Example sentences of "he might [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He may suffer a severe personality change from which he might not recover . |
| 2 | Unless one presumed to know God 's purposes , how could one know that He might not achieve them by varying the quantity of motion ? |
| 3 | ‘ Well , ’ said the Guider , ‘ he might not realise that she ca n't afford to visit him ; relatives do n't always think about points like that , and Miss Miggs would never tell him . |
| 4 | He might not do much talking back himself . |
| 5 | He might not admit it but he would be . ’ |
| 6 | He might not admit it but he would be . ’ |
| 7 | She had to accept the fact that he might not return to the convent and , sad though it made her , she would often lay her cheek against the rough heather and whisper his name . |
| 8 | There were plenty of other tasks for all three to get on with , and he might not bring Phyllis Henley tomorrow , he would prefer a more conciliatory personality , although she certainly knew her district . |
| 9 | I wondered if I should tell him this , and decided he might not think it funny . |
| 10 | The past had not changed , so he might not change either . |
| 11 | ‘ I do n't believe he likes Brownies , ’ she confided to her best friend , Mary Trent , ‘ and if he does n't and Brown Owl married him he might not want her to go on being our Brown Owl . ’ |
| 12 | Now I began to understand why he might not want unexpected visits , or gossip . |
| 13 | When he broke his neck and doctors said he might not race again , he discharged himself and was on the circuit again within seven weeks . |
| 14 | Austin McHale , Fisher 's main challenger for the Tarmac crown until he was forced out of the Ulster Rally , hinted that he might not appear again this season and , of course , is not listed among the entries for the Manx International in 10 days time . |
| 15 | ‘ He might not stand out so much in North America , where even the garbage collector appears on TV and talks with confidence , but in Britain this is something different . ’ |
| 16 | Trouble was , if he put his head down then he might not wake up again for 24 hours . |
| 17 | At times Ludens wondered whether this state of affairs might not go on for ever , whether he might not give up his job and become Marcus 's — what ? — friend , secretary , servant , dog . |
| 18 | And during that terrible evening by the fireside , when she told him her story , how desperately sad she had been to realize he might not love her any more . |
| 19 | He might not love Didi , but he intended to marry her as soon as he had the ring , and he 'd only persuaded her to return to New York to facilitate matters and save a possible clash … |
| 20 | He maintained that Philip was trying to keep him at war in Scotland ‘ so that he might not pursue his rights elsewhere ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ Last week he might not have . |
| 22 | MacDonald said that he ‘ might be of no further use , & should resign with the whole Cabinet ’ ; the night before his interview with the King , Baldwin had gone to Neville Chamberlain 's house in Eaton Square , and ‘ hoped and prayed that he might not have to join a National Government ’ ; even after his interview with the King . |
| 23 | He did n't like the sound of that much , so he changed his mind and said he might not have time , anyway , after his other reading in a church hall . |
| 24 | Perkin had always been presumed to be busy in his workshop , and yet there were hours and days when he might not have been , when Mackie was out of the house seeing to the horses . |
| 25 | I wondered if he might not have some spontaneous feeling in my defence . |
| 26 | He might not have involved himself too much in the day-to-day running of the club , yet I was never in any doubt as to who made the final decisions . |
| 27 | John Aubrey records how Thomas Hobbes , the philosopher , was ‘ put into a Woollen shroud ’ at his death in 1679 , arguing that had Hobbes received the £100 per annum pension granted by Charles II in 1660 — ‘ At the Restoration , Charles II awarded him a pension of £100 a year — which , however , His Majesty forgot to pay ’ — then he might not have been buried in such a common shift . |
| 28 | He might not have thought he deserved the Man of the Match award on Wednesday night , but there can be no denying that the return of Gascoigne has transformed Taylor 's England from a farce to a force . |
| 29 | He might not have connected solidly with Jack Johnson — and his style was made for Muhammad Ali . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ And if they had been discussed then he might not have gone . |