Example sentences of "[Wh det] she might " in BNC.
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| 1 | So she knew that in the few years since she had last been in England great changes had begun to take place from some of which she might clearly benefit . |
| 2 | How strange that from all the many places to which she might have been drafted , chance had come up with Ardneavie . |
| 3 | It seemed to me that she looked older than she was , using her age as a shield against unwelcome advances which she might secretly long for but would never permit . |
| 4 | At the same time , in contrast to earlier eras , the housework is more likely to be carried out in isolation , without reference to others or without any external standard of comparison from which she might derive status or recognition for her particular skills as a cook or a housewife . |
| 5 | Finding out about Kettering was , she thought , a private game which she might set herself to play on this holiday . |
| 6 | And she was well past the point at which she might have stopped her headlong dive into that dizzying state . |
| 7 | Maria turned clear eyes , golden-brown tonight , on Luke and said what needed to be said , eschewing preamble , cleverness and a host of other possible costumes in which she might have dressed it up . |
| 8 | So she may believe that her price is higher than she initially expected because of a relative demand shift in her favour , which she might just as well take advantage of by supplying more output . |
| 9 | Having ignored her for forty minutes whilst they failed to answer questions about Amy to which she might know the answer , Theodora might perhaps have been forgiven for telling them nothing . |
| 10 | The Prime Minister announced on Nov. 26 that some months earlier the Queen had asked him to consider the basis on which she might voluntarily pay tax on her personal income and also take responsibility for certain payments to additional members of the royal family ; the Prince of Wales had made a similar request with regard to the Duchy of Cornwall . |
| 11 | But he stood there watching until the little car had disappeared , as though Ellen were setting off on a long and dangerous journey from which she might never return . |
| 12 | She held the bag between them , suddenly not daring to put it down in case it signalled something , the consequences of which she might regret . |
| 13 | Somehow , she had a need to know all she could about him — and in there lay the conflict — because whatever she would have asked , or learned , was not for any write-up which she might hand over to her sister for her use , but was private and personal , and for her alone . |
| 14 | So suddenly fatherless , and so abruptly given to a husband , translated from the familiar company of her sisters at Brecon to this barbarous foreign court where she was the last and loneliest of the children , Isabella had looked round her forlornly for an anchorage to which she might ride in safety . |
| 15 | She made between 70 and 90 blouses a week which , despite the low rate of pay , compares well with what she might have got as a part-time worker in a sweat shop , the most likely alternative . |
| 16 | These penalties , to be sure , fell far short of what she might have expected for speaking out in Stalin 's Russia , which she had continued to admire for far longer than many people . |
| 17 | She did not begin to think of what she might say to Kathleen . |
| 18 | What she might need is a good fright . |
| 19 | Biting in what she might have said , she stood , and strode over to the door . |
| 20 | And then he became even more worried about what she might get up to with a lover . |
| 21 | I felt she had n't been thinking about Charlie at all — except as an inspiration — but that , like me , she 'd been dwelling on what she might do in the world . |
| 22 | Still Anabelle thought and thought what she might do . |
| 23 | She suggests that children who score low on both comprehension and production may be immature or mentally retarded , although no explanation is provided as to what she might mean by these terms . |
| 24 | Picking Benny up gently he cradled his head in his lap , conscious of his-mother standing in the garden , her hand over her mouth as if terrified of what she might find . |
| 25 | But still , for week after week , she never dared see if she was right , because she was afraid of what she might find within . |
| 26 | She could see in Mary 's eyes a gleam that meant she was calculating , not what she might owe to Alice , but what she was accumulating , of course at the moment only in imagination , for the purchase of their flat , or house . |
| 27 | Jasper had several times mentioned Muriel , and this could have given Alice a clue , if her dislike of Muriel did not always rise promptly in her , preventing her from hearing what she might have done . |
| 28 | Leo could n't bear to think what she meant , what she might have been through . |
| 29 | She always has been , and me and Lily get worried about what she might get up to . |
| 30 | This on top of everything else , she seemed to be thinking , although she did what she might to eliminate exhaustion and scorn from her voice . |