Example sentences of "he might not be [adv] " in BNC.

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1 him but er he might not be up in time anyway , cos he 's got a lot of work to do and he thinks he might be up all night tonight , in which case , he wo n't be getting up very early in the morning .
2 ‘ Of course , he might not be geographically correct , but it makes a good story . ’
3 Let's just consider the political problem though you have still got a problem selling it to a lot of MP s , if they 're listening to this interview and they are concluding , maybe rightly , maybe wrongly , that actually things are n't changing very much , and they may think they 've been sold a pup with these amendments , indeed I hear that some of them have had to be bought off , well , is it true that one of them was sent off to Peru on an on an election er supervision mission in order that he might not be around when the bill came up .
4 He might not be quite the regal material the Tongan people were looking for , and as his wheezing old father — born in 1918 , still fit , but neither infallible nor immortal — tottered around the herbaceous borders , I fancied , or perhaps dreaded , that soon we might see the kingdom fall and a republic rise in its place , and the monarchy he represented fall victim to the spirit of the age , as ancient and outworn as Captain Cook 's old tortoise .
5 " He might not be back tonight .
6 If it were on the very fringe of his area he might not be back until lunch-time .
7 I mean I do n't know when he 's , he might not be in for another two or three hours , I do n't , I really do n't know .
8 She watched , not pursuing in what event he might not be there to make it himself .
9 He was meeting the lads at seven and I was n't to wait up as he might not be home till February ( a chip off the old block ) .
10 Yeah well he might not be home till late you see so we 've got we 've really got to wait so Geoff will probably ring this man when he come home .
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