Example sentences of "[that] [pron] might [adj] " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | For myself , I think the moat alone would have been quite enough , but I dare say one gets used to the feeling that we might all sink . ’ |
| 6 | How much easier and clearer it might have been if it had been possible to say that both parents and husband were equally concerned and that they might all talk together . |
| 7 | Asquith demurred , and also responded discouragingly to a suggestion that they might all serve under Balfour . |
| 8 | Complicating matters is the knowledge on the part of both prisoners that they might each turn the other in . |
| 9 | As long as President Mengistu held on , there was a real chance that it might all happen again . |
| 10 | The thought that it might all come to nothing through a peace-outbreak had bankers , politicians and industrialists shaking in their shoes . |
| 11 | That it might all blow over without any unpleasantness — ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The appointment of court organist there was finally offered to Mozart , with the indication that he might one day become Kapellmeister . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | But underneath this camp humour lay the constant dread that he might one day incur conviction and imprisonment . |
| 18 | In the split-second when he had first mentioned marriage , Ashley had harboured the giddy irrational notion that he might next be going to say he loved her . |