Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] he might " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was suggested that the plaster should stay on for between four and six weeks after which he might like to think of building up its strength . |
| 2 | Much has already been said in the preceding pages about the subsequent progress through the learned hierarchy of the student who chose to become a muderris : with ability , luck , good connections or a combination of the three he would teach through a number of grades of medreses , eventually to turn to the mevleviyet kadiliks through which he might hope to rise ultimately to what had become by the end of the sixteenth century the principal office in the hierarchy , the Muftilik of Istanbul . |
| 3 | Sometimes , another dealer tipped off a director as to the identities of miscreants , so as to curry favour for which he might reap a tangible reward like extra leads . |
| 4 | But these identities are no longer lurid alibis towards which he might credibly escape ; they are playthings , alternative lives issued under licence by the celebrated author . |
| 5 | Jamie is propped up in a neatly made bed on which lie two discarded magazines of which he might have read the covers . |
| 6 | It was then getting near the time that I could turn him out , again I put it off , frightened of what he might do . |
| 7 | He wanted to find her , certainly , but not so much because of his job as a reporter , rather because of what he might learn from her . |
| 8 | He comforted himself with the saying of Uncle Jan — ‘ the devil is never so black as he is painted ’ — and dreamed of what he might accomplish in the company of such a woman , in collaboration with her soft femaleness . |
| 9 | We can study in these terms what an author has written against the background of what he might have written , had he failed to apply certain transformations , or chosen to apply others instead . |
| 10 | Her imagination jagged with tumbling violent images of what he might do to her . |
| 11 | Afraid of the occupant of that room , afraid of what he might find , yet , simultaneously , knowing exactly what he would find . |
| 12 | Then I thought of what he might have done . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 14 | She wanted to know , and yet was terrified of what he might tell her . |
| 15 | You were right to break with him if you decided that you had made a mistake in accepting him , but oh , my dear , your uncle Orrin tells me that he dare not inform your father of the dreadful things Havvie is hinting about you for fear of what he might do to Havvie . |
| 16 | And I am more worried about what he thinks of me than of what he might do to Havvie . ’ |
| 17 | He could not have borne a mirror in the room with him now , for fear of what he might see ; in his heart he knew that it would be unrecognisable , as he failed to recognise the turmoil of his own feelings as having anything to do with the self he had always known . |
| 18 | Malik had such a generalized air of gravity that his manner to individuals never conveyed anything of what he might really be thinking . |
| 19 | Er , I think it would be far better to have a streamlined regulatory system which would make the much cheaper and more efficient and I 'm glad that the honourable gentleman seems to be agreeing and perhaps he could try and persuade his honourable mefem member on the front bench that legislation , primary legislation is needed , I 'm glad to hear he 's working on it erm on on the second on the second point he made about the number of regulations , I 'm not sure I would agree with him that the best way of resolving this problem is to have less regulations er er though I would agree with the general er thrust of what he might be saying and that is that if the regulatory system was to concentrate on promoting higher professional standards and have less emphasis on rules and regulations then I think that would help . |
| 20 | Rachel looked up sharply but his expression was inscrutable , giving away nothing of what he might be feeling . |
| 21 | ‘ It kills me to think of what he might have suffered . |
| 22 | Instead , he groped towards some formula into which he might recast his earlier aesthetic while obscuring the reasons for doing so : a task made easier by his tortuous prose style . |
| 23 | The plaintiff 's solicitors must make regular checks ( and it is a good idea for the defendant 's insurers and solicitors to do the same ) on the wage rates at regular intervals , and not only on the rates for the job that the plaintiff would have been doing but the rate for any job into which he might have been promoted but for the accident . |
| 24 | But Budworth was an honest man , and , as such , felt a compunction for the errors in which he might have unthinkingly involved the innocent and unsuspecting female . |
| 25 | As I will suggest in chapter eight , the black sportsman sees sport not as a hobby , but as a central life interest , a sphere in which he might find scope for self-expression and a possible avenue out of his mundane , everyday existence . |
| 26 | They had come , they said , to take Klein to lunch and to have a friendly discussion about a matter in which he might have a mutual interest . |
| 27 | He thought of a Socialist future for his half country , and conceived the hope of a job in which he might have the luck to be gripped by some stupendous ire of work , trying to avoid the spectacle of the people around him and in the wet street outside , which pointed out a fraternal indifference in the world that was the last perception he cared to harbor . |
| 28 | He may suffer a severe personality change from which he might not recover . |
| 29 | Yet he had never been assigned any lands from which he might maintain himself and his Queen in their proper estate . |
| 30 | In his reply St. Johnston said that the Chief Inspector of Constabulary at the Home Office , whom he had consulted , did not think he should accept the invitation to join the working party , but that there would be no objection to his attending any meeting to which he might be invited . |