Example sentences of "[conj] he might " in BNC.
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| 1 | Martin Woodcock 's paintings of all known cotingas are generously proportioned and The Cotingas is an inspiration to any adventurous ornithologist looking for areas of study where he might still contribute to science by straightforward observation . |
| 2 | I also suggested that he go and live in San Francisco for six months , where he might see for himself and in practice the ideal which Jesus Christ was talking about , which is far removed from anything the Church of England ever practises in this country . |
| 3 | As a boy Waugh had longed to go to Eton , which might have made a radical of him and where he might have met Orwell , and did not ; his first aristocratic wife left him after a year , and for an Etonian ; and his sojourns in a great Elizabethan house in Worcestershire as a young man , the guest of a friend , allowed him to glimpse a world of moats , battlements and rolling parkland from which in spirit he never awoke . |
| 4 | Have you any idea where he might be ? " |
| 5 | The usual pattern was for all to congregate in Minton 's studio where he might cook a large risotto after which they went to a film . |
| 6 | Where he might have been standing still had not the eagles lunged at him , as if moments before it fell they had sensed that some danger was there and had sought to protect him . |
| 7 | Above all he turned his anger towards Kenamun , who , on grounds of security , had forbidden Huy to visit the scene of the third murder when it came to light , where he might have had a chance at last of studying the circumstances of death . |
| 8 | ‘ D' you have any idea where he might have gone ? ’ |
| 9 | Now : do you have any idea where he might have gone ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Now , any idea where he might go ? ’ |
| 11 | Several years before the thought came to His Majesty 's omniscient mind that he should select some pleasant sight on the banks of the River Jumna … where he might found a splendid and delightful edifice . |
| 12 | When the Ottoman empire declared war on a foreign state its unfortunate representative in Constantinople was very often immediately thrown into the Seven Towers prison there , where he might stay for a considerable time . |
| 13 | He 's been arrested 32 times for shoplifting , but each time magistrates ruled the offences were n't serious enough for him to be detained , where he might have got the treatment he needs . |
| 14 | Billy Rock who has Listowel in mind for his smart and successful chaser Joey Kelly runs the gelding on Monday and he will go again at the next Roscommon meeting a fortnight later before travelling to Listowel where he might be worth an investment in view of that Galway win in July . |
| 15 | Or he might aim for a minority government dependent on the votes of six Arab members of the Knesset . |
| 16 | Or he might not . |
| 17 | Or he might be handed a file and a tiny silver tool with which to clean her toenails while she dozed in a chair . |
| 18 | The garden can provide the patient 's first opportunity to feel he has achieved something by himself : he can grow flowers to beautify the garden or provide cut flowers for the house , or he might grow vegetables or herbs . |
| 19 | Graham Taylor is hoping that Santa wo n't give away any goals to England 's World Cup opponents — or he might be given the sack . |
| 20 | In order to do so , the counsellor may have to ‘ unlearn ’ some of the more conventional understandings she or he might have about the nature of the war . |
| 21 | If he had no children , an emperor might adopt a son from another gens , or he might leave the throne to his sister 's son , who would of course bear the name of another family . |
| 22 | Or he might stick with the status quo , in which parliament has principal responsibility for the economy , and replace Mr Kuchma with a more pliant prime minister . |
| 23 | ( Thucydides never saw Pericles at his demagogic debut , or he might have felt less dismay at the look of the great man 's successors : ii.65 . ) |
| 24 | He might try to justify the principle by appealing to logic , a recourse that we freely grant him , or he might attempt to justify the principle by appealing to experience , a recourse that lies at the basis of his whole approach to science . |
| 25 | I had decided that I had to face up to the fact that John might not come back or he might be gone for a long time and that when he did come back we might not love one another . |
| 26 | He might be a real friend , or he might not . |
| 27 | Of course the dictator would have to be of the right political colour , or he might shoot the wrong people . |
| 28 | He might be in or he might be out . |
| 29 | A year ago , perhaps — or he might have considered it as recently as six months since . |
| 30 | Better tie his hands , or he might do himself an injury . ’ |