Example sentences of "might be [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He smiled tenderly , and the knowledge that he was only doing it for the benefit of anyone who might be watching sliced deep into the very heart of her . |
| 2 | Anyway , he thought they would be drifting apart a bit now , perversely but predictably because they were seeing more of each other , not just weekends ; Stock stayed the night at the horrible little place in Islington quite often , but Slater thought Sara might be getting bored with the black-leather macho man . |
| 3 | ‘ Not really , I just thought she might be getting restless and I 've had an idea . |
| 4 | Sterotabs Extra , £3.75 for 30 tablets , are more powerful and one tablet will purify 25 ltr of water in 10 minutes — particularly good for camping holidays when you might be using large plastic water containers . |
| 5 | The group can provide an opportunity for socialization , and for sharing problems and feelings with others who might be experiencing similar difficulties . |
| 6 | It is useful in recording progress in work programmes , e.g. trial and error ward management problems , one example of which might be organising patient allocation for total patient care and delegating responsibilities by senior student nurses . |
| 7 | Age , because you might be considering well , er , if something happens dramatically , at say fifty , fifty two , or something like that , you might just go and retire , so you would be set up in that respect . |
| 8 | McLuhan 's response was to write a series of books about the situation , but any suggestion that this might be reinforcing linear thinking is rapidly dispelled by the nature of his own prose . |
| 9 | They also acknowledged that operators had initially delayed taking action for nearly an hour , in the belief that a gauge which showed an increase in radioactivity in the secondary system might be giving false readings . |
| 10 | For others the best way might be talking dirty about safer sex , or just by making it clear what you want by your actions . |
| 11 | Abbey National might be feeling perky at the moment but few others of the major players share its rosy view . |
| 12 | She might be lying dead in a ditch . ’ |
| 13 | No it 's just tha he wo n't be but he might be doing light jobs like say putting , putting up pictures in about two months er er |
| 14 | He has a romantic soul , and he was delighted to think he might be playing Cupid . ’ |
| 15 | In the course of such conversations it often happens that the bereaved person is not only troubled by thoughts that they might be going mad but by the notion that they are very bad . |
| 16 | He felt he might be going mad . |
| 17 | Maxine confessed that there had been times when she had thought she might be going mad , so great was her horror of water . |
| 18 | I had no idea what he was referring to , and remembering his strange behaviour with the piece of paper , I began to fear that he might be going mad . |
| 19 | Erm w I mean where they do n't work when somebody offers code and they do n't work , there 's not a lot you can do other than sort of make some informed guesses as to what might be going wrong . |