Example sentences of "[pron] might [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For years I cut the grass — and living on water , grass grows at a prodigious and unnatural rate — and while doing so spent hundreds of man hours considering how I might stop it growing . |
| 2 | ‘ I might stop on a day or two . ’ |
| 3 | think I might stop now as there 's too , recording 's gon na be getting a bit difficult . |
| 4 | For example , I might think of a rather jolly idea for a cover story . |
| 5 | I might think the things you do are boring . |
| 6 | I might think , shit , I 'll have to pop to Safeway for a bag of flowers or a box of chocolates , ’ said a married 32-year-old store manager . |
| 7 | I mean I might think of doing something like that , but I 'd never actually dare to do it … |
| 8 | For example , if I measure a car traveling down the highway , I might think it had moved only one kilometer , but to someone on the sun , it would have moved about 1,800 kilometers , because the earth would have moved while the car was going down the road . |
| 9 | I might think he 's a total shit , but I would never- ’ |
| 10 | I do n't expect he could use a slide rule either , and you and I might think that using a slide rule would be one of the marks of an educated man , but I think things move on . |
| 11 | I have been too quick to condemn , where in time I might redeem . |
| 12 | Yesterday Splash said : ‘ I was going to the conference in Stornoway anyhow , so no doubt I might bump into him . |
| 13 | ‘ I had asked my mother one evening to cut my cheese entire , so that I might toast it , ’ he told Tom Poole : |
| 14 | I suppose if I lived in Middlesbrough I might vote for Stuart Bell , the Labour barrister who fought such a courageous battle on behalf of the families in the awful Cleveland affair . |
| 15 | He grinned at me in the gloom , and introduced himself as if I might recognize the name . |
| 16 | I might ignore all the warnings and even try to convince other people that lung cancer does not really exist . |
| 17 | Ron said that I should not go on to the track and kill myself because I might pull a hamstring . |
| 18 | You know , I sometimes feel as if you and I were connected by a string tying our two hearts together , and if you went to Ireland , I think that string might break and I might bleed to death . ’ |
| 19 | If it 's true that you were so keen to meet me I might satisfy your curiosity completely by reversing my rule to only date brunettes — ’ |
| 20 | How much do you think I might retain , in all fairness ? ’ |
| 21 | So I might fit in some of them then . |
| 22 | I replied that I was sorry to hear it but that I might return to him later , and enclosed a copy of Pursuit . |
| 23 | I 'm not planning to try so hard for it that I might break down . ’ |
| 24 | I might bother you with another one ( or two ! ) that I have completed since then . |
| 25 | I had hoped he and I might snuggle in the back of the car while his mate did the driving . |
| 26 | I might carry on a bit tomorrow . |
| 27 | I think I might carry on next year though like i in the same class |
| 28 | I might carry on . |
| 29 | Because I might affect you ? |
| 30 | I might want to take one of me girl-friends out there one of these nights . |