Example sentences of "we might [verb] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | We might expect to find a source of order and sense of confidence in the home , but for these particular people this was just not so . |
| 2 | Mother wept to see Father 's state , and proposed that we set out for Chiguana , the nearest town where we might expect to find a hospital , immediately . |
| 3 | Villa boss Ron Atkinson said : ‘ In the first half , we might have made a better game of it if we had turned up . |
| 4 | Thanks very much indeed for your report , Matthew , it 's certainly very informative , and in an ideal world , I think we might have made a different decision today . |
| 5 | We might have to look a long way back . ’ |
| 6 | to his brain , then they comes the next day , oh no that was it , they , then they , we left it , we left it , we left it , he kept saying we might have to make a decision , erm your dad 's leg deteriorated he 's got no circulation in his legs at all , we 've found a pulse in his left leg but we ca n't find one in his right , he said I think you 're gon na have to make the decision of amputation oh god , anyway comes Monday came off ventilator and of course he could n't talk |
| 7 | ‘ I thought we might have looked a bit stiff 'cos it was n't our usual type of audience . ’ |
| 8 | Ideally we might have preferred a juvenile actress , but with the restrictions on the hours children can work in Television we knew we could n't do it that way . ’ |
| 9 | With luck , we might have captured a little of the spit and spunk of the working class kids of Dublin 's Northside . |
| 10 | But where we might have expected a bourgeois society logically to break it up or transform it — as indeed it was to be disintegrated later — the classic phase of bourgeois society reinforced and exaggerated it . |
| 11 | Erm I I am surprised well I do n't I 'm not surprised really they 're probably busy doing things but I thought we might have got a couple of vicars on this er this afternoon to talk about it . |
| 12 | On the other hand , if Lewis had been allowed to live in this way , though we might have had a few more mighty works of literary history from his pen , it is doubtful whether he would have written the works for which he is more popular . |
| 13 | If it had done that , we might have had a sensible dialogue with British Rail , but it did not . |
| 14 | We had a medium I think we might have had a , or a king prawn curry or something . |
| 15 | ‘ Of course we might have to deduct a bit to replace my trolleys . ’ |
| 16 | We might try to operate a deferred payments scheme ourselves . |
| 17 | Similarly , we might claim to have a right to private property on account of having interests which crucially depend on private ownership . |
| 18 | For example , we might wish to test a specified store location to see if its contents are zero or non-zero , or to Compare the contents of an accumulator with the contents of a specified store location as in Figure 3.11(e) . |
| 19 | Thus we might wish to teach a particular structure or word meaning not on the grounds of frequency of occurrence but because its acquisition provides a basis for the learner to understand and learn other structures or meanings by extension . |