Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] might [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ state of war ’ declaration clouded what might otherwise have been a clear-cut case of American aggression and gave the White House the makings of a case under international law . |
| 2 | Craigbarnet had been supported , at considerable inconvenience , by the Montrose interest , mainly in order to please the head of the Stirling family , Stirling of Keir , who was a relative of the Duke of Montrose , but no sooner was Craigbarnet out of the running than another potentially explosive dispute arose which might well have set the Duke of Montrose at variance with Lord Elphinstone or another valuable ally , Dundas of Lethem . |
| 3 | By getting out of the bargain books field now , he believed he might well be ‘ ahead of the game ’ , just as he had been when he set up the company . |
| 4 | I reckoned I might still escape detection , however , if I ran on my toes in a sort of hearty limbering up exercise . |
| 5 | I guessed you might just be back from Finland . ’ |
| 6 | She had so much wanted to be fancied , it seemed a cruel blow to think that if it ever happened it might only be by someone as awful as Sean Walsh . |
| 7 | The more experienced dealers guessed it might paradoxically refer to a disaster on the horizon , but kept their thoughts from clients . |
| 8 | British playwright John Arden ( he of Sergeant Musgrave 's Dance ) accepted the Obie on Henry Livings 's behalf , though , commented Livings , ‘ In his mild way John hinted I might well not have enjoyed the way it was done in New York , but I never argue with box-office returns . ’ |
| 9 | She reconsidered his offer of help and reluctantly decided she might just have to accept it . |
| 10 | The last thing she could afford to do was cry , because if she started she might never stop . |
| 11 | She stood quivering in his grasp , terrified he might somehow guess what she had been thinking . |
| 12 | There were fifteen minutes to opening time , which meant I might just be able to head Duncan the Drunken off at the pass . |
| 13 | I 've got some catching up to do as well , but I thought I might just grab an hour , maybe late this afternoon when everything 's relatively quiet . |
| 14 | I felt so wretched , because I thought I might never see you again . |
| 15 | She too was a comparatively unknown artiste , and had not wished to turn the part down , since she feared she might never obtain another such opportunity . |
| 16 | DELIGHTED transplant girl Laura Davies burst into song to celebrate a journey her parents feared she might never make yesterday . |
| 17 | The boy would spend a few weeks at a time with his father and when Sheila one day came to collect Scott , she mentioned that she felt she might well marry again . |
| 18 | She felt she might never eat again until Betty had gone . |
| 19 | She knew she might never hear the words again , but they would be there in every look , every word , every gesture . |
| 20 | I thought you might even come round to the flat , and we 'd have a row , and then everything would be OK between us , but all you did was send back your clothes . ’ |
| 21 | I thought you might just have remembered that , seeing that you typing it out for me only yesterday . ’ |
| 22 | I asked her to phone because I thought you might just recognise my voice and as we did n't part on the best of terms … ’ |
| 23 | We just thought you might okay one travel warrants . |
| 24 | Snizort thought you might very nearly expect creatures , beings , anything at all , to steal through a darkling forest and lie watching the strange group of people eating supper and drinking wine in the glow from the fire . |
| 25 | I thought you might still be down-town . |
| 26 | Minutes after , she thought she might just live . |
| 27 | As she set down her cup , startling the sparrows , she thought she might even pack his belongings . |
| 28 | She thought she might even be able to get a good night 's sleep for the first time since she had arrived at the house . |
| 29 | When she bent her head towards his with her lips softly pouted , she came so close that for one brief moment he thought she might actually kiss his forehead . |
| 30 | She was so unlike the groomed and unemotional woman Charlotte knew that , for a second , she thought she might actually be somebody else . |