Example sentences of "he might [be] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thought that he might be dealing with a supernatural force did not enter his mind . |
| 2 | He might be staying at Southampton , Long Island , with an American newspaper tycoon , or visiting distant American cousins at Newport . |
| 3 | Combined operations became the commando 's métier and he would become as accustomed to calling up a battleship 's gunnery officer or the leader of a flight of rocket firing Typhoon aircraft as he might be radioing for mortar fire from his own Heavy Weapons Troop . |
| 4 | He might be legitimising Goldsmiths ' current practice ( in which , ironically , women are very active participants ) and he might be pandering to a new Europeanisation … but the notion that Arte povera , in this limited manifestation , is ‘ representative of a crucial revolutionary moment — even of the last possible revolutionary moment ’ is a load of cobblers . |
| 5 | How do you know she 's left you ? ’ asked Pascoe , still suspicious that he might be listening to the self-deceiving euphemism of murder . |
| 6 | For example , he may want to see whether the chief constable has been making use of civilian resources as well as he should , and he might be saying to the inspectorate of constabulary , ’ If you can demonstrate a better use of money and resources through civilianisation , that might have a bearing on the availability of uniformed police officers . ’ |
| 7 | I thought he might be going to Canon Wheeler 's . ’ |
| 8 | Yes he has , he 's just been up there to do them cos he thought he might be going to school now he 's decided he 's not so we 'll put the school clothes away again . |
| 9 | Stephen said he might be going to the Murray . |
| 10 | Speedie explained later : ‘ When the fan ran on I thought he might be going for the referee , so I tried to intervene . |
| 11 | Similarly , a patient with dyspepsia would need an internal examination by a consultant because he might be suffering from an ulcer which could be quickly treated by drugs , preventing weeks of suffering . |
| 12 | Liking Julia as he did , admiring her stringent intelligence , her honesty , the unexpected humility that would never let her give advice unless she was asked for it , and her unfailing reasonableness , it had never occurred to him that he might be falling in love with her . |
| 13 | If my lover was having sex with someone else and it was just a one night stand or something insignificant , it would be far less important to me than some sort of emotional thing that he might be having with someone else . |
| 14 | She mused , but without real curiosity , on what he might be doing at this very moment to that unknown cadaver , young or old , male or female . |
| 15 | ‘ What d' you think he might be talking about ? ’ asked Milton innocently . |
| 16 | He has a tutor , a retired teacher who visits the house for mathematics and is following a traditional and largely irrelevant course in it ( such as he might be following at school ) and he is learning quite sufficient about mathematics in context apart from that ( shades of Cockcroft ! ) |