Example sentences of "[pron] might [verb] [pers pn] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | I might think he 's a total shit , but I would never- ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I had asked my mother one evening to cut my cheese entire , so that I might toast it , ’ he told Tom Poole : |
| 5 | I might bother you with another one ( or two ! ) that I have completed since then . |
| 6 | Because I might affect you ? |
| 7 | ‘ If he 's a good boy I might make him Chairman of the board of Ferguson Foods ! |
| 8 | Once things are more advanced , I might hope you could include a leaflet in a future mailing . |
| 9 | I knew she was n't far offshore , but I did n't know anything about the set of currents off Winter Marsh , and if I just rowed into darkness I might miss her altogether , and be carried anywhere . |
| 10 | I was afraid I might miss you . |
| 11 | I might picture it in my imagination , but it was a precarious , ghostly structure . |
| 12 | ‘ WHAT worried me was that I might discover I could n't write at all . ’ |
| 13 | As I looked at her , I thought of her shrinking , like someone in a fairytale , and how one day I might hold her in the palm of my hand with her little voice squeaking commands at me as if she was a mouse I 'd picked up in the garden . |
| 14 | ‘ That reference to judges ; you were n't thinking I might drag you into court and do battle over Thomas ? ’ |
| 15 | The most I can hope for is that I might meet him over a pint and get him to be indiscreet-tell me if there is any dirt on Desmond Seymour-Strachey , for example . ’ |
| 16 | really but seeing as I know her erm I thought I might give her a ring . |
| 17 | For example , if a person came to me suffering from rounded shoulders I might give him or her an instruction to ‘ think of your shoulders going away from each other ’ . |
| 18 | If I see one that looks like it 's growing good , I might give it some extra feed and talk to it a bit . ’ |
| 19 | I might give you a name one day and the next day the vacancy would be filled . |
| 20 | Were you for instance more comfortable with a Mother fixation , I might give you a Catholic programme or a Russian Orthodox icon system . |
| 21 | Never know ; I might give you some more . " |
| 22 | Dangerous thing to say we 've already said , but preparing notes is lastly down to yourselves , I might give you a few tips on that . |
| 23 | I might give you a ring later and say can you have Aaron |
| 24 | I might give you one to do it next week . |
| 25 | She was walking her dog past the house just now and I thought I might bring her in . |
| 26 | Some weeks later my brother and I were passing through London , and I asked if I might bring him to see her . |
| 27 | I might bring you some flowers , even. , |
| 28 | I suppose , at this stage , I might bring you into our confidence to some extent . |
| 29 | We 're about due for one — I might bring you in on it . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ The table I write on , I say , exists , that is , I see and feel it ; and if I were out of my study I should say it existed , meaning thereby that if I was in my study I might perceive it . ’ |