Example sentences of "that he might [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aggers ' biggest worry was that he might make a fool of himself bowling at Gooch after being out of the game for two years . |
| 2 | Jackie goes upstairs to phone her husband at work , so that he might make a trip to the shops before visiting hour . |
| 3 | Kurchatov visited Harwell and suggested that he might give a lecture on Soviet work into thermonuclear reactions in gas discharges . |
| 4 | MOREOVER , individual examples of bias , such as the one I detected when Paddy Ashdown was allowed to get away with the ridiculous notion that he might do a deal with John Major just as easily as with Neil Kinnock , need to be balanced against the election coverage as a whole . |
| 5 | President Gorbachev 's special envoy Yevgeny Primakov visited Iraq twice in October , but suggestions that he might elicit a change in the Iraqi stance proved unfounded . |
| 6 | He is a natural actor and I thought that he might have a part in the play . |
| 7 | Macaulay was attributing rather too much blame to Frederick II of Prussia when he wrote ‘ in order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend , black men fought on the coast of Coromandel , and red men scalped each other by the Great Lakes of North America . ’ |
| 8 | As his series of meetings progressed , some at Chartwell , some in London , there was even fear on the part of Jones and Davidson that he might get a settlement in the absence of the Prime Minister and thus damage Baldwin 's position . |
| 9 | Emerging in his mind was the thought that he might become a writer . |
| 10 | He finds his run unenjoyable and frustrating , not to mention worrying because of the increasing risk that he might receive a knee injury , or worse . |