Example sentences of "[adv] he might [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His younger sister remembered that suddenly he might leave the table with a wild mad look on his face and rush round the garden . |
| 2 | The employees were occasionally terrified of Bernard ‘ as if he had one over him , ’ as they described it , but they all knew that however much he might stamp and shout while the anger lasted , he could go for a walk and come back as if nothing had happened . |
| 3 | ‘ No , he was already married , you see , a marriage he could never escape from , no matter how much he might have wanted to . |
| 4 | However much he might like to duck out , he can not . |
| 5 | However much he might desire her , she would have no more than the allotted space in his life . |
| 6 | But on day-to-day issues or on detailed matters where the minister would not be authorized to intervene by the relevant act , however much he might discuss these points on an informal basis and influence the actions of the board , Parliament can do nothing . |
| 7 | Do n't I get old enough and did me best perhaps he might change his mind |
| 8 | When she had finished , he suggested gently that perhaps he might meet Grégoire . |
| 9 | Fabia went down to dinner that night and could n't help thinking that , even though it was certain that he was n't staying in the same hotel , or he 'd have said so , perhaps he might decide to have his dinner there . |
| 10 | Well I knew someone in and I thought to myself I , perhaps he might lend me a hand ? |
| 11 | Perhaps he might fail ? |
| 12 | Perhaps he might like to start by extending it to books , magazines and newspapers . ’ |
| 13 | Personally , I find that hard to believe , but if it is truly the case then perhaps he might consider the following : |
| 14 | " Yet if I could make him notice me perhaps he might consider my suitability as a wife . |
| 15 | Perhaps he might use the ex-Prime Minister to give him a chuck on . |
| 16 | That he 'd do that in the morning as a little part time job for 'em , and all he 'd do is erm , the Pool Manager , which is at Lock Gates , he know what ships come in the day before and he really know the man and then in the morning they 'd say well so and so ship has arrived but perhaps he might know it , then he 'd send , he 'd know what men to send and this , cos I , I used to get the latest information , they did n't worry him , they worried me about lates latest information and of course we knew what ships was due for the next day so we knew what allocation we wanted . |
| 17 | He told her he had been thinking of the text he had just learnt , ‘ Prepare to meet thy God , ’ and perhaps he might die tonight , and he did not know if he was ready , if his sins were all forgiven … |
| 18 | In doing so he might find himself in the company of evolutionary epistemologists such as Riedl ( 1979 ) , whose over-arching theory of life as an ‘ erkenntnisgewinnender prozess ’ seems to require a unitary notion of knowledge or information , information that can be stored in a genome at one end of the evolutionary spectrum , as well as be expressed , at the other end , by scientific theories that make the world a less strange place to live in . |
| 19 | So he might get his wall built but he might have to wait a year before he starts it . |
| 20 | Thus he might suggest that a patient makes contact with a helping agency ( e.g. a Family Planning Clinic , Citizens ' Advice Bureau , Cruse , Shelter , Friend , Gay Switchboard ) . |
| 21 | Thus he might say : " All right , from now on I shall accept what you say . |
| 22 | And one day soon he might fulfil all that potential . ’ |
| 23 | But it had also been brought home to her with chilling clarity how easily he might have snatched her . |
| 24 | Anyway he might have hit a willow twig in the river . ’ |
| 25 | But still he might accept it . |
| 26 | Gratefully he might echo the joyful cry of Trismegistus in The Golden Treatise : |
| 27 | Then Sir Beaumains … rode all that ever he might ride through marshes and fields and great dales , that many times he plunged over the head in deep mires , for he knew not the way , but took the gainest way in that woodness … |
| 28 | Possibly he might have published more , and not been content with the record of work provided by patents . |
| 29 | And outside this family home he might have heard the call of the greylag geese as they rose and circled in flight above the River Vistula within whose rolling sight he had been born in 1920 . |
| 30 | ‘ Well , if he works a bit harder he might come on … |