Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] might give " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or I might give the job to someone else . ’ |
| 2 | If you allow more than one or two days to elapse you may either lose your nerve , or find that you have missed your opportunity , or you might give the prospective employer the impression that you are not really interested . |
| 3 | Or it could be that they would be appropriate for the reception area in one of the factories , or we might give one to a distributor and say , here you are , this you know , put this in if you 've got the right sort of area and would like to use it for a bit , stick it in there . |
| 4 | There are two different ways in which the existence of an alternative remedy can affect the availability of judicial remedies : it might entirely preclude the award of a judicial remedy , or it might give the court a discretion to refuse a ( discretionary ) remedy if it thinks that the alternative remedy is adequate . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She does love her job , but the family are hoping that she might give up , at last — we 've had enough worry . |
| 7 | ‘ I thought at least to have taken Harry off your mind , ’ said Owen wretchedly , ‘ so that you might give all your heart to this . |
| 8 | He will be anxious to retain your custom so you might give him a try first . |
| 9 | The old woman turned back to her daughter , remarking belligerently , ‘ Kept her talking downstairs so you might give her a mean account of me , eh ? ’ |
| 10 | Cos that 's whatsername 's erm Kenny said that they might give you an injection . |
| 11 | Except it might give him security . |
| 12 | Friends considered him so depressed during this period that they were even beginning to think the unthinkable — that he might give up and turn his back on society and all its ills , and do what he would have really chosen to do with his life : be a country squire . |
| 13 | And we must remember our interest in Livesey is only that he might give us a lead to the young girl 's killer . ’ |
| 14 | Kurchatov visited Harwell and suggested that he might give a lecture on Soviet work into thermonuclear reactions in gas discharges . |
| 15 | The Divisional Court ordered that the applicant 's motion be allowed for a declaration that before asking questions relating to an offence with which a person under investigation had been charged the Director of the Serious Fraud Office had to inform that person that he was not obliged to answer such questions but that , if they were answered , what was said might only be used in evidence against that person where he was charged with knowingly or recklessly making a false or misleading statement or where the answer was inconsistent with any evidence that he might give at a later criminal trial . |
| 16 | Hope was trembling and afraid that he might give too much away . |
| 17 | So he 's got to be careful , and he 's worried that he might give himself away by some tiny flicker of expression . |
| 18 | This made it all the harder for the mother to treat the ailing youngster and she might give up on the treatment for this reason . |
| 19 | The new woman who wanted to be called mother put a stack of blouses and skirts out for me , like you might give milk to a stray cat . |
| 20 | I wonder if you might give Becky a hand to sort it out while you 're here ? |
| 21 | ‘ I can leaf through them on the train , and they might give me something to go on . ’ |
| 22 | One moment of confusion and he might give someone away , or incriminate himself . |
| 23 | Trace it to its source and it might give us a rough idea of the way we came in — which might give us a rough idea of south , for further referee . |
| 24 | But you might give them the space to find one for themselves . ’ |
| 25 | That would probably do little to bring so-called advances on royalties back to a more sensible level , but it might give the publisher some added stability , and therefore a greater incentive to put sustained effort into an author 's career . |
| 26 | If we are intended for great ends , we are called to great hazards ; and , whereas we are given absolute certainty in nothing , we must in all things choose between doubt and inactivity , and the conviction that we are under the eye of One who , for whatever reason , exercises us with the less evidence when He might give us the greater . |
| 27 | Though it might give them ideas , ’ he added wistfully . |