Example sentences of "he might find " in BNC.
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| 1 | He smiled , giving us the impression that — after all the adulation he usually experiences — he might find that something of a relief . |
| 2 | Now I 'm not saying Ian Rush missed the boat entirely , but he might find it pretty interesting when Gullitt and Van Basten discuss their life and work in Italy on Grandstand ( BBC1 , Saturday ) . |
| 3 | Bracing himself , ready for whatever he might find at the bottom . |
| 4 | He had , she said , been unable to pass any shop in any town , any market-stall or window , for he might find a Nelson , a Gladiator , Henry Irving , a Shepherd boy with dog , twins , Dick Turpin . |
| 5 | But if you ask him to spare a couple of hours to help out at a St John Ambulance fund-raising activity or a garden fête for the church roof repair fund , he might find that a worthwhile thing to do . |
| 6 | If Mr Kinnock found himself head of a minority government and decided to ‘ soldier on ’ he might find that Sir Richard Attenborough , that grand old trouper in ‘ Luvvies for Labour ’ , could turn out to be an embarrassment . |
| 7 | In the right location , however , he might find a very profitable market for hand-harvested and threshed wheat and rye straw for thatching and horse collars . |
| 8 | If he were to go to the doctor and ask about it , he might find out — ‘ Mind yer backs ! |
| 9 | On the other hand , if your employer fails to adopt a particular rule , he might find it difficult to dismiss you summarily for breach of it . |
| 10 | If Harry wanted to play bridge , they could learn together , join a club , and he might find a chance to play bridge in the daytime when she was unavailable , and eventually get to mind less about her other activities . |
| 11 | Surely , if he could find this source then he might find a lot more ? |
| 12 | This he might find in the service of a bishop ; for many bishops in the late eleventh and twelfth centuries were coming to have large staffs of young clerks , who learned the business of ecclesiastical administration and rose to be canons or archdeacons , or were seconded or translated to the royal service . |
| 13 | Bob Crayshaw said , looking up and down the table while he shifted his cutlery around as if he might find answers in the new arrangement . |
| 14 | Paul asked where he might find a bookshop , and was told . |
| 15 | On the way it had occurred to him that he might find the police at Adam 's . |
| 16 | With a little food inside him he felt he might find composition easier . |
| 17 | ‘ If he committed himself to Britain by actually living here he might find a bit more warmth forthcoming from the British public . |
| 18 | I had never seen one , but my brother had talked of them , and I knew that he was hoping he might find one here . |
| 19 | Eadmer gives a curiously confused account of Anselm 's motives at this time , but one thing stands out clearly : Anselm would not bring about the chaos in personal relationships and conflict of obligations which he might find himself obliged to precipitate if he read the letter . |
| 20 | As I will suggest in chapter eight , the black sportsman sees sport not as a hobby , but as a central life interest , a sphere in which he might find scope for self-expression and a possible avenue out of his mundane , everyday existence . |
| 21 | In doing so he might find himself in the company of evolutionary epistemologists such as Riedl ( 1979 ) , whose over-arching theory of life as an ‘ erkenntnisgewinnender prozess ’ seems to require a unitary notion of knowledge or information , information that can be stored in a genome at one end of the evolutionary spectrum , as well as be expressed , at the other end , by scientific theories that make the world a less strange place to live in . |
| 22 | I 've thought about him a great deal and have a plan he might find useful . |
| 23 | He might find it there but she did not think he would . |
| 24 | If one knight became separated from the rest of his team he might find five or six opponents all bearing down on him at once , and one of them might strike him in the back . |
| 25 | If there were a powerful king he might find some other way of terminating disputes and for this reason the church — which was not supposed to engage in warfare — was generally in favour of a king who could provide strong government . |
| 26 | On the other hand , there is a fair chance that he might find a magic potion which will restore him to full strength and heal his wounds . |
| 27 | Further , he might find it interesting ( and salutary ) to read ( see , for example , [ 71 ] , [ 115 ] ) how such great mathematicians as Euler , d'Alembert and Daniel Bernoulli came , around 1750 , to arguing about their respective solutions to the " vibrating string " problem essentially because their ideas as to what constituted a function did not coincide . |
| 28 | He might have sexual desires , he might find certain people attractive . |
| 29 | Simon was made aware that he might find himself obliged to stand down as a Parliamentary candidate if he failed to make an honest woman out of the Press Lord 's daughter . |
| 30 | For the first time it occurred to Katherine as a conscious thought that he might find life with her mother a trial in ways which did n't only concern her . |