Example sentences of "i might [verb] him " in BNC.

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1 ‘ If he 's a good boy I might make him Chairman of the board of Ferguson Foods !
2 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 . ’
3 For example , if a person came to me suffering from rounded shoulders I might give him or her an instruction to ‘ think of your shoulders going away from each other ’ .
4 Some weeks later my brother and I were passing through London , and I asked if I might bring him to see her .
5 I might tell him " What you say is false " .
6 They say I had the vanity to suppose that I might marry him .
7 Because he 's not very well and I might say him
8 Or , if someone came to me with arthritis of the fingers , I might ask him to ‘ think of your fingers lengthening ’ .
9 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 .
10 I thought I might hit him with it and knock him out , if I did it at just the right moment .
11 ‘ I mean , ’ Simone said gently , ‘ that I might find him very attractive , despite all your dark and desperate misgivings , but it 's not mutual . ’
12 ‘ If I went to his house , I might see him . ’
13 Occasionally I might buy him the big third Mac , the third Big Mac , just to prove to him he ca n't eat it , and this establishes in the superego a , that the , the superego to some extent speaks for reality and , and the reality sense is part of the , is part of the standards which are built into , which are built into the superego , and to , and therefore to a large extent the superego opposes the pleasure principle that operates in the id .
14 I might phone him in the morning
15 I 've got his telephone number at home , I might phone him up
16 I was afraid long ago , when I hit him in the mouth with that heavy glove , that I might kill him one day .
17 Mind you , last season Leeds were crap , er , what do you think of Venables , I might have him instead , and then there 's that lad Keegan , etc etc dithering ad nauseam .
18 I let myself think I might adopt him — oh , not altogether , but just so that he could come and stay with me sometimes and I could do things for him .
19 No , I might know him by sight , but er I ca n't think of him
20 ‘ When I went to him , I had no idea that what he would say to me might bring him within the sphere of our investigation . ’
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