Example sentences of "that [pers pn] might [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He suggested that I might give a dinner to the leading newspaper editors and proprietors , when he could make some statement calculated to neutralise some of the undoubted venom that was then directed at him . |
| 2 | I have worked , I have exhausted myself day in day out , for years , and nobody has ever considered my age or health , it never entered my mother 's head that I might welcome a break , new surroundings , a chance to be waited on . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm keeping my fingers crossed that I might get a bit of it to strengthen the squad . ’ |
| 4 | A curate at St Luke 's , an older man from the West Indies , almost persuaded my parents to let me go out to Codrington College in the West Indies , but my headmaster was firm against this , expressing the hope that I might get a scholarship to an English university . |
| 5 | ‘ It did n't occur to you that I might have a lot on my mind ? |
| 6 | I feel that I might prove a hindrance rather than a help . ’ |
| 7 | We were invited to stay with friends living in Northern Burgundy , and to visit a painting school at La Buia , in Umbria , with the idea that I might take a class there in May 1993. there was some discussion , earlier in the year , of another in Venice , and we will break our journey there , for breakfast , next week . |
| 8 | It never occurred to me that I might become a poet — partly because there were no books in the damp little prefab where we lived . |
| 9 | She says she does get worried that she might miss a change . |
| 10 | Did he , then , believe that she might present a threat to Rob 's engagement — to a girl he liked and approved of ? |
| 11 | ‘ But do n't start getting any ideas that she might throw a fit of jealousy . |
| 12 | The anti-smoking campaigner — who played JR — wrote to the former premier to say many Americans were dismayed that she might become a consultant . |
| 13 | Well it makes you feel that you might do a bit of work with something |
| 14 | Mr Beckenham — I mean , Lord Dacre — wanted you to have the security of your home so that you might have a choice about your future . ’ |
| 15 | I began to see that you might have a grain of truth lurking there somewhere , and the more I thought about it the more it made sense . |
| 16 | They just do n't actually have that information , a lot of small local groups , and I think maybe the C B S could work with the Engineers department in future years and try to get to those groups , because I 'm sure a lot of them , actually if they were given the opportunity in time to get in , that , that you might have a lot of people applying for flag and whatever than you do now . |
| 17 | How much more quickly does my hon. Friend think that we might achieve a balance between exports and imports when we introduce a minimum wage , increase taxes on investment , increase personal taxes and allow the trade unions to ride rough shod once again ? |
| 18 | There were even rumblings that we might represent a sort of Karmic return of this man — who had apparently shared our obsession for their sailing craft , as well as for Bira 's surrounding wildlife . " |
| 19 | We have evidence of cannibalism and other habits that we might consider a trifle unsavoury , but this does not mean that Neanderthal society was necessarily uncivilized . |
| 20 | So many of us keep so many medicines on our shelves for donkeys years in the hope that we might find a pill that will suit us at some time . |
| 21 | I think it 's a sad indictment of our so called democratic system when they are afraid of having an elected head of state , that they are afraid that we might have a dictator ! |
| 22 | We were seeing a steady growth in fee income of around 15% in the Newport office , and when we made the decision to move , there was n't a single indicator that we might see a downturn . |
| 23 | I always held that view and did all I could to press for an election before Christmas in order that we might get a majority large enough to stand the racket . " |
| 24 | So saying , she bustled Theda back behind the curtain , bidding her change quickly that they might visit a milliner , and prudently went away to confer with Antoinette . |
| 25 | The whole process had become discredited once various members of the indigent upper classes had taken to hiring themselves out as proxy mothers to daughters of self-made industrialists , in order that they might contract a marriage with a desperate aristo . |
| 26 | Which I suspect the odd tory MP having a heart attack , falling under a bus , the loss of directions might actually mean that they might see a degree of sense in borough capping . |
| 27 | How cast his shadow over the imaginations of their daughters before their squires beget upon them that they might breed a race less ignoble than their own ? |
| 28 | As far as they have been able to check , they believe that they are the only two Scottish CAs in partnership together in Australia , but we would be interested in hearing from anyone who thinks that they might have a claim to that title . |
| 29 | They seemed to know when the tragedy of the previous night had occurred , and had maybe come to the theatre in such numbers in the vague hope that they might get a repeat showing . |
| 30 | When we were shown into the chargé 's office , I studiously avoided shaking hands or having any eye contact , determined to alert him to the fact that I understood and respected their religious customs , in the hope that it might make a difference . |