Example sentences of "he might [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or he might aim for a minority government dependent on the votes of six Arab members of the Knesset . |
| 2 | Sir John Harington relates , however , how ‘ he would walk at certain hours in one of the aisles of St Paul 's , that if any came to him for spiritual advice and comfort ( as some did though not many ) he might impart it to them ’ . |
| 3 | Unix System Laboratories Inc president Roel Pieper said in a talk with a bunch of software developers that he might license the tag ‘ Desktop Unix ’ to his COSE partners but never the unadorned word Unix . |
| 4 | Unix System Labs president , Roel Pieper , said in a talk with a bunch of software developers that he might license the tag ‘ Desktop Unix ’ to his COSE partners but never the unadorned word Unix . |
| 5 | Though he might jibe at the London Group , his own work was sufficiently acceptable to this conservative exhibiting society for him to be elected a member in 1949 , the same year that he was represented in ‘ The Art of the Book Jacket ’ which , after being shown at the Victoria and Albert Museum , went on tour at home and abroad . |
| 6 | The Irish were always afraid of the local bard , that he might record their names in some of his work . ’ |
| 7 | In the heat of the moment , he might slacken his moral principles . |
| 8 | Yet when he made to take a line of stones he had surrounded from the board , the boy placed his hand over Tuan 's , stopping him , lifting his hand so that he might study the position , his face creased into a frown , as if trying to take in what he had done wrong . |
| 9 | He might demand , but he was not going to force her . |
| 10 | They moved in , and invited William Morris to stay so that he might advise them on decorating and restoring the place . |
| 11 | He might advise me to make a statement to the police which I should of course do under his guidance . |
| 12 | As the series went on , it became clear that the players would happily follow Gooch through fire , flood , armies of tarantulas or anything else he might choose , if at the end of it there was the chance of winning a Test match . |
| 13 | Internal organization is a class of governance whose distinguishing feature is that a resource owner accepts restrictions on his sole rights to use his resources in whatever way he might choose . |
| 14 | Curtis , fully aware that this was the last night of the Prophet 's current crusade , had anticipated that he might choose it for a last hunting expedition , before retreating to his lair upstate . |
| 15 | It should be that Richard does it , though he might choose to delegate it . |
| 16 | Earlier this year , six Romanian party veterans sent him a message full of criticism of his policies ; there was talk that he might step down . |
| 17 | She looked pleadingly at the man in overalls as if he might step in and save her . |
| 18 | Mulroney accepted that the referendum result had consigned the Charlottetown agreement to " history " , but rejected suggestions that , in the face of such a personal reverse , he might step down as Prime Minister . |
| 19 | At precisely the minute it looked as if he might step back inside the lodge , a young couple , obviously very much in love , got up and left , leaving a place for him to sit . |
| 20 | ‘ He might hire a private detective to tail you . |
| 21 | Tell him Ellen that he might grow accustomed to it . |
| 22 | The garden can provide the patient 's first opportunity to feel he has achieved something by himself : he can grow flowers to beautify the garden or provide cut flowers for the house , or he might grow vegetables or herbs . |
| 23 | He might grow an orange tree out of his ear . |
| 24 | He might last ten years … might last ten months or days . ’ |
| 25 | After dinner he might finish some pressing publishing work , correcting manuscripts or writing blurbs ; if not inveigled by Hayward into escorting him to a party , or sitting with guests in the shared " living room " , he would retire to his own rooms for study or contemplation . |
| 26 | President Gorbachev 's special envoy Yevgeny Primakov visited Iraq twice in October , but suggestions that he might elicit a change in the Iraqi stance proved unfounded . |
| 27 | That Rohmer fella might have the proper ID and he might corroborate your funny story , but do n't think I 'm falling for any of this crap . ’ |
| 28 | ( His desire to become gravid was so fierce that no menstruating woman was safe from him — he might strike even by day , if he caught the iron whiff of their menses . ) |
| 29 | If , for instance , a doctor prescribes sleeping tablets for occasional use only , he might strike out the NP and put ‘ sleeping tablets ’ in the NP box . |
| 30 | Is it not an attack upon the integrity of a man to alienate him from those actions which spring from his deep convictions in order that he might fit in with utilitarian calculations ? |