Example sentences of "[that] [pron] might [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knew the long list of silver almost by heart and counted it monthly that nothing might go astray . |
| 2 | ‘ I think , ’ he said , ‘ that everyone might have been flung about a bit . |
| 3 | ‘ I thought , ’ she said , ignoring her father 's advice to treat him with kid gloves , ‘ not that it 's any business of yours , that I might potter into Nice for the day . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Now as I said , I 'm perfectly aware that the only proper and permissible response on the part of any young climber worth his or her salt to any views that I might hold , is that they 're those of an irredeemably antiquated never-was-been . |
| 6 | Leslie thrust it into my hand , thinking that I might want to keep it — surely a prophetic gesture . |
| 7 | ‘ Were you perhaps hoping that I might fail to keep our appointment ? ’ |
| 8 | I 'm not planning to try so hard for it that I might break down . ’ |
| 9 | As always I got up at once so that I might cherish the ninety minutes until we assembled for work — minutes that were mine — not the authorities . |
| 10 | The fact that I might choose to play something pretty much as a rhythm part one night will suggest something musically to these guys . |
| 11 | I replied that I was sorry to hear it but that I might return to him later , and enclosed a copy of Pursuit . |
| 12 | Before I ever had healing I was told that I might feel tingling or warmth , but alas , I can not truthfully say that I ever felt either , although of course , with hands laid on you , or just above you , there must be the sensation of touch . |
| 13 | You 're afraid , both of you , that I might discover Mom is n't dead at all , are n't you ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ WHAT worried me was that I might discover I could n't write at all . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ If you could , perhaps , make some suggestions , you see , so that I might move things along … ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Well , all this business putting me on the carpet … implying that I might leave you short . ’ |
| 17 | Another name can be crossed firmly off the IBM Corp list : John Sculley , chairman of Apple Computer Inc has now gone on the record saying ‘ I would like to respond to the persistent rumours that I might leave Apple and go to IBM — I have told Apple 's board of directors and our executive management team that I am not available or interested in being chief executive of IBM ; I believe Apple has a tremendous opportunity to be extremely successful in the years ahead , and Apple will be the most important innovator and leader in the industry ; 10 years ago this April I signed up to do a job , and there is still a lot that I would like to accomplish with all of us ; ‘ I hope this statement will put to rest the speculation that I might go to IBM , and also serve as a clear message of the confidence that I have in Apple , ’ he declared . |
| 18 | Another name can be crossed firmly off the IBM Corp list : John Sculley , chairman of Apple Computer Inc has now gone on the record saying ‘ I would like to respond to the persistent rumours that I might leave Apple and go to IBM — I have told Apple 's board of directors and our executive management team that I am not available or interested in being chief executive of IBM ; I believe Apple has a tremendous opportunity to be extremely successful in the years ahead , and Apple will be the most important innovator and leader in the industry ; 10 years ago this April I signed up to do a job , and there is still a lot that I would like to accomplish with all of us ; I hope this statement will put to rest the speculation that I might go to IBM , and also serve as a clear message of the confidence that I have in Apple , ’ he declared . |
| 19 | My mother , having been deprived of one prospective son-in-law , Cedric , now got it in to her head that I might meet an American , and decide to marry him and live the rest of my life in the USA , where she could n't get at me and see what was going on . |
| 20 | The most I can hope for is that I might meet him over a pint and get him to be indiscreet-tell me if there is any dirt on Desmond Seymour-Strachey , for example . ’ |
| 21 | But it would be possible that I might end up back at Ritchie Motors . |
| 22 | It was a make or break meeting and I was scared that I might end up getting violent — I was bunging it all up , trying to keep my mind balanced . |
| 23 | But Basil encouraged and even found some tiny portion of my painting which could be developed though he agreed that I might copy more easily than imagine and he gave me a mounted butterfly to draw . |
| 24 | It was not simply terror that I might invade his study and his solitude ; it was terror that I might invade his heart . |
| 25 | It was not simply terror that I might invade his study and his solitude ; it was terror that I might invade his heart . |
| 26 | ‘ I thought that I might do an article to celebrate it ; describe the problems they face , and their success in tackling them . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I early found that I had not the literary ability to give me such a place among English authors as I should have desired ; but I thought that I had an opportunity of gaining a knowledge of many of the distinguished men of the age , and that I might do some good by keeping a record of my interviews with them . ’ |
| 28 | It had been running through my thoughts so often that I knew it by heart , yet now I was suddenly afraid that I might do the wrong thing ! |
| 29 | OK , I knew I was better than anyone in my school , but it never occurred to me that I might do it as a profession . ’ |
| 30 | Verona was far away and I had never lived away from home ; besides , I was not sure that my parents had ever contemplated the possibility that I might do so . |