Example sentences of "might [vb infin] [conj] she [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was concentrating on the speed and length which her stride might attain as she hurried up the long slope . |
| 2 | Almost one might feel that she has herself directed matters in miraculous fashion , protecting herself and her devotees even among such perils . ’ |
| 3 | Nor to be reminded of their smouldering resentments against this girl of their of age who was so ‘ lady-like ’ and ‘ nose-in-the-air ’ so that they might feel that she needed to be brought down a peg or two . |
| 4 | ‘ She was afraid of what he might do when she told him she was n't going to keep up the pretence any longer and everything she did in future was to be sold as her own work . ’ |
| 5 | do you want some posters for Gordon and Adam , well I can only lend you a couple of ones , but those might do if she turns them over |
| 6 | He had feared he might choke when she stuffed chunks of it into his mouth and held him down , her hand sealing his lips , until he swallowed . |
| 7 | ‘ Did n't she understand that it might look like she had bought him off with bribery ? ’ the leader asked . |
| 8 | ‘ Perfectly , ’ she replied , and preceded him out of the lift very much aware that , no matter how conscience and love might insist that she make a clean breast of everything , to confess was something she simply could not do . |
| 9 | Worried that leaving it in the basket might suggest that she had been up to no good , the girl ran downstairs starkers with her boyfriend in hot pursuit , playfully offering to help . |
| 10 | Katrine was afraid of what might happen if she did n't pay up . |
| 11 | It was almost like flying , this running downhill towards a friend who might vanish if she delayed . |
| 12 | I put her name down for the local hospice without her permission , because although she defiantly insisted she did n't want anything to do with it , I thought things might change as she deteriorated . |
| 13 | Now she was perplexed and afraid ; perplexed because she did not understand what had happened , and afraid of what it might mean if she did . |
| 14 | ‘ And for all we know Ma might realise that she has n't been to see her . ’ |
| 15 | The time might come when she arranges a small dinner party , produces an ‘ impossible ’ soufflé or a perfect pavlova and surprises herself even more than she surprises her friends . |
| 16 | Some might say it presents an idealistic picture of family life ; others that it is a reactionary attempt to turn the clock back on the women 's movement ; yet others might argue that she has gone beyond the available evidence in concluding , or at least implying , that delinquency might result from early day-care experiences . |
| 17 | But no , for Dorothea might ask if she felt well enough to go away , might start prying into her affairs . |