Example sentences of "he might [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Mind , 'e might 'ave been after all me little gels , they bein' 'ighly valuable . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ P'raps 'e might like me too , ’ said Nancy . |
| 3 | James III 's idea of soldiering abroad , for example , to win renown and territory in Brittany and the county to the south , Saintonge , and in Guelders , was blocked by resistance at home ; in 1473 parliament tartly pointed out that if renown was what he was after , what he should be doing was ‘ to travel through his realm and put such justice and policy in his own realm that the brute and the fame of him might pass in other countries ’ . |
| 4 | Co-operating with him might lead to a sell-out before they had even started . |
| 5 | Certainly her main reason for accepting the post had nothing to do with the actual work involved , but the hope that closer acquaintance with him might throw some light on Elise 's baffling death . |
| 6 | Contact with him might result in another kind of dizziness . |
| 7 | And for the chairman of the bank to be showing particular interest in him might alert people who , if the truth is ever to come to light , ought not to be alerted . " |
| 8 | The thought occurred once again to Henry that someone who was n't him might have a sexual interest in his wife . |
| 9 | The same came for a witness , to bear witness of the Light , that all men through him might believe . |
| 10 | But at least she would be treading in his footsteps , and somewhere along the way a clearer picture of him might emerge . |
| 11 | Or he might aim for a minority government dependent on the votes of six Arab members of the Knesset . |
| 12 | Sir John Harington relates , however , how ‘ he would walk at certain hours in one of the aisles of St Paul 's , that if any came to him for spiritual advice and comfort ( as some did though not many ) he might impart it to them ’ . |
| 13 | Unix System Laboratories Inc president Roel Pieper said in a talk with a bunch of software developers that he might license the tag ‘ Desktop Unix ’ to his COSE partners but never the unadorned word Unix . |
| 14 | Unix System Labs president , Roel Pieper , said in a talk with a bunch of software developers that he might license the tag ‘ Desktop Unix ’ to his COSE partners but never the unadorned word Unix . |
| 15 | Though he might jibe at the London Group , his own work was sufficiently acceptable to this conservative exhibiting society for him to be elected a member in 1949 , the same year that he was represented in ‘ The Art of the Book Jacket ’ which , after being shown at the Victoria and Albert Museum , went on tour at home and abroad . |
| 16 | The Irish were always afraid of the local bard , that he might record their names in some of his work . ’ |
| 17 | In the heat of the moment , he might slacken his moral principles . |
| 18 | Yet when he made to take a line of stones he had surrounded from the board , the boy placed his hand over Tuan 's , stopping him , lifting his hand so that he might study the position , his face creased into a frown , as if trying to take in what he had done wrong . |
| 19 | He might demand , but he was not going to force her . |
| 20 | They moved in , and invited William Morris to stay so that he might advise them on decorating and restoring the place . |
| 21 | He might advise me to make a statement to the police which I should of course do under his guidance . |
| 22 | As the series went on , it became clear that the players would happily follow Gooch through fire , flood , armies of tarantulas or anything else he might choose , if at the end of it there was the chance of winning a Test match . |
| 23 | Internal organization is a class of governance whose distinguishing feature is that a resource owner accepts restrictions on his sole rights to use his resources in whatever way he might choose . |
| 24 | Curtis , fully aware that this was the last night of the Prophet 's current crusade , had anticipated that he might choose it for a last hunting expedition , before retreating to his lair upstate . |
| 25 | It should be that Richard does it , though he might choose to delegate it . |
| 26 | Earlier this year , six Romanian party veterans sent him a message full of criticism of his policies ; there was talk that he might step down . |
| 27 | She looked pleadingly at the man in overalls as if he might step in and save her . |
| 28 | Mulroney accepted that the referendum result had consigned the Charlottetown agreement to " history " , but rejected suggestions that , in the face of such a personal reverse , he might step down as Prime Minister . |
| 29 | At precisely the minute it looked as if he might step back inside the lodge , a young couple , obviously very much in love , got up and left , leaving a place for him to sit . |
| 30 | ‘ He might hire a private detective to tail you . |