Example sentences of "[noun] might [verb] at any " in BNC.
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| 1 | US and allied governments stressed that the exact moment was unimportant as it was not a " trigger point " , but that military action might begin at any time they chose thereafter , unless Iraq had complied with the UN resolutions . |
| 2 | He also must know that my ships from Denmark might arrive at any moment . |
| 3 | ‘ The one thing I do have in common with William , ’ conceded Preston , ‘ is that we both grew up knowing the heavens might open at any moment and drop a load of shit on our heads . ’ |
| 4 | Yet , when I saw him on this occasion , he seemed more than usually calm and quiet , which , given that the most painful of interrupters might arrive at any hour , showed that when , in the very essay I was delivering to him , he had talked about the necessity for the ‘ discipline and training of the emotions ’ , he meant what he said and practised it . |
| 5 | The room was unnaturally still about her , but the stillness might shatter at any second . |
| 6 | Lynn might reappear at any moment , Thomas was rambling in the woods somewhere near by , Floss and Tibbs were playing badminton just round the corner . |
| 7 | Already almost a year earlier Churchill had recognised that the enemy collapse in Europe might come at any time . |
| 8 | The world might end at any moment ; the illustrations of ninth-century Apocalypses are charged with innovation and nervous energy . |
| 9 | Firstly , he could not be sure whether other surviving members of the killer pack might arrive at any moment to join the attack on him . |