Example sentences of "[pers pn] might [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Still , however , I cherished the fantasy that I might one day have a son who would fulfil that dream , and always he had Leslie 's eyes , dark , with soft expressive light . |
2 | I made no notes of these visits to Out Patients , for at the time I had no idea that I might one day feel my experience with cancer sufficiently interesting to write about . |
3 | It never crossed my mind that I might one day have to fight . |
4 | They say I had the vanity to suppose that he and I might one day share the authorship of some literary work . |
5 | ‘ Yes , and I might one day be Queen of England ! |
6 | The second reason was that , even were she to have a successful pregnancy and birth , she was terrified that she might one day be carrying her child in her arms when she fainted and might then drop or hurt the child in some way . |
7 | She thought that although she might one day be able to accept this stupid time hiccup , she would never ever come to terms with these brief glimpses into another world ; as though a door had opened and closed and that , for a moment , she had stood with one foot on either side of the threshold . |
8 | At the time , you sent us a delightful card , which I still have , offering good wishes and expressing the hope we might one day meet . |
9 | Unassimilated , they might one day wreak havoc in her life . |
10 | But , on the contrary , it had been the beginning of the lifelong fight for Swift , because Jamie knew it might one day fall into his lap . |
11 | Hakim said he never knew what it was going to be used for next ; on an organisation chart he left a column for Africa , since North had hinted that he might one day do something there too . |
12 | The appointment of court organist there was finally offered to Mozart , with the indication that he might one day become Kapellmeister . |
13 | He had seemed certain to become the first black Tory MP , representing Cheltenham — Norman Tebbit had tipped him as the first black cabinet minister and there 'd even been the odd hint that he might one day inhabit No 10 . |
14 | John , like Clement , worked hard to secure the king at home and abroad so that he might one day embark on the crusade : the barons , the Scots , and the French were all pressured by John on Edward 's behalf . |
15 | But underneath this camp humour lay the constant dread that he might one day incur conviction and imprisonment . |
16 | He might one day get it into his head to dismiss Tom . |