Example sentences of "[pers pn] might [adv] [vb infin] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 imply that I might soon have funds . ’
2 I think he hoped I might eventually add distinction to the family name , of which he was intensely proud , and his initial interest in me also developed into affection .
3 Paula said slyly , ‘ I might just tell Mum what you and Edward get up to in the pictures . ’
4 Finally Mr Mayor I might just take issue with councillor .
5 So I might just have Monday Tuesday Monday Tuesday .
6 ‘ But I might just feign insanity some day and come back for another cup of that damned fine coffee . ’
7 I might even give money to The Campaign for Heavier Helmets today .
8 ‘ So you did , and in that case , if you 're a very good girl , I might yet make love to you . ’
9 I might actually see Edward ? ’
10 I reckoned I might still escape detection , however , if I ran on my toes in a sort of hearty limbering up exercise .
11 She might even make room for Louise on her float .
12 She might even buy mince pies instead of making them !
13 If she rang now she might just catch Levkovich in his morning break .
14 The Prime Minister announced on Nov. 26 that some months earlier the Queen had asked him to consider the basis on which she might voluntarily pay tax on her personal income and also take responsibility for certain payments to additional members of the royal family ; the Prince of Wales had made a similar request with regard to the Duchy of Cornwall .
15 I wondered if she might ever get frostbite ; I was sure I could see little crystals of ice glinting on her faint moustache .
16 It often occurred to her that she might never leave Florence again even when she had the money and means to do so .
17 The pain would return , she knew , cruel and cutting , but pride and hurt meant little compared to the fear that she might never see fitzAlan again .
18 Leonora watched the grey smudge of shoreline growing closer , knowing that once she was there this part of her life would be over , and she might never see Penry Vaughan again .
19 ‘ We are looking at what you might loosely call superloos .
20 If you just pull the plug it does n't have time to erase the temporary files it used and if you are using the latest SmartDrv utility you might even lose data that you thought was safely written to disk .
21 I mean , we 've been longtime admirers of yours , well you might even say fans since the days of Screentest really .
22 If you did , ’ said Zeinab , ‘ you might even find Suleiman ready to think again . ’
23 Belcher si not a great beer-drinker either , but for Morse and Dexter there 's no better way of ending the day at the pub , one of their favourite haunts is the Kings Arms where you might even get Dexter to admit he might actually share one or two of his creation 's habits .
24 From Laruns you might also travel east , up the smaller valley of the river Valentin , which is enormously lush because it gets unusual amounts of rain .
25 By comparing the film Apocalypse Now ( 1978 ) with the story on which it is based — Joseph Conrad 's " Heart of Darkness " ( 1902 ) — you might gain ideas about differences between film and writing as media , or differences between an early twentieth-century text and a late twentieth-century text ; you might also get ideas about narrative by comparing how the two narratives are the same and how they differ .
26 You might also include Christmas and holiday expenses .
27 If you are lucky you might also catch sight of an otter around the burn .
28 You might also see gadwall , Brent geese and Bewick 's swans .
29 If you are very speedy , you might just catch Norrie Pope of Hadspen Nursery demonstrating horticultural propagation at Kiftsgate ( seen below ) on 27 February , or James Compton ( ex-Chelsea Physic Garden ) growing recondite plants there on 28 February .
30 You might well enjoy Beaumont and Fletcher 's rumbustious The Knight of the Burning Pestle — The Maid 's Tragedy is a good choice , too .
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