Example sentences of "[pron] might [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He thought , I know what my idea of heaven would be , if by heaven we mean a place of bliss in which to pass eternity : a sanctuary where one might chain-smoke without impairment of breathing , destruction of the lungs or damage to the heart , light each fresh cigarette from the glowing butt of its predecessor , and drink ice-free but hundred-proof chilled vodka laced with two drops of angostura and a gill of newly opened Perrier endlessly , with increasing euphoria until a peak of joy and ease was reached but without any sub-sequent nausea or pain or dehydration or oblivion … |
| 32 | ROS : We might s well be dead . |
| 33 | To start unravelling stress ‘ from the bottom ’ they may invent or seek a range of tension-reducing activities , which we might group into two categories , those that relax softly and gently , and those that involve a more vigorous release . |
| 34 | Perhaps if we can arrive at some sort of specific amounts or some research in that direction , we might Mr Chairman , be able to take representations to government in a more positive way . |
| 35 | He said we might sort of say to you right we want fifty quid . |
| 36 | But Mr Westbrook adds : ‘ There are occasions when we might invoice a customer in Austrian schillings , bank it in a DM bank account and yet account for it in sterling . ’ |
| 37 | fit we might caravan . |
| 38 | If in the peg and socket arrangement the true priorities were the alignment and the contact then we might redesigns the whole thing so that it looked something like the drawing shown here . |
| 39 | There might be- ’ |
| 40 | I need to know that it 's necessary to remove all those trees I 've been told all sorts of things like they 're in pots and they 'll become pot bound they 're growing outwards they might fall down they might fracture mains they block off the er view of the church well I think they 're a nice asset in the city centre . |
| 41 | I think a lot of people are just , you know , I 'm not getting involved in them , they might belt me one , walk away , anyway you ca n't blame them , sad , people ca n't , people ca n't say it were you and your boy , you know , leave that , leave that alone or else I 'll go and get a policeman , the fear of them |
| 42 | ‘ I 'm a storyteller , and so I can show readers that people think in a certain way , and suggest to readers that under those circumstances they might thing in the same way . |
| 43 | ‘ They might hiv killed the snapper , ’ she said . |
| 44 | ‘ But they might hiv worn gloves . ’ |
| 45 | Cos er they might sort of book them up ahead or something . |
| 46 | People with mental disorder can not act like consumers in the ordinary sense of the word because of the nature of their problems — they can not , for example , forsake the NHS for another service as they might McDonalds for Burger King — but we can , nevertheless , devise ways of listening to what they have to say and ensuring their voices are heard . |
| 47 | Otherwise they might pressure me all the time . |
| 48 | It might fracture the earth 's crust , with cataclysmic results . |
| 49 | In addition to that , it might interest you to know that er in excess of a further one hundred and sixty hectares of land is in our U D deposit version , U D P proposed to be released on greenfield sites on the edge of the built up areas . |
| 50 | Our radical objector maintains about what we take to have been the causal circumstance that it might riot have been followed by the smell , and moreover that this would not have resulted from the absence of some further condition . |
| 51 | it might rain tomorrow do n't it ? |
| 52 | I think it 's worth identifying cos it might sort of alleviate this sort of problem |
| 53 | Naturally , if a small aircraft is overbooked consistently , it might rate early loading . |
| 54 | I have argued elsewhere that Pound was prepared to take instruction , as well as to give it ; that when he first came to London in 1908 , he was looking for masters to whom he might apprentice himself ; that he found them in the Irishman W.B. Yeats and the maverick Englishman Ford Madox Ford ( whose professionalism about writing still denies him in England the recognition that he gets abroad ) ; and ( so I have speculated , though I know it can not be proved ) that Pound sought the same relationship with another Englishman , Laurence Binyon , who was too cagey to go along with the idea . |
| 55 | So on 29 October 1955 Fisher recommended to the prime minister that Bell be asked to move to York because he was the biggest person in sight and — despite his age — ‘ he might tide over for five or six years ’ ; and that Ramsey be invited to go to London , because that huge see would ‘ respond to his commanding ability ’ . |
| 56 | when he went in mum started crying she said Lyn he ai n't coming back he ai n't coming back I said he might mum , he 's just might so anyway that was , at one o'clock he went down , quarter past five , ring , we kept saying can you ring and see if , and they rung said be out the operating theatre to tell us how far they 'd got and what was happening , he 's had four units of blood |
| 57 | He m he might sort of put an answer down like this and erm he 'll say , Well this this should come to something like seven teen point six times ten to the minus nought point four . |
| 58 | What might theology for its part have to say about the direction that world seems to be taking ? |
| 59 | What might Mrs Hopeful say to describe the reasons which prevent , or constrain , her from having her dream house and her luxury standard of living ? |
| 60 | What might Jesus have meant by the Parable of the Sower when he first told it ? |