Example sentences of "if [pers pn] might [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once again his arm , brown and corded , swept silencingly towards the sea and the mountains and the south , as if I might not have properly appreciated it . |
| 2 | The dazed expression had almost left her face and I wondered if she might not have had a slight stroke when Celia abandoned her , and was now recovering . |
| 3 | I was rather wondering if we might not arrange a meeting . |
| 4 | I had wondered if we might not try something similar . |
| 5 | ‘ I ask myself every hour now if we might not have held him and still drawn off well enough if I had but kept a better watch on the road to Shrewsbury . |
| 6 | We all know why we are there , But there is a constant control and you go to bed not knowing if they might not come for you in the night . |
| 7 | She even wondered if it might not have been Mandy 's laughter-filled anecdotes about summers at the lodge that had coaxed this deep ache of loss within her to the surface of her consciousness . |
| 8 | I wondered if he might not have some spontaneous feeling in my defence . |
| 9 | So that the next time a shop assistant ( particularly one who looks as if he might not know what day of the week it is ) asks how Sir or Madam will be paying they 'll say ‘ Cash ’ and make quite sure they rip up the receipt as they leave . |