Example sentences of "he might [verb] her " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | All she had was his husky voice as he made love to her , his body against hers , and the chance to pretend to herself that he might love her as he expressed emotion through lovemaking day after day , night after night … |
| 2 | On the arrival day he considered going to meet Maggie in Carrick but he was afraid that he might miss her and decided to go to Boyle . |
| 3 | In a moment he let her go , but only so that he might lift her bodily from the ground . |
| 4 | She must ask him , she must , however forward he might think her . |
| 5 | If she did n't tell him he might accuse her of keeping something else from him and it might be best to know it all , might n't it ? |
| 6 | He stayed by Miss Groundwater 's side , and at the end , when everyone was leaving , asked if he might escort her home . |
| 7 | She despised herself for sounding so defensive , but perhaps if Luke understood he might leave her in peace . |
| 8 | At a quarter past seven she got off the bus in Bath worrying that he might stand her up . |
| 9 | She snatched her hand away from his as if she feared he might contaminate her and stalked ahead of him , not trusting herself to speak until they were inside her apartment . |
| 10 | He might want her as a doctor , but as a woman , it seemed , she was a disposable commodity . |
| 11 | If he knew how old she was he might want her to tell him what she had been doing the last few years . |
| 12 | He might want her , but he did n't love her . |
| 13 | ‘ I would n't have thought so , unless Robert Sheldrake has asked if he might bring her with him . ’ |
| 14 | how she speaks no he , he might ban her from the shop if she , if she keeps Well you know she 's called her all sorts of things in front of people . |
| 15 | She doubted if Williams were a major player — even on the telephone , he sounded a loser — but at least he might tell her who had put him up to it . |
| 16 | She wanted to know , and yet was terrified of what he might tell her . |
| 17 | Despite any explanations he might offer her , he had to remain the enemy . |
| 18 | But there again , one week you might , one month you might get a one month he might give her that and bugger all the next month ! |
| 19 | She displayed no interest in any of the social events he said he was going to and wondered if he might see her at . |
| 20 | In his present distrustful mood , he might imagine her to be a gold-digger on top of everything else . |
| 21 | Anxiously he bethought himself how he might get her in any way at all . |
| 22 | Stella hoped he might ask her to go with them but he did n't even say good-bye , not properly , let alone wish her a Merry Christmas . |
| 23 | She looked wistfully up the companionway to the square of blue sky , but fought the urge to go up on deck , scared he might ask her to do something that would reveal her ignorance . |
| 24 | She could have called his bluff and told him to drop dead , but there was just a chance he might ditch her : and then all that spade work would be for nothing . |
| 25 | Sometimes she thought from the way he seemed to watch her that he might like her too but he had never said anything and Sally was beginning to be afraid he never would . |
| 26 | It would only mean he might let her down again , and that would be asking for it . |
| 27 | Then just possibly — there were no guarantees with this sort of investment — he might let her have a child in return , if only to give him someone to abuse when they both got older . |
| 28 | Had she hoped that Simon would alert Vitor to her presence , and that he might search her out , explain he had rethought and declare undying love ? |
| 29 | The green eyes flicked up at him teasingly , but also a little apprehensively , as if she were afraid he might mock her . |
| 30 | She thought he might shoot her or her stepfather . |