Example sentences of "they might [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People might 've messed around with it by putting this overhead profit to risk , they might 've put a negative er element in there , er they might 've put a high-cost element in there , they might put nought in there , so it 's very difficult to recognise that , that bill rates er from the labour , or the labour from the bill rate , there is n't a standard relationship , nowhere near . |
| 2 | People might 've messed around with it by putting this overhead profit to risk , they might 've put a negative er element in there , er they might 've put a high-cost element in there , they might put nought in there , so it 's very difficult to recognise that , that bill rates er from the labour , or the labour from the bill rate , there is n't a standard relationship , nowhere near . |
| 3 | Well he got up that railway track , I mean , bloody hell , they might 've thought well that 's one way he 's gon na go . |
| 4 | ‘ They might get rid of the Leven men , for a start , and help the places already being attacked . |
| 5 | Somehow I never dreamed that they might get involved , especially as they are in London . |
| 6 | ’ Too many people say they would n't shoplift because they might get caught . |
| 7 | They might have become becalmed there as their heads ballooned with the drink but the Duke told his piper to rouse their feet with a steady march , ‘ Murdo Mackenzie of Torridon ’ , and they headed off downstream towards Grandtully past the standing stone , the quiet watcher , while damp black shadow massed in the river-channel as though the night came from there . |
| 8 | They might have become lovers . |
| 9 | Almost as a bonus they might have gained a very cheap solution to an expensive problem . |
| 10 | By this time they might have gained a portfolio They might well have got hooked . |
| 11 | Oh it was a nice ball that by , shoots and scores , Notts get a second just moments after they might have conceded one at the other end , the referee unimpressed by the penalty claims but the crowd are there , with a really fine piece of finishing by Gary , nine minutes to half time and adds to the one that got in twenty four , and it 's two nil to Notts County against . |
| 12 | We can get an idea of how they might have breathed by looking at modern fish . |
| 13 | The complex of disparate elements comprising academic English was always unstable , though they might have stayed together longer if it had not been for the demands of the academic environment . |
| 14 | Being unexpectedly faced by samples of one or the other could convert some to forms of expression which they might have ignored for the rest of their lives . |
| 15 | Had they stung Bristol into raising a game dampened by unremitting drizzle they might have suffered more . |
| 16 | I think they might have split up . |
| 17 | They might have tracked her down . ’ |
| 18 | Had the Conservatives lost another general election they might have lost credibility as a potential party of government , and this could well have damaged their role as the integrating force of the political right . |
| 19 | Back home , there 's ‘ The Impossible Dream ’ of a Christmas Number One and a nagging feeling they might have lost the plot . |
| 20 | No it 's all of it even the h and the w I think they might have lost some figures off of it at some time . |
| 21 | It was what actors call a total ‘ corpse ’ , and , although they managed to get through to the end of the play , any tension they might have built up was dissipated . |
| 22 | Perhaps they might have developed into friends . |
| 23 | I do not blame the Opposition for not understanding the issues as fully as we might hope , but , given their new-found support and desire for everything European , I thought that they might have developed a better understanding . |
| 24 | They might have precipitated a split between moderate and radical wings of the labour movement comparable to that which proved so critical to the stabilization of the West in the aftermath of the First World War . |
| 25 | They might have ticked it , they might write to every |
| 26 | ‘ I have n't heard of anybody , ’ he said casually , ‘ but if the lawyers asked me they might have asked somebody else before … |
| 27 | They were country people in a sense that Melanie was not , although she had just come from the green fields and they might have lived in London all their lives . |
| 28 | But they were the owners of the securities , and it was by their own mandate , which presumably they might have recalled , that payment was made directly to the beneficiary . |
| 29 | You do n't go out with SS soldiers at this time of night ; they might have shot you . ’ |
| 30 | They might have made an effort to get the right costumes . |