Example sentences of "[that] [pron] might [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Still , however , I cherished the fantasy that I might one day have a son who would fulfil that dream , and always he had Leslie 's eyes , dark , with soft expressive light .
2 I made no notes of these visits to Out Patients , for at the time I had no idea that I might one day feel my experience with cancer sufficiently interesting to write about .
3 It never crossed my mind that I might one day have to fight .
4 The second reason was that , even were she to have a successful pregnancy and birth , she was terrified that she might one day be carrying her child in her arms when she fainted and might then drop or hurt the child in some way .
5 Hakim said he never knew what it was going to be used for next ; on an organisation chart he left a column for Africa , since North had hinted that he might one day do something there too .
6 The appointment of court organist there was finally offered to Mozart , with the indication that he might one day become Kapellmeister .
7 He had seemed certain to become the first black Tory MP , representing Cheltenham — Norman Tebbit had tipped him as the first black cabinet minister and there 'd even been the odd hint that he might one day inhabit No 10 .
8 John , like Clement , worked hard to secure the king at home and abroad so that he might one day embark on the crusade : the barons , the Scots , and the French were all pressured by John on Edward 's behalf .
9 But underneath this camp humour lay the constant dread that he might one day incur conviction and imprisonment .
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