Example sentences of "[pers pn] might be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Trouble is , Danny , they beat the watchman up an' 'e picked 'em out in an identification parade , so the copper told me. 'E said I might be 'earin' from 'em . |
| 2 | I might be replaced by an old-fashioned advocate of Latinate grammar , and that would be a disaster for the schools . |
| 3 | If I had a little light , I thought , I might be tempted to a bit of a read in bed . |
| 4 | ‘ Why , what did you think I might be thinking about ? ’ |
| 5 | But you might be talking to a client , says , but at the moment , I 've got no need , erm , or I 've got n no intention of buying now , but I might be buying in a year or two year 's time . |
| 6 | I thought to myself , ‘ Jimmy Dickinson does n't go abroad and certainly not to the States , so if I make a good job of it at Walton Heath I might be caddying for Sandy full-time in the future . ’ |
| 7 | In a month , she thought , in just a month , I might be looking at quite a different view . |
| 8 | I was afraid I might be shot by a startled sentry . |
| 9 | Thus I might be glossed as " the person writing this sentence " ; you as " the addressee/participant in the discourse " , and so on . |
| 10 | ‘ You had them all the time — you trailed me round — you bloody filthy lying bastard — you poked my head into every shit-bin in Bristol — you led me up hill and down dale till my feet were dropping off — you made me steal some people 's boat — I could 've been got by the police — I might be festering in jail now — handcuffed — criminal — you do n't care , you 're criminal anyway — I would n't be surprised if you 'd murdered half a dozen innocent people and cut them up and kept their pieces stashed away in the hole where you 've been hiding my bag and my things and my money and my dreams … ’ |
| 11 | First of all we SUFFERED that defeat last Saturday next I knacker my ankle playing on Sunday and lastly I arrive in Northampton on Monday morning to find that we could only get tickets for Arsenal end on Tuesday ( So Gavin it was n't me being escorted away by the men in black , even though it the current season does n't improve quickly I might be escorted by mem in white . ) |
| 12 | I might be starting at Crewe or Rochdale , but I might end up at the top . ’ |
| 13 | I learned later that , in the presence of a superior officer , he had wrongly suggested that I might be returned to the hotel after treatment . |
| 14 | My good sister , how happy should I be if I might be admitted to a conversation with you at your grate . |
| 15 | " I think I might be falling for you , you know , " he said as they were drinking up at eleven . |
| 16 | To think I imagined I might be falling in love with him ! she thought , as she went into the kitchen . |
| 17 | I think I might be falling in love , the words kept running through her brain . |
| 18 | If I return to the matter of improving liaison is it possible that I might be provided with a list of the names of the various staff that serve the Branch and also the names of the Committee members- and this updated at whatever time of year the membership changes . |
| 19 | No , I 'm just trying to work out how long I 'm gon na be practising for West Side Story tomorrow because you might have to take my money my pocket money tomorrow I might not be able to get like home , sort of cos er I I might be practising till bloody six o'clock for all I know so I 'll get some chips or something . |
| 20 | I had a flimsy recollection of being afraid of getting drowned ; now I had a flimsy suspicion that I might be buried under snow and never rise again to the surface . |
| 21 | The concept of an objective order demands the possibility of certain criteria of objectivity , such that I might be corrected by others on a given occasion , should I for any reason fall foul of such criteria . |
| 22 | I might be going to Heaven . |
| 23 | no , I might be going to London |
| 24 | I might be going to er Ellesmere Port , there 's coffin stones to get up , they 've got er hoist thing there so I do n't know . |
| 25 | You feel more confident do n't you in a group situation if you know exactly what people er er know or what they do n't know , cos there 's nothing worse is n't there than to go in and thinking they may already know this , I might be going in an teaching my grandmother to suck eggs here , I 'm not sure what they know about this . |
| 26 | There was a possibility that a recording of his might be used as theme music for a commercial — if he could come up to London in the near future this could be discussed . |
| 27 | One or two of them might be related to me , but I work on the assumption that my children will have access to most things and personal experience of some . |
| 28 | She felt as if she might be struck by lightning if she stayed where she was . |
| 29 | began to help , thinking that she might either find some opportune moment for introducing her own problems , or that she might be treated with news of her mother 's latest triumph . |
| 30 | In some ways , she might be justified in using that argument . |