Example sentences of "might [verb] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The team elected by Labour members yesterday bore some resemblance to the team the public might elect to take on the Tories . |
| 2 | So , for example , you might decide to spread out the shots by firing one or two per turn , or you can blow the lot in a spectacular nine-shot volley — it 's your choice . |
| 3 | Healey dropped hints in Washington that Britain — in the long run — might decide to give up the Singapore base . |
| 4 | These lords viewed Edward III 's seizure of power with enthusiasm , believing not only that Edward might wish to wipe out the stain of the Stanhope Park campaign and the shameful peace , but also that they themselves might reap some political reward for their opposition to Mortimer in 1328 . |
| 5 | With this in mind you might try to point out the consequences ( effects ) of your children 's behaviour for themselves and for others . |
| 6 | This might have shored up the dollar for a time had the US balance of payments improved as expected . |
| 7 | Moisture from the inflated covers might have gingered up the pitch somewhat for the third day , and with the ball still quite new , England 's bowlers were clearly interested in a breakthrough . |
| 8 | Their conduct amounted to insulting behaviour ( it insulted the women ! ) which may have occasioned a breach of the peace ( the partners of the women might have beaten up the two male lovers ) . |
| 9 | I might have checked out the financial aspects of buying into the station , but one thing I 've learned over the years is that you can never do too much research . |
| 10 | Yet it does not occur to them that God might have brought about the defeat as an act of judgement upon them , and unlike Joshua and the elders in the story of Ai in Joshua 7 , they do not bother to turn to God to discover his mind . |
| 11 | An alternative explanation for Abu Nidal involvement was the suggestion that his group might have carried out the killings on behalf of the Iraqi regime ; this version depended on the suggestion that Abu Iyad , while publicly backing the PLO 's pro-Iraqi line , was expressing reservations about it to Arafat in private . |
| 12 | Or in North Africa , having left the 11th Field Regiment , he might have sat out the rest of the war in luxury , gaining rank through time and , come the Peace , have been a live major instead of a dead lieutenant . |
| 13 | Folly felt an urge to wash , as if the words had been printed in dark , inky type in the headline of a tabloid newspaper and her hands might have picked up the stain . |
| 14 | In addition , those who favour the return of a property tax point out ( as described earlier in this chapter ) that there are many financial advantages involved in purchasing a house and that a property tax might serve to dampen down the overheating of the housing market evident during much of the 1980s . |
| 15 | If we put more oxygen in , it might start going back the other way . |