Example sentences of "it might [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might make our meeting next week easier if we have at least got part way through your the suggestions are n't . |
| 2 | Next refused to comment on reports that it might abandon its hardware business altogether . |
| 3 | Broomhead had at first considered giving the woman a salutation from his vast treasury of filthy language when she approached him , but he realised that it might damage his rather good reputation . |
| 4 | Well her being human , she thought it might damage our digestive system . |
| 5 | I was sitting in my office smoking one of James 's cigarettes — not the best thing , perhaps , for the queasiness I was still feeling , but I hoped it might calm my juddering nerves — when a poked page-boy knocked on my door and said the Old Man wanted to see me in his suite . |
| 6 | The Duke , aware that the incumbent armourer was dead , used his interest with the Board of Ordnance , pointing out that ‘ it might serve my interest in the town of Stirling ’ . |
| 7 | It would be hard to bear and she dreaded such a letter because it might disturb her wonderful composure . |
| 8 | So it might disturb their neighbourhood , you know , so they were n't very impressed with his ideas . |
| 9 | But folk here were eager to let you into their neighbour 's secrets , particularly if they thought it might distract your attention from their own . |
| 10 | ‘ I thought it might improve your disposition , ’ he said outrageously . |
| 11 | In the past , the Americans opposed the idea of a Palestinian state : there was not enough room , they said ; and , given independence , the people in it might break their promise to be nice to Israel . |
| 12 | ‘ It might hurt our Lord 's feelings . |
| 13 | Clare 's divorce petition would not be heard until July ; she had been warned by her solicitor not to be seen alone with a man right now , or it might affect her petition and the custody of her son . |
| 14 | I thought it might affect my career , they might just chuck me out . ’ |
| 15 | In practice you look at all the alternatives and examine each in turn to see how it might affect your business . |
| 16 | But I 'm sure that even he would n't want you to starve ; it might affect your output , ’ he laughed . |
| 17 | And according to Jacqui , the reason for this must be Steen 's fear of her being associated with him in the Sally Nash case because it might affect his chances of a knighthood . |
| 18 | ‘ I offered you brandy because I thought it might steady your nerves . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I 'd rather keep Horan and Little together but if Lloyd is a raging success against Neath , it might change our thinking . ’ |
| 20 | Finance did not much affect the organisation of businesses , though it might influence their policy . |
| 21 | Corbett gave it to him , knowing it might hasten his end . |
| 22 | I 've saved you once , and I will again , but if anything happens tonight , it might mean my death . ’ |
| 23 | If The Lord of the Rings should approach too close to ‘ Gospel-truth ’ , to the Christian myth in which Tolkien himself believed , it might forfeit its status as a story and become at worst a blasphemy , an ‘ Apocryphal gospel ’ , at best a dull allegory rehearsing in admittedly novel form what everyone ought to know already . |
| 24 | During his conversations with Marcus , when they did take place , Ludens had the impression that Marcus was pursuing a consecutive line of thought , sections of which were randomly surfacing for Ludens 's benefit , or even for Marcus 's benefit , at moments when Marcus felt it might clarify his ideas to verbalise them aloud , and even to listen to a response . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's only because it might hamper my investigations that I do n't invite you to tell Dysart about his wife 's in fidelity tomorrow . |
| 26 | Craftily she added , ‘ It might cramp your style where this Michele Diomede is concerned . ’ |
| 27 | It might increase our intellect , er our I Q might go up but we 're still sinners ! |
| 28 | There must be a total retrieval now , the one good thing about which was that it might banish his dreams . |
| 29 | If you marry a woman with a stain on her name , even though it 's not her fault , it might spoil your chances of success in life . |
| 30 | Yeah , but I mean if it , if it erm if it means that that it might spoil your entry into it , it 's such a sa small thing is n't it ? |