Example sentences of "[art] man [pron] might " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man himself might not of approved . |
| 2 | Buck , the man who was possibly in danger , the man whose wife wanted him lost and gone forever , the man who might perhaps already … |
| 3 | ‘ Do you know about the Borrowdale cuckoo ? ’ he asked , turning an amused expression on the man who might — from these questions — be from the government — they had had government people before and he would not be surprised at them sending a senior man . |
| 4 | If the Emperor encouraged Haussmann by taking a personal interest in his plans , it was the Empress who worked with Alphand , a man who might well be called the gardener of Paris , for it was he who was responsible for the landscaping and planting of all the new parks . |
| 5 | A tidy desk and behind it a man who might have come in on the Saturday afternoon for extra work . |
| 6 | She in her turn had discovered a man who might be charismatic in public , but privately was one who was also ruthless , single-minded , and a loner , an attitude that disconcerted her , because she recognised similar traits in herself . |
| 7 | It is a situation of great humiliation for women when they realise they do not possess their bodies except in relation to a man who might give them something — either children or some economic advantage . |
| 8 | erm There 's a kind of assumption that if something , if somebody does something on a Sunday afternoon , for lack of better , something better to do or because it 's raining and golf is therefore , therefore off , that he therefore does it in a truer , sincerer way than a man who might be doing it as his career , for his income , to keep his family alive and so on . |
| 9 | For so solid and unemotional a man he might have been angry , or perhaps only in a hurry . |