Example sentences of "he might [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though he might jibe at the London Group , his own work was sufficiently acceptable to this conservative exhibiting society for him to be elected a member in 1949 , the same year that he was represented in ‘ The Art of the Book Jacket ’ which , after being shown at the Victoria and Albert Museum , went on tour at home and abroad . |
| 2 | Corden said he might pay through the turnstiles and watch from the Tin Shed . |
| 3 | At the same time , he was entering with a new singleness of purpose the creative landscape of his own mind , and sensed already that what he might achieve in the months ahead would surpass anything which had resulted from two very public years in Bristol . |
| 4 | Regardless of what Nick Popplewell and he might achieve in the months ahead with the Lions last Saturday will never leave him . |
| 5 | Dalgliesh thought that however ferocious he might appear to the outside world his children had no fear of him . |
| 6 | The girl is said not have a good relationship with her father and the prospect that he might return to the family home , after a period of estrangement from his wife , prompted her action under the 1989 Children Act . |
| 7 | The girl is said to have a poor relationship with her father and the prospect that he might return to the family home , after a period of estrangement from his wife , prompted her action under the 1989 Children Act . |
| 8 | He might sink at the end of his eighth length in the pool and have to drop to a walk during his second mile , and shoot a fair proportion of his pellets off the target altogether , but his ride … his ride would have the spectators reeling with wonder . |
| 9 | For if the student can retrieve an item by dialling a number , he still has to discover what number , and to conceptualize how he might arrive at the correct answer that would give it to him . |
| 10 | ( Andrew speaks of Rhodes as if he might walk through the door ; and in the corner of the living-room hangs a pencil portrait , autographed , of ‘ The Founder ’ . ) |
| 11 | Part of him wants to get back to the security of home but he knows that after a few weeks there he might long for the contacts , communication and craziness of the multi-media scheme . |
| 12 | He had n't dared to dwell on her in those aging arms lest his rage should drive him to deeds he might regret for the rest of his life . |
| 13 | It was not the harm he might do himself but the slips he might make along the way which alerted Emlyn . |
| 14 | As there was always the chance that the swimmer 's faint light might be missed and he might go beyond the canoe , in the next phase ( two ) he turned and shone his torch shorewards . |
| 15 | He might go to the bathroom , or come downstairs even . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | At any moment he might trample into the road , lower his head , run at someone . |
| 18 | ‘ I looked back and I thought he might get off the verge but it was wet . |
| 19 | In the same month they travelled to Bermuda for six weeks so that he might convalesce in the warmth : he responded well , and was walking more easily . |
| 20 | Franco not only did not do so but , on the following day , requested Sperrle to send any spare aircraft he might have to the Madrid front . |
| 21 | In order to do so , the counsellor may have to ‘ unlearn ’ some of the more conventional understandings she or he might have about the nature of the war . |
| 22 | Since they may be determined in a way favourable to the defendant , there is no need to decide any other complaints he might have about the conduct of his trial . |
| 23 | His nickname , his flattened nose , a crossed scar like an emblem beside one eyebrow had all been won honourably , in and out of the ring , and whatever suspicions he might have about the feelings — even about the suitability for the present assignment — of Denis Hurley , sitting back-to-back with him on the cart , he knew that he would be man enough for anything , his nerve would not fail . |
| 24 | Edward III agreed that the realm of Scotland ‘ shall remain for ever to the eminent prince Lord Robert , by the grace of God the illustrious king of Scots ’ , and he renounced any right he might have in the realm of Scotland . |
| 25 | If Ken had only put his mind to it he might have in the end come up with something even better . |
| 26 | He might proceed against the judgment debtor in person ; or against his property . |
| 27 | In the Christian message … there is absolutely no question of man 's being given an historical account of a section of the past , which he might put to the test , or critically confirm or reject . |
| 28 | Or he might stick with the status quo , in which parliament has principal responsibility for the economy , and replace Mr Kuchma with a more pliant prime minister . |
| 29 | Nicholas said , ‘ I thought he might agree to the truce . |
| 30 | That may change if he continues to draw the kind of encouragement which has poured in since he announced in February that he might run for the White House . |