Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] might one [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 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 The appointment of court organist there was finally offered to Mozart , with the indication that he might one day become Kapellmeister .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 But underneath this camp humour lay the constant dread that he might one day incur conviction and imprisonment .
11 They say I had the vanity to suppose that he and I might one day share the authorship of some literary work .
12 ‘ Yes , and I might one day be Queen of England !
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