Example sentences of "[that] [pron] might [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | They say I had the vanity to suppose that I might marry him . |
| 3 | ‘ I mean , ’ Simone said gently , ‘ that I might find him very attractive , despite all your dark and desperate misgivings , but it 's not mutual . ’ |
| 4 | I was afraid long ago , when I hit him in the mouth with that heavy glove , that I might kill him one day . |
| 5 | That was not unusual on the Monday after a tournament , so I decided to drive to his house in Clapham in the hope that I might intercept him either on the way in from a long lunch or on the way out for a pre-prandial drink . |
| 6 | Patrick had made it a rule that he was never to be disturbed in the mornings , but that she might bring him urgent interruptions in the afternoon . |
| 7 | ‘ You sound desperate , ’ he chided with a smile of pleasure at the thought that she might miss him . |
| 8 | She had refused to get up , now held his legs in a hug , and her face against his thighs , turning now one cheek then the other into the material of his trousers , just below his crotch , and he was dismayed that she might smell him , that his buttoned flies , however spick — and they were freshly laundered — might carry some old aroma all the same , for he knew how bodies animate and inform even the most lifeless paraphernalia , how Maria Filippa marked her hairbrush , her pillow , her section of the wardrobe , as surely with her scent as a roe leaves spoor for a hunting dog in a forest . |
| 9 | She even thought that she might leave him . |
| 10 | Previously he had had no worry about her possible infidelity or that she might leave him for a more effective performer . |
| 11 | On the other hand , on a different occasion she expressed feelings of depression and powerlessness in the face of professional opinion , conceding that she might allow him to go to residential school if it could be shown that it was in his best interests . |
| 12 | I had hoped that you might persuade him to help us again . ’ |
| 13 | One of the most beautiful of these represents a thirsty man , whose desire for water is represented in the most lively manner as he kneels on the ground to drink from a spring , with such wonderful reality that one might imagine him to be a real person . |
| 14 | Omar learnt that he was related to the Sultan , and we hoped that we might persuade him to provide us with a guide to Aussa . |
| 15 | To begin to call out to God to fill us with his Spirit that we might know him better is what is needed . |
| 16 | The two unattached women seemed to have been drawn together perhaps by their very unattachedness but more certainly by Rupert Stonebird 's dinner party and the idea that they might meet him in Rome . |
| 17 | The man 's mind is in such a state that it might unhinge him completely . |
| 18 | He wanted to look around for Carter despite his fear that he might see him . |