Example sentences of "he might give " in BNC.
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| 1 | One moment of confusion and he might give someone away , or incriminate himself . |
| 2 | Friends considered him so depressed during this period that they were even beginning to think the unthinkable — that he might give up and turn his back on society and all its ills , and do what he would have really chosen to do with his life : be a country squire . |
| 3 | If we are intended for great ends , we are called to great hazards ; and , whereas we are given absolute certainty in nothing , we must in all things choose between doubt and inactivity , and the conviction that we are under the eye of One who , for whatever reason , exercises us with the less evidence when He might give us the greater . |
| 4 | And we must remember our interest in Livesey is only that he might give us a lead to the young girl 's killer . ’ |
| 5 | It 's a heartening thought : he might give us a hard time but , at root , Bob is on our side … |
| 6 | Fitting the right lock in the right place will make a thief think twice — he might give up and move on to easier targets . |
| 7 | Kurchatov visited Harwell and suggested that he might give a lecture on Soviet work into thermonuclear reactions in gas discharges . |
| 8 | The Divisional Court ordered that the applicant 's motion be allowed for a declaration that before asking questions relating to an offence with which a person under investigation had been charged the Director of the Serious Fraud Office had to inform that person that he was not obliged to answer such questions but that , if they were answered , what was said might only be used in evidence against that person where he was charged with knowingly or recklessly making a false or misleading statement or where the answer was inconsistent with any evidence that he might give at a later criminal trial . |
| 9 | ‘ Declaration granted that before asking questions relating to an offence with which a person under investigation had been charged , the Director of the Serious Fraud Office was required to inform that person that he was not obliged to answer such questions but , if they were answered , what was said might only be used in evidence against that person where he was charged with knowingly or recklessly making a false or misleading statement or where the answer was inconsistent with any evidence he might give at a later criminal trial . |
| 10 | Hope was trembling and afraid that he might give too much away . |
| 11 | I explained about the shop ; I thought he might give me a loan to set up in business again … . |
| 12 | In a hurry to find me and too tired to pay attention to detail , he might give him a cursory glance and exclaim , relieved , " Ah , there you are . " |
| 13 | Inside her she had felt a little sense of triumph begin to grow as they rode side by side through the cool bright jungle glades ; sometimes she had allowed her horse to drift towards his on the narrow trail , perhaps hoping he might give voice to the passion his expression had seemed to promise at the palais . |
| 14 | So he 's got to be careful , and he 's worried that he might give himself away by some tiny flicker of expression . |
| 15 | He was certain the brutal oriental intended to kill them no matter what assurances he might give to the contrary , because of the trouble each had caused him . |
| 16 | ‘ I figure Simon said it because he was in love with you and he hoped that by pretending the two of you were a couple he might give fate a nudge and make it happen . ’ |
| 17 | he he says he might give me |
| 18 | But there again , one week you might , one month you might get a one month he might give her that and bugger all the next month ! |