Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [pron] [pers pn] might [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wanted to tell her the whole story then , but he was afraid of what she might think . |
| 2 | But still , for week after week , she never dared see if she was right , because she was afraid of what she might find within . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 4 | Afraid of the occupant of that room , afraid of what he might find , yet , simultaneously , knowing exactly what he would find . |
| 5 | I strolled on ( binoculars always at the ready , afraid of what I might miss ) as far as the Wire Dump Heligoland trap . |
| 6 | I told myself it was because you disgusted me , but really I was afraid of what I might do and say . |
| 7 | The real reason was that she was afraid of what I might find out . |
| 8 | Now she was perplexed and afraid ; perplexed because she did not understand what had happened , and afraid of what it might mean if she did . |
| 9 | You did not tell me what you had been doing , or where you had been , and you were not interested in whatever I might have been doing . |
| 10 | I felt very nervous about what she might do during the ceremony ! |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | If you are unsure of what you might change or there is clearly no one correct answer then place the emphasis on doing nothing until you are thoroughly familiar with the set up . |
| 13 | He was saying that the gods had so far been unkind , that they might turn kind , but that what the gods did for him was secondary to what they might do for Niki , a remark that turned out to be prophetic . |
| 14 | It suddenly seemed important to keep the conversation as close as possible to something you might have read in an old book . |
| 15 | Needles can be placed in the ears , hands , legs and lower back and contrary to what you might imagine , you can move around during labour with the needles in . |
| 16 | if I do that you 've all got to scatter and we were really worried about what we might find . |
| 17 | Maurin said : ‘ I am surprised you brought Barbara home , Ben , if you are worried about what she might say . ’ |
| 18 | And then he became even more worried about what she might get up to with a lover . |
| 19 | She always has been , and me and Lily get worried about what she might get up to . |
| 20 | Small children have strong ideas about what mothers do or do not do ; my own adolescent children are very worried about what I might do in public to embarrass them . |
| 21 | and so sometimes the , the calls do seem unreasonable but you should n't get cross , and when you go and see them sometimes you realize why they 're anxious because something that might seem quite trivial to you they might know somebody who had similar symptoms and it actually turned out to be meningitis or something so you 're then able to put their minds at rest . |
| 22 | We become insensitive to what we might call the ‘ once and might have been ’ of faith . |
| 23 | Bracing himself , ready for whatever he might find at the bottom . |
| 24 | But I was determined to get her ready for anything we might meet in the great outdoors . |
| 25 | For some reason he was terrified about what we might have said of him behind his back . |
| 26 | ‘ Perhaps she was scared of what you might say , ’ Carrie suggested , and he snorted contemptuously . |
| 27 | ‘ Scared of what it might lead to ? ’ he asked with gentle mockery . |
| 28 | She wanted to know , and yet was terrified of what he might tell her . |
| 29 | Quite frankly , she was terrified of what she might see . |
| 30 | They also appeared to be suspicious of television , as if wary of what I might ask them . |