Example sentences of "[conj] he might give " in BNC.
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| 1 | Friends considered him so depressed during this period that they were even beginning to think the unthinkable — that he might give up and turn his back on society and all its ills , and do what he would have really chosen to do with his life : be a country squire . |
| 2 | And we must remember our interest in Livesey is only that he might give us a lead to the young girl 's killer . ’ |
| 3 | Kurchatov visited Harwell and suggested that he might give a lecture on Soviet work into thermonuclear reactions in gas discharges . |
| 4 | The Divisional Court ordered that the applicant 's motion be allowed for a declaration that before asking questions relating to an offence with which a person under investigation had been charged the Director of the Serious Fraud Office had to inform that person that he was not obliged to answer such questions but that , if they were answered , what was said might only be used in evidence against that person where he was charged with knowingly or recklessly making a false or misleading statement or where the answer was inconsistent with any evidence that he might give at a later criminal trial . |
| 5 | Hope was trembling and afraid that he might give too much away . |
| 6 | So he 's got to be careful , and he 's worried that he might give himself away by some tiny flicker of expression . |
| 7 | One moment of confusion and he might give someone away , or incriminate himself . |
| 8 | If we are intended for great ends , we are called to great hazards ; and , whereas we are given absolute certainty in nothing , we must in all things choose between doubt and inactivity , and the conviction that we are under the eye of One who , for whatever reason , exercises us with the less evidence when He might give us the greater . |