Example sentences of "[pers pn] might [vb infin] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I might hope to be a better grandfather than I 'd been a father . ’ |
| 2 | I might need to be set up and ready to go , with up to £600 to spend . |
| 3 | ‘ I was beginning to think I might have to be the one to raise the question , ’ she returned demurely . |
| 4 | She was simply reminding Jaq of how she might continue to be useful . |
| 5 | She thought it outrageous that he should even think she might want to be friends in the circumstances . |
| 6 | " I just think that she might prove to be somewhat difficult to dispose of … oh , do n't look so surprised . |
| 7 | You might want to be able to sort of get to their flat very quickly . |
| 8 | Now , er , I do n't know er why you might want to be unlisted , ex-directory , not in the book . |
| 9 | I had not done so before merely because I had not thought of them in this context ; I had supposed that you might prefer to be at some slight remove from the nefarious influences of the department … |
| 10 | The Col d'Osquich is lucky you might think to be called . |
| 11 | Nor can he always rely on the help of those who in any other industry or service you might expect to be on his side . |
| 12 | And if the principle works with man as well , then by spending your whole life in a cruising aircraft you might live to be a hundred . |
| 13 | If you can help PLEASE tick the jobs you feel you might like to be involved with : |
| 14 | If you can help PLEASE tick the jobs you feel you might like to be involved with : |
| 15 | person you might like to be but actually unfortunately are n't . |
| 16 | Belinda if we can start with you more or less erm I heard the other day that you 're half thinking that you might like to be a nurse ? |
| 17 | Yeah there 's one little minor adjustment that you y you might be aware you might need to be aware of . |
| 18 | Give somebody a lift and take cash for it and we 've got you , so you might have to be very careful who you travel with , if you get my drift . ’ |
| 19 | You might have to be more clear about what you 're specifically asking for rather than use handles titles . |
| 20 | Do n't know if you 'll see it over there , I think you might have to be in the light . |
| 21 | I say you might — because of course I can not speak with any certainty upon that point — as you might wish to be granted . |
| 22 | You might try to be a little more adventurous and make patterns and , for example , cut egg sandwiches in the shape of an egg . |
| 23 | 'Course , we might live to be ninety . |
| 24 | But once we add this functional criterion we create a different problem : sometimes non-governmental bodies perform functions which we might consider to be governmental ( or ‘ public ’ ) in nature ( or , in other words , most appropriately conducted by government ) . |
| 25 | In fact , we might have to be reminded that it came from a pig at all . |
| 26 | Well if they owe us money and stuff like that , we might have to be going to court in the end with it but the only trouble is , we 're losing that much bloody time taking a day off and going down there ! |
| 27 | They need clothes for the prisoners as well as paper , pens , paint , in fact anything that we might find to be surplus in this country they could use , ’ he said . |
| 28 | We might wish to be tougher on large firms if the government is pursuing a policy of protection with high import tariffs . |
| 29 | There were a lot of young drunks staggering about , too — most at that noisy and unattractive stage where they might want to be your pal or pick a fight or just throw up on you , so I gave them a wide berth . |
| 30 | In these ways , our relationship with others grows and deepens , freeing them to be in Christ as they might long to be . |