Example sentences of "you might [verb] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll just switch that television off and you might pay some attention . |
| 2 | You might make more profit with your proposal , but the security is less . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ You might regret this line of conversation tomorrow morning . ’ |
| 4 | It might seem long-winded , but dependent upon er if you get it right at the start with it , it might mean that one of the things we 're suggesting er you might say no , it 's not for me this , but you might think that job analysis is a good way of identifying training . |
| 5 | You might think that specification too simple . |
| 6 | You might do some press releases , information gathering , help at press receptions when extra hands are needed , prepare information kits and sit in with your boss at client and supplier meetings . |
| 7 | Is this is this an area where you think you might earn some money ? |
| 8 | You might anticipate that dust from space accounts for the mare infills , but this is not the case . |
| 9 | ‘ You might own this place , Miguel , and you might have the right to stand where you like on it , but you 'll never make me pleased to see you ever again . |
| 10 | You know given that life is as it is are you okay and he said yes so I went round the gardens and I came back to him and I had a friend coming for lunch and I thought this is ridiculous , I 'm going to have something to drink and I 'm going to have a meal so I made him an enormous great wad of cheese sandwiches and some apples and a piece of cake and some biscuits and a cup of tea and I went downstairs with the milk and the sugar and cup of tea and all this stuff and I went into the gardens and this poor child he looked very defensively a second time and I said well I thought you might like some breakfast and I wrapped the second lot up so if you 've nothing later on , why not put it in your pocket and eat later in the day and I did n't know whether you took milk or sugar , so I thought I 'd better just ask you and do you know I thought he was going to cry . |
| 11 | ‘ I thought you might like some home produce , ’ he said . |
| 12 | ‘ Sister 's at early supper , and Nurse Robins thought you might like some help , Nurse Dungarvan . |
| 13 | ‘ I thought you might like some brandy with your coffee , ’ said Rupert . |
| 14 | ‘ I thought you might like some tea , and a slice of the fruit-cake I found in a tin . ’ |
| 15 | If someone is resistant to change , for example , you might attribute this behaviour to an underlying fear of change . |
| 16 | You might use such money to buy or lease land , and so increase the holding you had inherited . |
| 17 | If you say , ‘ I keep thinking you might take some LSD and have a bad trip and get scrambled-egg brains and never be the same again and I really love you the way you are , ’ that 's fine because you 've confined yourself to what you know and what you feel . |
| 18 | As far as the food is concerned , you might consider some formula based on costs since this is widely understood and accepted . |
| 19 | ‘ You might enjoy that kind of thing , ’ he said with more than a touch of irritation , ‘ but I have other matters to see to , more important than shifting a few papers about . ’ |
| 20 | I thought you might need some help — or something , ’ she finished lamely . |
| 21 | Replace , for example , " in this essay I will tell you " with " this essay explains how … " , and " you might see this phrase as meaning … " with something like " this phrase may be interpreted as meaning … " |
| 22 | ‘ If you were , as you were hoping to be , her legal custodian , you would be in a very powerful position — and I have reason to fear that you might abuse that power . ’ |
| 23 | But forget any notion you might have that sisterhood land secretaries ) are powerful . |
| 24 | Your Royal Doulton , you might have some idea of how the er , different brands are doing . |
| 25 | ‘ You might have some difficulty convincing a judge of that . |
| 26 | I warned you I was n't going to be able to consider you and any doubts , hesitations or scruples you might have this time around , and I should have remembered that . |
| 27 | So you might have another week off yet . |
| 28 | Well perhaps you might have more contact with the nurse erm the district nurse . |
| 29 | ‘ You might have more money . ’ |
| 30 | So , a P E P is erm er introduced by er Mr Lawson , who you might remember some time ago had er a job as the Chancellor and is now working part-time in the City . |