Example sentences of "[pers pn] might [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | oh , she might peculiar hairdresser |
9 | 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 . |
10 | We might this month 's edition . |
11 | Unassimilated , they might one day wreak havoc in her life . |
12 | Er , but I 've put down here that erm but possibly some retail outlets although the Saturday is the busiest day of their week they might important merchandise to arrive particularly at , you know , Jaeger shops , expensive shops where like the price of the item warrants paying a Saturday surcharge . |
13 | ‘ But they might this year ! ’ interrupted the secretary . |
14 | My family , who were threatening to visit us en masse the first weekend of May , ca n't come after all ( plans fell through ) , so wo n't need B & B. But they might some day . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | Erm so one suspects that if something of truly national importance really came , that it might any planning control might be overridden in the merits in the urgency of the case . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | The appointment of court organist there was finally offered to Mozart , with the indication that he might one day become Kapellmeister . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | But underneath this camp humour lay the constant dread that he might one day incur conviction and imprisonment . |
22 | He might one day get it into his head to dismiss Tom . |
23 | and wild beyond er , that one boy who was and had n't been used to that sort of thing , for his father had kept a small cook stock his companion that unless he has another basin of gruel he was afraid he might , he might some night happen to eat , eat the boy he slept next to , who happened to be a weakly youth of tender eight and they , and they impeccably believed him . |
24 | He might next time . ’ |