Example sentences of "he might be " in BNC.
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| 1 | None of that would of course be comprehensible to Moss and McGrindle , he wrote , to Pizzetti and Baiocchi , to Goldman and Goldstein , though Goldberg , to his credit , has had an inkling , has to some extent faced the thought that he might be wasting his whole life , for that 's what it comes down to in the end , he wrote , wasting a whole life when something useful might have been salvaged , something valuable perhaps , it is the refusal of those alternatives that occasionally makes one shiver . |
| 2 | He was tall , and he looked as if he might be good at something decent like cricket . |
| 3 | If he could find convincing words to say it in one striking and memorable phrase , he might be truly on his way . |
| 4 | He might be less likely to dismiss Pope John Paul II as the stooge of a defunct ideology , yet there is plenty in the conservative tradition of Vatican thinking which is just as subversive of his attempt to present consumerist liberal society as ‘ final ’ . |
| 5 | If Mr Gorbachev believed he could acquire a breathing space through repression , during which the economy could be transformed by unpopular but necessary reforms , he might be willing to pay the price , but this would reverse his strategy of the past three years . |
| 6 | They will not tell you a lot about what 's going to make him tick as an adult , except that he might be good at a particular academic subject . ’ |
| 7 | If Mr Lawson was , he might be happy to see the pound fall to ease the burden on companies . |
| 8 | In the night he might be heard running up and down his attic bedroom banging the wall at each end , and keeping other people awake . |
| 9 | The result of all this politics — and Ramsey 's sense that he might be reading the wrong subject , because his interests were now more modern than ancient — meant that his classics did not go as might be expected of someone who won a scholarship . |
| 10 | For the first time since he was a professor at Cambridge , he began to hope , though with modesty , that he might be chosen for the work . |
| 11 | His mind filled with primitive lore and with a sense of awkwardness at the numerous exhausting social roles he had to play in addition to that of the London banker , Eliot wrote to Mary Hutchinson in 1920 worrying about his inherited characteristics and suggesting that he might be a savage himself . |
| 12 | Initially he might be fed about every 4 hours . |
| 13 | • The patient 's perception of his environment and his response to it is likely to be grossly reduced , since he might be unconscious or paralysed , for example . |
| 14 | Naturally the glorious weather was a talking point with the General : he might be forgiven for thinking the Micks were a bit blasé about the temperature and the change of scene from London ceremonial duties . |
| 15 | not unhappy at staying away from a western business man , even though he might be a temporary guest of the State ; after all , they were permanent guests and who knew but … . |
| 16 | His father had been ‘ under the weather , since July , and Lewis was half-aware that he might be coming home for the last time . |
| 17 | He prayed he might be forgiven whatever deficiency in him had contributed to her waywardness . |
| 18 | Chris Singh thought he might be tempted to borrow . |
| 19 | In those days we thought he might be a ballet dancer ’ . |
| 20 | The allies have to remember that , even if Mr Hussein were to fall upon his ( or someone else 's ) sword tomorrow , he might be replaced the following day by someone just as dangerous and aggressive . |
| 21 | For that reason , he might be acceptable as a temporary chief . |
| 22 | She wondered if he might be Jeffrey Archer in disguise doing his research . |
| 23 | Nigel agreed that he might be tempted to behave in that way again . |
| 24 | Perhaps he might be Liam Shakespeare after all . |
| 25 | He had a feeling there would be something complicated about a safety catch , but he might be able to work it out . |
| 26 | He insinuated that my ‘ business ’ must be something utterly depraved , far worse than anything he might be going to do . |
| 27 | When I could n't find him , I was worried he might be there , pinching her money . |
| 28 | But by August 1958 both sides realized that world opinion was turning against them , partly as a result of the scientists ' warnings , partly out of revulsion and fear , partly because nuclear disarmament had begun to be a popular political issue — and nothing makes a politician have second thoughts faster than the awareness that he might be losing votes . |
| 29 | The fact that he might be taking a considerable risk only added to his excitement . |
| 30 | Or he might be handed a file and a tiny silver tool with which to clean her toenails while she dozed in a chair . |