Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] he might [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But after about twenty paces , when she had forgotten that he might still be looking , the shoulders drooped , her footsteps slackened , and she walked like someone in a dream . |
| 2 | Fossils fascinate him too , and he says that he might even look to a career in palaeontology . |
| 3 | He sounds like he might still not like dogs an awful lot . |
| 4 | Ramsay was in two minds as to whether it was wise to allow himself to be bottled up in the town when his place arguably was with the Regent ; but he decided that he might possibly play a more useful part here as Seton 's assistant — and he ought to be able to escape by boat , at night , if necessary . |
| 5 | He confessed that he might inadvertently have been guilty of the second on occasion and freely admitted to taking gifts of the third kind , which he regarded as entirely permissible . |
| 6 | A dogmatic intolerance which refused to recognize that he might sometimes be mistaken , a haste which incessantly demanded immediate and clearly identifiable results , undermined policies always well meant and sometimes even well conceived . |
| 7 | He hinted that he might actually be connected with your family . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , he continued to prevaricate even as the Dec. 20 deadline for registering as a candidate for the New Hampshire contest approached , while indicating that he might yet join the contest for his party 's presidential nomination if he could satisfactorily resolve the current impasse between himself and the state legislature over the budget . |
| 9 | There was no response , which meant that he might still be sleeping off a particularly heavy lunchtime session or perhaps was in the bath and could n't be bothered to get out . |
| 10 | With legislative elections due to be held the following year , de Gaulle knew that he might soon have to face a hostile majority committed to clawing back power from the president . |
| 11 | But more important than that , the title also represented a triumph in the battle against time which he has been waging since he learned that he might soon be forced to quit the Tour . |
| 12 | So , for example , if the Director General of Fair Trading was considering whether or not a lender 's use of a persuasive clause such as that suggested on page 39 constituted fair trading practice , we think that he might well recommend that use of such a clause should be conditional on use of the industry-wide non-profit insurance scheme . |
| 13 | Yesterday , even as he took over from Mr Krenz , he was speculating that he might soon lose his job if the East German parliament decided to replace the Council of State with an executive president . |
| 14 | He once said that he might even be able to ‘ find me a position in the City ’ . |
| 15 | Owen , feeling at last that he ought to retire from contra matters — — but remembering what he had sworn ‘ on the altar of God ’ — hoped that he might still be of use to North ‘ against another group of Godless communists . ’ |
| 16 | Now , as he watched him limping and staggering up the slope , it occurred to hint that he might actually be wounded in some way . |
| 17 | And of course sometimes during this apprenticeship Boy knew that what he really wanted was not to be taught to be one of us , not to be taught how to be a man at all , but to be reassured that he might somehow remain a boy forever . |
| 18 | If he tried to return to Earth in defiance of his oath he strongly suspected that he might never be allowed to reach the homeworld … |
| 19 | EVANDER HOLYFIELD knows that he might already have been consigned to the freak section of world heavyweight championship history had Mike Tyson taken no for an answer in that Indianapolis hotel room . |
| 20 | Alliss himself brought the match to an abrupt end holing from 10 feet at the last in a manner which suggested that he might soon be trading in the personalised number plates on his car ( PUT 3 ) . |