Example sentences of "he might [be] " in BNC.

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1 Canst thoo tell me where 'e might be ? ’
2 'E might be finkin' o' gettin' the money by knockin' around wiv that Rovver'ithe mob . ’
3 'E told me 'e might be late an' not ter wait up , ’ Sadie went on .
4 Mr Rushdie hoped the fatwa against him might be lifted .
5 We shall have more to say about this in the next chapter : it was to produce a quite bewildering variety of ‘ reconstructions ’ of Jesus ' personality and history , having for the most part only one thing in common — the conviction that whatever the truth about him might be , it was not the traditional Christian picture of him .
6 What the outcome of seeing him might be is beside the point ; I have become incapable of calculation .
7 " If there is anything in my suspicions , a letter addressed to him might be opened by someone privy to the forgery or fraud .
8 She had n't suspected the curiosity she felt about him might be reciprocated .
9 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 .
10 He was tall , and he looked as if he might be good at something decent like cricket .
11 If he could find convincing words to say it in one striking and memorable phrase , he might be truly on his way .
12 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 ’ .
13 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 .
14 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 . ’
15 If Mr Lawson was , he might be happy to see the pound fall to ease the burden on companies .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 Initially he might be fed about every 4 hours .
21 • 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 .
22 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 .
23 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 … .
24 His father had been ‘ under the weather , since July , and Lewis was half-aware that he might be coming home for the last time .
25 He prayed he might be forgiven whatever deficiency in him had contributed to her waywardness .
26 Chris Singh thought he might be tempted to borrow .
27 In those days we thought he might be a ballet dancer ’ .
28 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 .
29 For that reason , he might be acceptable as a temporary chief .
30 She wondered if he might be Jeffrey Archer in disguise doing his research .
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