Example sentences of "might [verb] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very often , during the assessment interview , the therapist might glance at the client 's completed inventories and adapt their line of questioning , or confirm a particular response . |
| 2 | But they 're so long winded erm you know , you you might sort of you might win at the end of the day , but the blues party will have stopped six months ago . |
| 3 | And the sporting Volcane version , while hot , is not the scorcher one might expect at the top of so accomplished a line-up . |
| 4 | At intervals an enemy horseman might appear at the edge of the village to gaze through a spyglass at the Dutch positions , but no attacks followed such reconnaissances , no skirmishers wormed their way through the fields , and no cannon crashed shell or roundshot at the fragile Dutch lines . |
| 5 | We strode cautiously across as if the old hag might appear at the mouth of the cave , uttering curses and dire prophecies , yet everything remained silent . |
| 6 | The Court of Appeal held that the rule against prior restraint would still operate , given that this defence of justifying the " common sting " of the allegations might succeed at the trial . |
| 7 | This ought not to present any problems , although it is probably a good idea to emphasise the importance of the child 's language and to try to reduce any anxiety or embarrassment that adults might feel at the prospect of being recorded . |
| 8 | Highlights : the atmosphere of Twilight , the trio 's cohesion in House of Jade and de Wilde 's rapid virtuoso fingerwork on Four in One ( even though the ghost of Monk might shudder at the plethora of notes and the lack of significant spaces ) . |
| 9 | The rest of the morning I might spend at the beach , in season , or in the park or a café , reading or catching up on my correspondence , or chatting to friends and acquaintances , as the whim took me . |
| 10 | It might look at the purpose of the rule , and imply a term which , though not amending the rule , supplemented it sufficiently to change its emphasis — perhaps by holding that it was not meant to apply after the introduction of the cash-settled contracts . |
| 11 | In the modern world , for instance , one might look at the development of the personification of Britannia as an index of the growing imperialism of Britain ( fig. 20 ) . |
| 12 | Here we might look at the question why Gandhi should lay so much stress on the interrelation of Truth and ahi sā . |
| 13 | I must therefore confine myself to expressing the hope that the Law Commission might look at the subject to see whether there is in fact any good reason now for maintaining a rule which operates to defeat contractually agreed arrangements between the parties ( of which all successors in title are aware ) and which is capable of producing such an extraordinary result as that in the present case . |
| 14 | In a topic on industrialisation one might look at the effect of industrialisation on a rural community without work . |
| 15 | And it is the exciting part of my job is to make these links work , start to build on them , and over our links in the city on the environmental and group with Tony Benn , that 's that 's doing a very good job , he is a platform for this , for each other , but I think there 's a lot more we can do locally erm within the city to build those links , and to work together for better answers for the city , and I hope that , on a practical level , one of the things that interested me was your grants team for local organisations , and I would like to think myself here today , we might look at the health authority , and try to join with them to make some erm practical contribution , particularly to those many carers , and groups of people who have problems , and we 're not all just professionals best able to put over during our normal nine-to-five or eight-to-eight days , we we can . |
| 16 | The gravity of Jupiter crushes its hydrogen so much that pressures of this magnitude might occur at the centre of the planet , forming metallic hydrogen which undergoes fusion thereby generating heat within it . |
| 17 | Had she warned her that there was every possibility they might meet at the Family Day ? |
| 18 | He might sink at the end of his eighth length in the pool and have to drop to a walk during his second mile , and shoot a fair proportion of his pellets off the target altogether , but his ride … his ride would have the spectators reeling with wonder . |
| 19 | ‘ I might sleep at the hospital though , ’ she said . |
| 20 | Her mind was preoccupied with what might happen at the end of her journey . |
| 21 | That argument was used for not giving heroin or an opiate intravenously because the patient might die at the end of the needle and the GP would be blamed . |
| 22 | That sounds like something that they might have at the end of term or something done by an adult working in a steelworks . |
| 23 | A company such as IBM Corp , currently down on its luck , might nibble at the bait or that Sun Microsystems Inc , feeling perhaps increasingly isolated , might seek new alignments . |
| 24 | Viewers nave enough to suppose that the interview is a means by which the electors might arrive at the truth would prefer the tried and trusted methods of the Brothers Dimbleby . |
| 25 | To take comfort in the simple truth about Hard Times : that however rotten things might seem at the moment , they will most assuredly seem altogether quaint fifty years from now . |
| 26 | OK , they might smile at the end of the game and say : ‘ Oh , well done ! ’ |
| 27 | Bracing himself , ready for whatever he might find at the bottom . |
| 28 | This system of learning is very different for some students and it might help at the beginning of the academic year to introduce them to it in a more measured way and look at points of pressure during the year and see if they can be released without lowering standards |
| 29 | You wo n't , you definitely wo n't ask at the end of the first not a hope in hell begin the second , cos you might ask at the end of the second appointment . |