Example sentences of "might [verb] up [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He might remain up here indefinitely without anyone noticing his feeble signals ! |
| 2 | This conveyed almost the speaking tone of the writer , as he might glance up impishly from one of his colloquies with the carpet . |
| 3 | It was the path from my cottage , and I remembered the little cove called Halfway House , a cove where in any weather a boat might tie up safely and its owner make his way round to Taigh na Tuir . |
| 4 | The meeting heard outline proposals by President Mikhail Gorbachev for a new union treaty , which would transform the Soviet Union into a " union of sovereign states " in which some republics might continue to give up many powers to the centre , as in the current federal structure , while others might give up virtually none , as in a confederation . |
| 5 | and while I started off thinking I might finish up better than I started |
| 6 | well if they ring up tomorrow , erm one bloke says he might ring up tomorrow , one said she 'll , she 'll come round at the weekend and another bloke said |
| 7 | ‘ Because you 're afraid that , jobless , I might set up home with Travis ! ’ she exploded spiritedly . |
| 8 | What else was plain , though , was that she had wasted her time in trying to turn the tables on Naylor Massingham by hinting that , jobless , she might set up home with Travis . |
| 9 | The fire spread through her limbs , nerve-ends felt red-hot , and still the heat increased until she felt as if she might burn up completely . |
| 10 | For there is always their second job and a taxing official post might take up too much time and energy . |
| 11 | but then I thought it might take up too much space . |
| 12 | Though the row might flare up again , American and European trade officials have established some sort of rapport . |
| 13 | You never know , I might end up there again some time . |
| 14 | You might go up there and er I du n no you what 's what 's a good way of getting myself seen when I 'm going out running at night and things like that you know and they 'll give you advice and they 'll say well there 's this you can use or that |
| 15 | He might go up there now . |
| 16 | Derek said he might come up tonight . |
| 17 | Now trying to think of a situation where you might come up here and have no nerves whatsoever . |
| 18 | So my reading of the evidence so far is that they did n't want a body lying around on the river bed , where it might come up sometime , or perhaps even be found by divers , but they wanted him carried under water well out to sea . " |
| 19 | but erm , does n't have they only had the white ones , so I think I might go to Waitrose , not Waitrose , erm , might get up early tomorrow and go to erm , what 's it called , erm , Sainsburys , yeah . |
| 20 | In the past , people might settle up annually with fishmongers , blacksmiths , dressmakers , and so forth . |
| 21 | She was so constantly braced , her will so stiff from desire , that she could not sleep at nights ; she feared that if she fell asleep she might lose her determination and her faith , might wake up alone in her narrow bed , in the small back bedroom , overlooking the small square garden , backing onto the next small square garden , where for so many years she had lain and dreamed her subversive dreams . |
| 22 | I think the giants might wake up quite soon . |