Example sentences of "[pron] might [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Er we have looked to supplement national e information by our local knowledge specifically I might instance one er where we have made a survey of the institutions which is one source of er possible difference between er people looking at the situation locally and those from further afield . |
| 2 | so I might chance it |
| 3 | Yes sir , on the erm first part erm in in clarification if I might sir the erm question of er briefing the Chairman is in fact dealt with in paragraph forty seven of annex C of P P G twelve although I 'm grateful for information on paragraph forty eight , erm and it says amongst other things that er there shall be a briefing and that briefing , the contents of that briefing shall be made public can I press the er spokesman for the environment committee to tell us er why in fact that was n't done and whether he thinks there can be prop proper public debate if it is n't done . |
| 4 | Remember how nasty it was the last time you were sick ? ’ or ‘ Do n't leave your doll at the top of the stairs , because someone might trip over it and fall to the bottom . |
| 5 | Dougal was worried that someone might sec it ; but Lorton thought that unlikely . |
| 6 | In truth , the task was less daunting than it could have been , partly because a considerable number of our sportspersons did not ( Gasp ! ) regularly purchase the magazine and were therefore unlikely to spot the odd line which might interest m'learned friends . |
| 7 | Satisfied that it contained nothing which might distress the girl , she read aloud : |
| 8 | which might sort of |
| 9 | This was the place where he had almost bowled Anna over many months before and where he enjoyed riding the horse at breakneck speed , disregarding anyone else who might chance to be on the path . |
| 10 | ‘ There are now about 500 people alive , ’ says Sotheby 's chief executive officer , Michael Ainslie , ‘ who might fork out more than $25 million for a work of art . ’ |
| 11 | He had gone out of her life suddenly and without explanation and try as she might Theresa simply could not get over losing him . |
| 12 | She had five whole days to go yet before she might chance to see Vendelin Gajdusek , she mused and , suddenly fired with enthusiasm , and mobile , she toyed with the idea of taking a look at the other spa towns — if they were not too far distant . |
| 13 | Power did count in the end , though , for try as she might Mills could not contain the might of Italy 's Emanuela Pierantozzi , the European champion , who stood a head taller and reached over with a powerful grip . |
| 14 | Her head did not precisely ache , but it felt hollow and somehow precarious ; and she found it hard to make her muscles work so that she felt as though she might trip over her own feet or walk into the furniture . |
| 15 | yeah like , not being nasty but Hannah to look at her you think you 'd think , oh you know she might sort of bit bit pongy ! |
| 16 | Yeah but she might sort of like expose herself but is she vulgar ? |
| 17 | You 're still working your strategy carefully to move down the field , using your back row , using your tight scrummage skills , using your three-quarters to gain some ground , and eventually you might outmanoeuvre the opposition defence and score . |
| 18 | You might ha–re thought from the title that it would be a good gangster . |
| 19 | Try to keep your dog walking in a straight line , so that it does not pull across you to reach another dog , because otherwise you might trip over the leash . |
| 20 | You might trip off and go underneath it . |
| 21 | And then you could put arrows round the outside , for comments that you might conversation , erm , conversation A and B , if you 're doing two . |
| 22 | You have to keep looking , unless you have mirrors or something you might mirrors on it . |
| 23 | But they 're so long winded erm you know , you you might sort of you might win at the end of the day , but the blues party will have stopped six months ago . |
| 24 | And I mean in that way you might sort of really want to go and look at one of these erm er sort of er rather awful inner city areas . |
| 25 | Before we before my mam had the house in Road that was just what you might sort of still call it . |
| 26 | In effect you , you , you , you , you 've got the church , you 've got erm you , you might sort of move from collaborators with the Japanese to collaborators with the Kuomintang , I E the counter-revolutionaries . |
| 27 | You might sort of like bark . |
| 28 | One would like very often to have more erm people involved in decision making , but they simply do n't have the time to inform themselves and one or two experiments in the kind of democracy you might Brian might have had in mind , came to horrible grief where decisions were taken simply uninformed and where the small number of people present who were informed were n't able to persuade the majority and the history of education is littered with them most unfortunate examples of this . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's not quite as romantic as you might image ’ , he explains . |
| 30 | You might bead : " In case of cholera please carry the bearer of this card to Dr Dunstaple " … the name of Dr McNab being carefully scratched out and that of Dr Dunstaple substituted . |