Example sentences of "[noun] he might [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anne , true friend that she was , would never give in to him and reveal where the cottage was situated , no matter what bullying tactics he might employ . |
| 2 | Lyons , in fact , would support this view and , whatever other characteristics he might attribute to literacy , or to specific language-systems such as English , he would not associate them with lack of ambiguity , as do Hildyard , Olson and Greenfield . |
| 3 | ‘ I told him that he is violent , has mistreated her very badly , have been trigger happy and whatever kindness he might have done for her he had cancelled by beatings and threats he had made on her life . |
| 4 | He spoke in a flat monotone , suppressing all the emotion he might have felt . |
| 5 | The Queen 's Bench held that he had offended because in the future he might wish to tender for council house construction . |
| 6 | With a little more coaching he might get the knack . |
| 7 | Keith realizes Goliath has padded his because it simply has not crossed his mind he might lose . |
| 8 | This guy when he the policeman spoke to him afterwards , his words to the policeman Now let's bear in mind he might have been in shock . |
| 9 | A friend seeing him off from New York on Sunday gave him this to relieve the tension he might face here . |
| 10 | As anyone but Richard himself might have predicted , the palpable , screaming existence of his daughter , Holly , assuaged whatever doubts he might have had about his readiness for parenthood . |
| 11 | Even if I allow him to scribble down a few paragraphs of his own fiction ( and I do not see why I should ) it still follows that any words he might write must in the first instance be composed by me . |
| 12 | I suppose if Rupert had not been a bear he might have been considered prissy , like Noddy . |
| 13 | Franco not only did not do so but , on the following day , requested Sperrle to send any spare aircraft he might have to the Madrid front . |
| 14 | For more bullish clients he might suggest a maximum of 25 p.c. of the monthly saving could go into a Pep . |
| 15 | He was firm in saying that devaluation was no solution but imprecise as to what further action he might take to prevent it . |
| 16 | God knew what harm he might do ! |
| 17 | It was not the harm he might do himself but the slips he might make along the way which alerted Emlyn . |
| 18 | Otherwise , Kovacevich was well wide of the mark and if he respects this work he might contemplate putting it away for a few years before reconsidering its interpretation . |
| 19 | This will be a normal working day for the man and after work he might go off to the pub for a drink with his mates . |
| 20 | He had n't dared to dwell on her in those aging arms lest his rage should drive him to deeds he might regret for the rest of his life . |
| 21 | to make the responses he might ask of me |
| 22 | She had the feeling that at any second he might get up and walk around her , judging her from all angles in much the same manner as one assessed the points of a horse , and she lifted her chin , staring at him coolly . |
| 23 | In Jones ( M ) v Jones ( R R ) [ 1971 ] 1 WLR 840 an agreed court order said that the liquidator of a company was to appoint any expert he might select to value the company 's machinery . |
| 24 | I 've thought about him a great deal and have a plan he might find useful . |
| 25 | Here houses looked to me like Monopoly chips : seeing a man cycling over the pathless tundra I scanned hopelessly for a possible point of reference he might have . |
| 26 | In another mood he might have been goaded to further efforts by her extremely obvious , even insulting , indifference , but now , if anything , he was inclined to give her credit for it . |
| 27 | But , in the Hallowe'en Novices ' Chase he might need to eat a whole mine , to beat Dusty Miller , another Festival scorer . |
| 28 | It would be the perfect private situation in which Tim might be ready to explain himself , and Oliver would be there to witness any confession he might make . |
| 29 | He told the judge he might think that was ‘ a very sorry state of affairs ’ but that was Community law . |
| 30 | Under ordinary circumstances he might have got the second but they responded to his aggression with speed and efficiency , bottling him up again with a hail of bullets — bullets fired from very close range . |