Example sentences of "that they might [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So saying , she bustled Theda back behind the curtain , bidding her change quickly that they might visit a milliner , and prudently went away to confer with Antoinette . |
| 2 | The whole process had become discredited once various members of the indigent upper classes had taken to hiring themselves out as proxy mothers to daughters of self-made industrialists , in order that they might contract a marriage with a desperate aristo . |
| 3 | Which I suspect the odd tory MP having a heart attack , falling under a bus , the loss of directions might actually mean that they might see a degree of sense in borough capping . |
| 4 | How cast his shadow over the imaginations of their daughters before their squires beget upon them that they might breed a race less ignoble than their own ? |
| 5 | As far as they have been able to check , they believe that they are the only two Scottish CAs in partnership together in Australia , but we would be interested in hearing from anyone who thinks that they might have a claim to that title . |
| 6 | They seemed to know when the tragedy of the previous night had occurred , and had maybe come to the theatre in such numbers in the vague hope that they might get a repeat showing . |