Example sentences of "[pron] she might " in BNC.
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| 1 | So she knew that in the few years since she had last been in England great changes had begun to take place from some of which she might clearly benefit . |
| 2 | How strange that from all the many places to which she might have been drafted , chance had come up with Ardneavie . |
| 3 | It seemed to me that she looked older than she was , using her age as a shield against unwelcome advances which she might secretly long for but would never permit . |
| 4 | At the same time , in contrast to earlier eras , the housework is more likely to be carried out in isolation , without reference to others or without any external standard of comparison from which she might derive status or recognition for her particular skills as a cook or a housewife . |
| 5 | Finding out about Kettering was , she thought , a private game which she might set herself to play on this holiday . |
| 6 | And she was well past the point at which she might have stopped her headlong dive into that dizzying state . |
| 7 | Maria turned clear eyes , golden-brown tonight , on Luke and said what needed to be said , eschewing preamble , cleverness and a host of other possible costumes in which she might have dressed it up . |
| 8 | So she may believe that her price is higher than she initially expected because of a relative demand shift in her favour , which she might just as well take advantage of by supplying more output . |
| 9 | Having ignored her for forty minutes whilst they failed to answer questions about Amy to which she might know the answer , Theodora might perhaps have been forgiven for telling them nothing . |
| 10 | The Prime Minister announced on Nov. 26 that some months earlier the Queen had asked him to consider the basis on which she might voluntarily pay tax on her personal income and also take responsibility for certain payments to additional members of the royal family ; the Prince of Wales had made a similar request with regard to the Duchy of Cornwall . |
| 11 | But he stood there watching until the little car had disappeared , as though Ellen were setting off on a long and dangerous journey from which she might never return . |
| 12 | She held the bag between them , suddenly not daring to put it down in case it signalled something , the consequences of which she might regret . |
| 13 | Somehow , she had a need to know all she could about him — and in there lay the conflict — because whatever she would have asked , or learned , was not for any write-up which she might hand over to her sister for her use , but was private and personal , and for her alone . |
| 14 | So suddenly fatherless , and so abruptly given to a husband , translated from the familiar company of her sisters at Brecon to this barbarous foreign court where she was the last and loneliest of the children , Isabella had looked round her forlornly for an anchorage to which she might ride in safety . |
| 15 | So Angela did n't want to get involved — she did n't need the capital , after all — and she said to me she might do it in a year or so when Miss Huntley had calmed down . ’ |
| 16 | They thought she might be having a baby , and if she really wanted to hurt them she could tell them she might be . |
| 17 | In them she might have seen her reflection . |
| 18 | If there was any hope for her , it was indisputable that the outlook was grim for anyone with whom she might come in contact . |
| 19 | When Ruth climbed into her bed that night Miss Beard was packing for her next day 's departure and she was far more talkative than usual , regaling Ruth with the names and pedigrees of notables with whom she might be privileged to breathe the same air . |
| 20 | Who knows whom she might meet ? |
| 21 | Well we 're still continuing to monitor the situation we 're still carrying on inquiries at er at schools we 're going further afield now in case there is some suggestion that she she might be living further afield er towards Worksop or even in towards Derbyshire . |
| 22 | I said she she might well come back to you . |
| 23 | I mean she she might want to buy a nice desk . |
| 24 | He had no idea who she might be . |
| 25 | The roars and cheers of the crowd covered any sound she made and , like a wraith , she made for the stairs , sweating even in the bleak February cold at the thought of who she might meet in the unknown upstairs . |
| 26 | Wycliffe said : ‘ The lawyer thought there was a woman but he had no idea who she might be . |
| 27 | she 's one of them people who she might be a little bit like hard to talk to at first |
| 28 | Well if it was dark and she could n't see you she might have put her arm out and hit you it does n't what it feels like is n't always what it is if you see what I mean . |
| 29 | Robyn rose early to skies that promised a truly blissful day of warm summer sunshine , showered and dressed and then drove off in her dilapidated jeep which was packed to the gunwales with everything she might possibly need for the day ahead . |
| 30 | ‘ Use mine , ’ Piper said , pulling Miles away before he said something she might regret . |