Example sentences of "might give " in BNC.
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| 1 | You feel at first that on a bad day ( there are quite a few ) Patrick might give it one of the kicks that the novelist seems about to direct at his readers . |
| 2 | Nevertheless I feel that I have a responsibility to the public and to the world of art both to present your unpublished writings in as comprehensible a form as possible , and at the same time to correct some of the misleading impressions these might give , not of course about yourself , but about others , casually mentioned here and there in the course of your jottings . |
| 3 | To soothe the discomfort , if the thrush is severe , your doctor might give you pessaries — pills you put directly in the vagina — or cream . |
| 4 | One moment of confusion and he might give someone away , or incriminate himself . |
| 5 | If I see one that looks like it 's growing good , I might give it some extra feed and talk to it a bit . ’ |
| 6 | With the white pieces , he seemed intent on avoiding any continuation that might give him an advantage , playing into total equality , then drifting into an inferior position and time-trouble . |
| 7 | One person might give the Conservative Party the highest of three high scores , another might give it the highest of three low scores . |
| 8 | One person might give the Conservative Party the highest of three high scores , another might give it the highest of three low scores . |
| 9 | send your record to every DJ and radio producer in the country who you think might give it a play , and follow up your mail-out with a phone call . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | However , they do know that winning Group F might give them an easier game in the second round ( against the runners-up in Belgium 's group ) than they would earn by finishing second , when they would face the second-placed side in Argentina 's group . |
| 12 | However , they do know that winning Group F might give them an easier game in the second round ( against the runners-up in Belgium 's group ) than they would earn by finishing second , when they would face the second-placed side in Argentina 's group . |
| 13 | Only the other day Robson was criticising Paul Gascoigne for attempting a similar back-heeled flick during England 's B match against Yugoslavia … could be costly , might give the other side a goal , must cut out that sort of thing , and so on . |
| 14 | ‘ We need to check what he was doing those days , anyway — I did n't try too hard when we were last there , because I hoped the autopsy might give us something . |
| 15 | Syria sponsored the recent reconciliation between Iraq 's external opposition groups ( see box on previous page ) , which might give Mr Assad useful influence with a post-war government in Iraq . |
| 16 | That might give Mr Gaviria real problems . |
| 17 | In studying Epicurus , Gassendi found confirmation for the embryonic idea of the Exercises , that sense-experience might give us something worthwhile and valuable even though it can not give us knowledge of necessary causes and of the natures of things . |
| 18 | I might give you a name one day and the next day the vacancy would be filled . |
| 19 | Even their kisses might give him a disease from which he would die or become horribly spotty . |
| 20 | If you have problems socializing , looking better might give you more confidence but you still might have to give yourself that final push to get out there and start mingling . |
| 21 | Most organisers set them rigidly in straight rows without checking whether some other design might give everyone a better view and provide more working and movement space . |
| 22 | She knew little moans of anguish were escaping her , whimperings such as a dog might give . |
| 23 | Charsky gazed around the hushed audience , hoping to catch sight of a friend whose kind smile might give him strength . |
| 24 | Evelyn would have been shocked to hear anyone else say the same , but she had washed her hands of Rose Williams , and a mixture of tiredness and terror that Jackie might give away their secrets made her callous . |
| 25 | A few years at work in a friendly tax climate might give you the chance to build up capital , and to keep it somewhere out of harm 's way . |
| 26 | ‘ After the Kentucky Derby , we will make a decision on where he goes , but I 'm a Yankee and that might give you a fair indication of where I 'd like to see him run , ’ he added . |
| 27 | GOOD drawing ability used to be considered important at school , not only as a skill that might give expression to a child 's aesthetic and artistic inclinations , but also one that would be useful in practical ways — in recording flora and fauna in nature study , for example . |
| 28 | Wearing fashionable clothes might give us more confidence , but we can gain that through thousands of other more important things . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | And we must remember our interest in Livesey is only that he might give us a lead to the young girl 's killer . ’ |