Example sentences of "things that might [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Equally you know things that might prompt people to talk , to describe dreams , to tell stories and that |
| 2 | Things that might irritate you ? ’ she asked carefully . |
| 3 | There is now a general agreement that to perceive a three-dimensional object requires that one starts out with a set of models in one 's head of the kinds of things that might exist , and of what a 2-D image of them might look like , and that one should then test the actual images on one 's retina against these models . |
| 4 | ‘ He 's a good wrestler , a flier , a skier — all the things that might make him an attraction to the Duchess of York . |
| 5 | There i , there are a number of things that might affect the way in which we speak and how we use language in every day conversation , such as where we live , where we went to school , what |
| 6 | If somebody 's saying to you do you want our guarantee — it 's fifty pounds , or it 's a hundred pounds — if you 're spending that sort of money you 'll probably pay out for it and you 'll think you 're covered for all sorts of things that might go wrong . |
| 7 | Thank you for the little thoughts of avoiding the things that might upset me . |
| 8 | It was full of paper , ice-cream tubs and things that might excite the curiosity of any creature . |
| 9 | The only things that might have been classed as narrative were the poems , and they did n't seem to have anything to do with each other , apart from the fact a lot of them seemed to be vaguely about Death , or Love . |
| 10 | But er that was , that was very much er clutching at things that might have been at the last moment . |
| 11 | By comparison , the folk idiom and long melodic phrases of Dvorak 's American String Quartet seem gentle and homely , yet they too conveyed their own form of passionate yearning for homeland rather than , as in the Janacek , for things that might have been . |
| 12 | The thing that worries some people is that as it 's come at this particular time that some of the things that might have been done five years ago by Local Education Authorities to improve their whole education for children with special needs may now , either through other competing financial pressures , or through inertia or whatever , the whole spirit of Warnock could be lost , and I think it 's a thing that , you know , one will have to keep a careful eye on . |
| 13 | It must be true that Nanny was a liar and a trouble-maker because he could hear her saying all those terrible things that might cause Frankie to be taken away for ever . |