Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun prp] might " in BNC.
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| 1 | Being treed by the great wonder-rabbi Shmuel ben Issachar might be written off as an occupational hazard ; being trapped — on an assignment officially aborted-by an undead amateur is unforgivable . |
| 2 | Les Robinson is getting a recall … and Jon Narbett might find a place too … |
| 3 | Then , some way further on , in a feature of self-congratulation and vicarious identification , the svelte couple whose lifestyle and dinner party habits were being extolled in full double page ( low cholesterol ) spread colour for emulation by fellow believers , were clearly seen in full frontal and blatant use of the Kiwi — plus ça change , as Clarence Birdseye might have said . |
| 4 | The Colonel 's Lady and Judy O'Grady might be sisters under their skins , but they went to different shops . |
| 5 | And he does not like to be reminded of the gaffes he made as deputy chairman — branding the young unemployed as workshy , or musing on Radio Ulster whether Ian Paisley might like to be prime minister of a united Ireland . |
| 6 | For example , the historian who is studying a parish in the Sussex Weald might get more enlightenment from an analysis of the economy and social structure of a wood-pasture community in the Forest of Arden than from a comparable study of a nearby parish on the South Downs , which might offer some rewarding contrasts but few points of similarity . |
| 7 | Marianne McCall might be hiding her true colours from the men , but it seemed she felt no need to do the same where Shae was concerned . |
| 8 | She wandered back into the small sitting-room with her mug of tea , put it down on the polished surface of a table but removed it hastily in case it left a tell-tale ring which S. Kettering might complain about in the future . |
| 9 | It was suggested that Ken Lawson might be asked to write an article on Group Relations and that a report might be given of a course in Grangemouth on ‘ Creative Listening ’ . |
| 10 | Matilda had never once stopped to think about where Miss Honey might be living . |
| 11 | At this stage , David Stirling might perhaps have allowed himself a moment or two of self-congratulation . |
| 12 | Burden said Mrs. Fanshawe might just recall why her husband 's Jaguar had skidded and overturned on the empty fast lane of the twin track road , but he doubted it . |
| 13 | The dossier outlining how Richard Branson might conquer the North Atlantic air-routes arrived the next day . |
| 14 | Adam Ant and Duran Duran might have worn just as much greasepaint and hairspray , but they were post-punk dandies in leather trousers , whose heterosexuality was never open to question ( ie they grabbed their crotches ) . |
| 15 | The courtyard behind was now a restaurant , and had a tree which Jean Rhys might have remembered . |
| 16 | Linda Paterson might be looking . |
| 17 | It is the kind of American small town that Steven Spielberg might have invented in one of his more whimsical moods . |
| 18 | The question she was avoiding was whether Miss Fergusson might not have been the instrument of her own precipitation , in order to achieve or confirm whatever it was she wanted to achieve or confirm . |
| 19 | The merest blemish on a Rolls Royce might render it unmerchantable whereas it might not on a humbler car . |
| 20 | A month in the Muelle Deportiva at Las Palmas might seem excessive , but Eevin 's crew , brothers Trevor and Gary Marshall , David McKnight , Jude Docherty and Gary Hill busied themselves cultivating Eevin 's barnacles and partying . |
| 21 | David Owen might be buying membership soon . |
| 22 | I can understand why Neil Kinnock might think so , but I am more optimistic . |
| 23 | Although Neil Kinnock might disagree about who had colonized whom , the fact was that between 1984 and 1987 relations between left-wing urban Labour councils and the lesbian and gay movement became very close . |
| 24 | Rupert Murdoch 's mass circulation tabloid stooped to a new level of vicious scaremongering when it seemed that Neil Kinnock might just succeed in leading Labour back into government . |
| 25 | Mr Wakerley suggested Miss Dart might have tried to escape , or she may have screamed , or she possibly saw Sams undisguised and had to be killed . |
| 26 | But while the French did not feel encouraged to emigrate in large numbers , the 50,000 inhabitants of New France moved inland much more boldly than the Abbé Prevost might have made one expect . |
| 27 | Blanche respired steadily to allow the tension to subside and asked Lancaster why David Parkin might want to murder his wife . |
| 28 | Friend Connon might even turn up to keep you company . |
| 29 | Firstly , Dustin is hidden under a folding bed which he is repairing in readiness for his first sexual experience , and then he is off-camera , talking to his parents , in the one comic-satiric scene that Woody Allen might not have disowned . |
| 30 | But as the Olympic flame died last night , there was every sign that David Coleman might hand on the BBC baton . |