Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] might [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe I 'll get there one day , or I might take a day trip to EuroDisney sometime in the summer months . |
| 2 | You could receive a lot of heavy bills which you had not anticipated , or you might suffer a car accident and find that the other person is not insured , or if your spouse has died you may be left with debts that you were unaware of . |
| 3 | You might decide to offer Work Experience to pupils to give them a taste of working life while they are still at school , or you might offer a teacher a secondment to industry . |
| 4 | There are areas that are just what they want things passed on the hoof. left , right and centre when anyone else outside these areas wants it we 're told no money , no capital , ca n't be spent this year , wipe it off and I think you should be very careful or you might have a backlash where you least want it . |
| 5 | I want to be told that the house-martins are nesting or you might see a badger if you 're lucky . |
| 6 | This is a good exercise to practise if you are sitting in a restaurant or on a train journey — but do n't let your chosen subject catch you staring or you might get a reaction you had n't bargained for ! |
| 7 | On the Corniche we asked a traffic policeman in a white booth where we might find a hotel . |
| 8 | So they might design their own tattoo or they might design a fairground erm frontage , based on what they 've seen years ago |
| 9 | Claims to leadership of national antislavery opinion also involved hopes of influencing British government policy where it might make a difference — for example , in negotiations over the continuing problem of slave trade suppression and on particular issues such as American fugitive slaves in British territories or terms for British recognition of the independence of Texas . |
| 10 | Or it might take a weekend depending . |
| 11 | He suggested that I might give a dinner to the leading newspaper editors and proprietors , when he could make some statement calculated to neutralise some of the undoubted venom that was then directed at him . |
| 12 | I have worked , I have exhausted myself day in day out , for years , and nobody has ever considered my age or health , it never entered my mother 's head that I might welcome a break , new surroundings , a chance to be waited on . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm keeping my fingers crossed that I might get a bit of it to strengthen the squad . ’ |
| 14 | A curate at St Luke 's , an older man from the West Indies , almost persuaded my parents to let me go out to Codrington College in the West Indies , but my headmaster was firm against this , expressing the hope that I might get a scholarship to an English university . |
| 15 | ‘ It did n't occur to you that I might have a lot on my mind ? |
| 16 | I feel that I might prove a hindrance rather than a help . ’ |
| 17 | We were invited to stay with friends living in Northern Burgundy , and to visit a painting school at La Buia , in Umbria , with the idea that I might take a class there in May 1993. there was some discussion , earlier in the year , of another in Venice , and we will break our journey there , for breakfast , next week . |
| 18 | It never occurred to me that I might become a poet — partly because there were no books in the damp little prefab where we lived . |
| 19 | She says she does get worried that she might miss a change . |
| 20 | Did he , then , believe that she might present a threat to Rob 's engagement — to a girl he liked and approved of ? |
| 21 | ‘ But do n't start getting any ideas that she might throw a fit of jealousy . |
| 22 | The anti-smoking campaigner — who played JR — wrote to the former premier to say many Americans were dismayed that she might become a consultant . |
| 23 | Well it makes you feel that you might do a bit of work with something |
| 24 | Mr Beckenham — I mean , Lord Dacre — wanted you to have the security of your home so that you might have a choice about your future . ’ |
| 25 | I began to see that you might have a grain of truth lurking there somewhere , and the more I thought about it the more it made sense . |
| 26 | They just do n't actually have that information , a lot of small local groups , and I think maybe the C B S could work with the Engineers department in future years and try to get to those groups , because I 'm sure a lot of them , actually if they were given the opportunity in time to get in , that , that you might have a lot of people applying for flag and whatever than you do now . |
| 27 | But , so she might stand a chance . |
| 28 | It 's happening in major cities , local groups are getting involved , so you might find a village firm somewhere is organising a sponsored walk . |
| 29 | Or again , considering ( 4 ) , there is no fixed length for turns in conversation , and sometimes one participant holds the floor for some time ; yet although we might call a turn of four minutes part of a conversation , we would consider conversation to have ceased if someone talked for an hour and a half . |
| 30 | How much more quickly does my hon. Friend think that we might achieve a balance between exports and imports when we introduce a minimum wage , increase taxes on investment , increase personal taxes and allow the trade unions to ride rough shod once again ? |