Example sentences of "might [vb infin] [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | Michael and I were both very nervous , for even at this stage something might arise which could mean that the adoption would not go through . |
| 2 | Yet if it were not for the eclipses of May , June and November , Pisceans might think they could get off comparatively lightly . |
| 3 | If anybody can help me help me to get it up to three figures again personal contact could be er very useful in these cases if you come across anybody who you might think we could interest . |
| 4 | But I can see how you might think you could gain an advantage — me having problems with the local police while you work out a way to come up smelling sweet . |
| 5 | Whittam Smith might feel he could achieve profits faster in a three-cornered race . |
| 6 | Either it might see what could be done within the area which Kant had left to it ; or it might ask whether there might not after all be rather more to be said about the way in which genuine knowledge of God is made possible . |
| 7 | Once things are more advanced , I might hope you could include a leaflet in a future mailing . |
| 8 | There 's an assumption by some politicians that just because there is this immense change taking place in Eastern Europe , that this is victory for Western capitalism erm , I think there might be some of who might be a bit cautious about that victory and might believe that er there is still much that needs to be shared and understood and it is n't as simple as perhaps some political figures might suggest it could be . |
| 9 | ‘ WHAT worried me was that I might discover I could n't write at all . ’ |
| 10 | Perhaps , if she made herself useful , he might decide she could stay — for a while at least , just until she got something else sorted out . |
| 11 | She would n't rush back — that might imply she could n't wait to be with him again — but on the other hand she did n't want to leave it too long ; there were plenty of women , Melissa included , she had noticed , who had had their limpet-like eyes firmly glued to his face . |
| 12 | You might say you could measure its position to ten decimal places , but you could always then measure it to eleven and predict a completely different result ; all the difference between a whirlwind which knocked down someone 's house and a single molecule of oxygen disappearing up their nose . |