Example sentences of "he might [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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1 | No matter he might stop being a soldier if something changes in that family to bring him back ( though I ca n't see that happening , the Talvi are the kind who never have a change of heart ) . |
2 | Carlo and McGowan stood on either side of the embalmer , he might 've been in custody . |
3 | He woke on top of her , she might 've been a beach , he might 've been abandoned there by waves . |
4 | He was looking at the ground , he seemed to be concentrating ; he might 've been trying to remember something . |
5 | More even than our present MPs he would have to ensure that any success he might achieve was widely reported . |
6 | Gandhi claims that it can not be used in an unjust cause but what he might mean is that it should not be used in an unjust cause . |
7 | He might have been obeyed . |
8 | ‘ Make me an offer , ’ he might have been saying . |
9 | And I accept that he might have been upset but there are no polemics , so why destroy a great victory ? |
10 | In a similar way he might have been surprised by the figure he cut in prose or come to that in life . |
11 | He might have been small but Roy Fredericks hit the ball exceptionally hard . |
12 | He might have been stumped on 44 but that was the only chance he gave . |
13 | If he had allowed her to take him back to London , he might have been stuck for life with a woman in her thirties ( and getting older by the day ) . |
14 | Dot guessed he might have been only pretending . |
15 | And still without needing to turn my head , but looking straight to the front , and walking at the same even pace along the path , I was conscious of a man perched motionless on the top bar of the gate , one leg over , so still that he might have been part of the gate itself . |
16 | He might have been killed ! ’ |
17 | He might have been drowned , or savaged by that stupid animal . ’ |
18 | The only impressions from his heavy sleep which touched him with a faintest trace were mysteriously , elusively compounded of plumed candle flame , drumming rain , a ship held by ice , huddled sheep , and a malignant shadow stooped-muttering over a desk or table or bench in a room or a cell he thought he might have been able to recognize if only he could have opened his eyes . |
19 | The only impressions from his heavy sleep which touched him with a faintest trace were elusively compounded of dank , dripping trees , dazzling headlights , stairways , huddled sheep , a ship held by ice mast-high , and a sick man with skin blotched with words gibbering upon a bed in a room in a house he thought he might have been able to recognize if only he could have opened his eyes . |
20 | Wrapped up in his agreeably muddled versions of events , he might have been speaking from Mars : and with this last screen show , this cinematic oddity , the scandal sank away . |
21 | He might have been hiding … heard Harry 's car arrive . ’ |
22 | He might have been intending to go back to his family and appear utterly horrified while breaking the news of my death . |
23 | Presumably he was drunk , but he might have been ill , or even dead . |
24 | He might have been in the mill . ’ |
25 | Jackie looked as if he might have been going to put a hand on Biff 's arm . |
26 | He might have been about six . |
27 | People thought he might have been joking , but he was n't . |
28 | Had he been English he might have been described as a typical eccentric . |
29 | Robert , the Duke of Normandy , was in Italy at that time , otherwise he might have been able to challenge Henry . |
30 | He might have been listening to Moses when he came down from the mountain . |