a Buddhist or from a Jehovah 's Witness to an Anglican ; but , no matter how many times we reject religion , we know it will never reject us .
27	'Course , we might live to be ninety .
28	But once we add this functional criterion we create a different problem : sometimes non-governmental bodies perform functions which we might consider to be governmental ( or ‘ public ’ ) in nature ( or , in other words , most appropriately conducted by government ) .
29	In fact , we might have to be reminded that it came from a pig at all .
30	Well if they owe us money and stuff like that , we might have to be going to court in the end with it but the only trouble is , we 're losing that much bloody time taking a day off and going down there !