Example sentences of "[pron] might [vb infin] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Normally I do the computational modelling first then context but I might do it the other way round , right ? |
| 2 | ‘ I might ask you the same thing . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I might ask you the same question . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I might ask you the same thing . |
| 5 | I might erm I might see what the sleeve 's like , I might er er wait and see how much wool I 've got |
| 6 | Occasionally I might buy him the big third Mac , the third Big Mac , just to prove to him he ca n't eat it , and this establishes in the superego a , that the , the superego to some extent speaks for reality and , and the reality sense is part of the , is part of the standards which are built into , which are built into the superego , and to , and therefore to a large extent the superego opposes the pleasure principle that operates in the id . |
| 7 | Most of all we want to shelve the things which might cause us the slightest discomfort . |
| 8 | And it went without saying that , if he was not prepared to take a risk with his money , he most certainly was not prepared to take a risk which might lose him the one person he could trust . |
| 9 | She might pull it the other way . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ And perhaps when you see Chatterton leave us you might bring us the lunch menu . ’ |
| 11 | But you might give them the space to find one for themselves . ’ |
| 12 | He took care of the nation 's finances , Aunt Harriet had said , you might call him the Keeper of the Purse . |
| 13 | Now , erm on the subject of of the family , it 's worth mentioning another erm sort of debate that goes on within the subject of child sex abuse , the business of I suppose you might call it the business of responsibility . |
| 14 | Now you might ask what the big handkerchief was for . |
| 15 | Adults often doodle in order to help themselves concentrate , and as the pencil strays around an apparently irrelevant line , in an apparently different activity — much like this paragraph , come to think of it — we might ask what the mind is doing . |
| 16 | They might tell them the stories , the bible stories at school , but I mean the general church |
| 17 | Erm or they might tell you the angle . |
| 18 | She had a glass of gin in her hand , but she was not drinking it , just holding it as if it might offer her the cheer and support that she might not otherwise find elsewhere . |
| 19 | It might benefit him the more if the money were to be withheld until he is older . |
| 20 | ‘ It might buy you the time you need . |
| 21 | He might think it the honourable thing to do . |
| 22 | 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 . |