Example sentences of "he might do " in BNC.
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| 1 | He thought that he might do you harm if he allowed it to show . ’ |
| 2 | God knew what harm he might do ! |
| 3 | Maybe he might do the same on political reform . |
| 4 | Next morning the humour in this wore decidedly thin , as Marshall in particular sent down bouncer after bouncer , unchecked by umpire Constant and apparently unconcerned at the damage he might do — such as badly bruising Fowler 's arm and causing him to retire for a while . |
| 5 | Whatever he might do , he could n't get past the postmistress at Cong , who acts as operator , and runs the whole village . |
| 6 | If Norman Lamont keeps the job of Chancellor ( and he might do so only because of the shortlist of alternative candidates is embarrassingly short ) he may decide to delay the next cut in interest rates for long enough to convince the markets that he is serious about wanting to move sterling into narrow bands in the European exchange rate mechanism at its middle rate of Dm2.95 . |
| 7 | MOREOVER , individual examples of bias , such as the one I detected when Paddy Ashdown was allowed to get away with the ridiculous notion that he might do a deal with John Major just as easily as with Neil Kinnock , need to be balanced against the election coverage as a whole . |
| 8 | He might do good — ’ |
| 9 | And he said that I had perceived correctly , that he might do nothing without my goodwill which he would strive to gain , if I would allow it . |
| 10 | The patient has to experience walking outside in order to overcome these problems , so he might do several ‘ practice walks ’ before venturing out without you following . |
| 11 | It was then getting near the time that I could turn him out , again I put it off , frightened of what he might do . |
| 12 | ‘ He might do well . |
| 13 | If he beat him then , at birth , he might do it again . |
| 14 | Sponsored by Lucas Industries , he plans to become a practising electrical engineer , though he might do casual teaching , perhaps at evening classes . |
| 15 | She did not consider what he might do to rescue her . |
| 16 | He 's a Jack Russell so I 'm hoping he might do something about the rodent problem at Low Birk Hatt . |
| 17 | Once he did as the Professor had hoped he might do , and gave Paul a ticket for an evening performance . |
| 18 | It was not the harm he might do himself but the slips he might make along the way which alerted Emlyn . |
| 19 | Yet , despite the apparent damage that Phil Barlow thought he might do to himself , he did on the day the appointments were made , challenge several aspects of the interviews . |
| 20 | He explained that at Cedars ( the local authority 's school for children ‘ with learning difficulties ’ ) where classes are small and the teachers are specialists at coping with Balbinder 's sort of problems , he might do better . |
| 21 | I wondered whether the fact that the buildings had collapsed , were no longer the ordered haven of childhood , helped him to understand that whatever he might do to reinstate the fabric of the place , he would not succeed in re-creating the past . |
| 22 | Her imagination jagged with tumbling violent images of what he might do to her . |
| 23 | I try even harder not to think about what he might do to me if he ever got the chance . |
| 24 | Culley felt the anger , but had little idea what he might do about it . |
| 25 | But now she feared what he might do . |
| 26 | And in the end I felt he really was beginning to think he might do it for me . |
| 27 | He might do , if you agreed to reverse the charges . ’ |
| 28 | He might do for me very well . |
| 29 | Who knows what he might do if he felt threatened . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ She was afraid of what he might do when she told him she was n't going to keep up the pretence any longer and everything she did in future was to be sold as her own work . ’ |