Example sentences of "think [indef pn] might " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The glass around the dock is of course bullet proof because it was thought somebody might try and shoot them . |
| 2 | She thought someone might ask her questions , but she was saved by the arrival of their director . |
| 3 | I thought someone might get a couple of black eyes or something . |
| 4 | When he thought one might be possible , he was immensely sentimental , would give up everything for a lover ; yet it was his own exigence that made it difficult for anyone to live up to him , to match his quick apprehension , his wide range of interests , the fervour with which he experienced everything . |
| 5 | ‘ I thought something might have stuck in your mind . |
| 6 | I lost my temper ; I thought something might have happened to you , that was all . |
| 7 | No no I , I do n't know , I sort of thought something might 've happened . |
| 8 | In fact , that afternoon , Miranda had been worried by the swift rise in share price ; she had asked Adam whether he thought anyone might be buying with a view to a takeover bid . |
| 9 | ‘ Thank you … and you know , I think someone might have slipped something in my drink . ’ |
| 10 | I think something might now that the cricketers and the rugby players are going to South Africa . |
| 11 | And I think one might go on to argue that far from saving labour it creates it — that its function is to give one the task of understanding it . |
| 12 | you perhaps have n't got the same degree of landlord exploitation , you might , I think one might argue from , from what we said earlier that in the north you 've got a s a slightly more paternalistic landlord , it 's , it , there 's less , less absentee landlordism landlords were more likely to have been behaving within the confines of moral economy would n't , would n't have been tt erm reducing rents , it was done on a much more , more personal sort of scale . |