Example sentences of "[prep] what they might [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alan was well aware of his own gifts and of what they might lead him to become , but I am not sure he entirely welcomed his role as a leader of lesser men . |
| 2 | I had felt all my life that lavatory and bedroom doors should be kept firmly shut , for fear of what they might reveal . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , if we are ever to make new discoveries about intonation , it will be as a result of studying what people actually say rather than inventing examples of what they might say . |
| 4 | Clearly some very large forces have disrupted the outer regions of the Solar System at some stage , or stages , in the past , but we have no idea of when or of what they might have been . |
| 5 | Her tone made it clear that if he wished , coffee was only the beginning of what they might have time for . |
| 6 | Their range includes an Anti-Blemish cover-up cream — because , despite what they might say to the contrary , boys like to hide their spots , too ! |
| 7 | Despite what they might say , Afghan Whigs are n't all dressed up with nowhere to go . |
| 8 | Not when you compare it with what they might advertise in Golf Monthly or something like that where |
| 9 | He also believes that despite the crowd 's impatience with what they might think is play-acting , 95pc of players who get treatment on the field really do need it . |
| 10 | He was saying that the gods had so far been unkind , that they might turn kind , but that what the gods did for him was secondary to what they might do for Niki , a remark that turned out to be prophetic . |
| 11 | As the stray bullets whistled across no-man's-land , Charlie fell on his knees and crawled back to the reserve trenches , to brief his section on what they might expect once they were pushed forward another hundred yards . |
| 12 | Offers the nearest you will now get to an ‘ 84 Charing Cross Road ’ service , even advising clients ( Lord Lambton , Sean Connery ) on what they might like to read . |
| 13 | In such circumstances , it is effrontery that my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Monklands , East and my hon. Friend the Member for Derby , South ( Mrs. Beckett ) should be attacked for what they might do , instead of the Government being brought to account for what they have done and continue to do . |
| 14 | In a city-centre bar , the four members of Eugenius are convening for what they might call work . |
| 15 | The men moved about cautiously , looking with curiosity at what they might find . |
| 16 | They may have some specific items that are to be bought but they also have a general readiness to look around and be tempted by what they might see . |