Example sentences of "[pers pn] might [adv] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a pleasing thought , that I might soon be moving in more exalted circles . |
| 2 | If I did n't have that advantage , I might easily be extremely suspicious of what was going on and think that much of the sort of thing they 're used to especially at primary school was not maths at all but was playing around with bits of string and round cylinders and erm certainly nothing like I remember doing . |
| 3 | If I set it to the same frequency as the only Mark I Super C64 in existence , I might just be able to contact an old friend of ours . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I wo n't promise anything , ’ she said following him , ‘ I 've never tackled a job like it before but I might just be able to make a built-up boot for you . ’ |
| 5 | I said I was rather tied up at the school over most week-ends ; though the half-term holiday was the week-end after next and I might just be in Athens then — but I could n't be sure . |
| 6 | ‘ The way I feel about you right now , I might just be tempted to snap your bones into little pieces . ’ |
| 7 | I might just be able to win over the Review Board . |
| 8 | I might just be that eency , weency bit lazy . |
| 9 | It was n't exactly my fault , but I was totally involved , and I might just be able to do something about it , with the skull of the ancient hound , the Factory 's help and a little luck . |
| 10 | There were fifteen minutes to opening time , which meant I might just be able to head Duncan the Drunken off at the pass . |
| 11 | ‘ I think I might just be able to totter from chair to chair , ’ she said , smiling sweetly at him . |
| 12 | no , I wo n't , no I just get these for the kids , I might just be tempted to go in there and have a look though , did you eat all your others ? |
| 13 | I might even be sent to prison . |
| 14 | I might even be able to think of a n interesting way to make a larger profit that I would by tamely handing or over the Fraxillians . |
| 15 | The prospect of escape was beguiling ; I might even be able to crawl in beside Helen for an hour . |
| 16 | Now I miss the tie with Portugal at Ibrox next month , and there 's a hint that I might even be out against Italy in November . |
| 17 | I might even be younger than Gesner . |
| 18 | I remember that my chest swelled with pride the day Mrs Smelley , who owned a boarding house in the Commercial Road , told me that I was a chip off the old block and that in her opinion one day I might even be as good as my Granpa . |
| 19 | Well fifty pence a year , I think I might even be able to afford to belong to it . |
| 20 | I lo , I might even be Romeo . |
| 21 | In his usual way , as soon as the film started , George begin to give me a run down on the technical assets I might otherwise be missing . |
| 22 | I had the club already going , was dealing with mainly young people , and as you will know young people 's taste tends to vary quite considerably and very quickly , so I might well be very successful for so long and then if suddenly taste changed and I had n't got the ability to change with the times I realized that it would be rather precarious , so I needed a second string to my bow . |
| 23 | I was terrified that , while he had taken a branch off the piste towards the town , I might now be heading towards Mali , a waterless eight hundred miles away . |
| 24 | I might conceivably be interested merely in a hypothetical situation , trying to decide , say , what consequences would follow if p were true , without wishing to commit myself one way or the other ( although , as will be shown later on , one can not coherently posit the possibility of p being true except with regard to possible truth claims that might be made in respect of it ) . |
| 25 | What had happened to us could not , I thought , have been due entirely to education — not even to the idea that girls develop more quickly than boys to a certain point and then slow down ; but as I still clung loyally to my little world where all clergymen were good , all solicitors honest , and all philosophers and experts different from ordinary people and unquestionably right , I struggled hard against any idea that I might still be wiser than Bertrand Russell in some respects . |
| 26 | United visit Villa Park , and Atkinson wistfully linked the past with the present when he said : ‘ If I 'd had Dean Saunders at United , we would have won the Championship and I might still be manager of Manchester United . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I think the first clue I had that I might still be on the team was when your mum pitched up to inspect the body . ’ |
| 28 | He had n't yet said who ‘ they ’ were , but Robert had a fairly good idea that some of them might well be unemployed young men pretending to be Muslims in order to worm their way into jobs that should have been occupied by the Faithful . |
| 29 | Mercifully the Long Island Expressway , which Mrs Meadows had warned them might well be one long traffic jam , was proving to be relatively uncrowded . |
| 30 | His violence towards them might even be deemed no more than a Satanic desire to get them used to the notion of reigning in Hell rather than serving in Heaven . |