Example sentences of "he might [vb infin] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once there 's a danger he might decide to eat the picture and choke , stick posters ( or wrapping paper with pictures on ) and family photos around the room . |
| 2 | With no knowledge of these probabilities , he might decide to assume the worst and maximise the lowest objective function , that is maximise min subject to the constraints . |
| 3 | I wondered whether the fact that the buildings had collapsed , were no longer the ordered haven of childhood , helped him to understand that whatever he might do to reinstate the fabric of the place , he would not succeed in re-creating the past . |
| 4 | Alternatively , he might prefer to hold the other party to the contract but would like some compensation for the breach and if the breach concerns a minor term this is usually the better solution . |
| 5 | The Doctor looked for a moment as if he might continue to argue the point , but seemed to relax , and turned to Ace . |
| 6 | He might enjoy exploring the many rooms that , while not too wonderful graphically , serve their purpose well enough . |
| 7 | However , should Cleo 's entreaty elicit no response , he might consider investigating the building with her . |
| 8 | Given time , he might have destroyed the British Union of Fascists single-handed by his cold-hearted vindictiveness . |
| 9 | Otherwise he might have suffered the same fate as Sheila Brayford . |
| 10 | ‘ Have a try with Swayne 's cat next door ; he might have made the bloody marks on the carpet . |
| 11 | And outside this family home he might have heard the call of the greylag geese as they rose and circled in flight above the River Vistula within whose rolling sight he had been born in 1920 . |
| 12 | He might have missed the first onslaught of punk , but he caught a lot of its stylish offsprings , especially Postcard Records ' Orange Juice and Josef K. He was smitten with the sound of rhythm guitars meshed together to form pop melodies and was beginning to realise precisely how he wanted his own band to sound . |
| 13 | If it had been later in the season , and the roses in full bloom , he might have missed the portal altogether , but there was just the one unopened bud on the bare branches , of a delicate peach shade with hints of rose which made him think of a girl 's skin . |
| 14 | He might have rejected Malebranche 's extension of the arguments about relativity of perception from secondary to primary qualities ; he might have rejected the further conclusions Bayle said should be drawn from them . |
| 15 | If he was in her place , he might have done the same thing . |
| 16 | ‘ He might have seen the knight standing on the parapet , crept up , placed the pole there , and somehow or other arranged for the tocsin to be sounded . ’ |
| 17 | He might have expanded the scope of this intriguing remark . |
| 18 | He might have foreseen the problems that would ensue after their marriage , seen that there was a gulf between Charles and Diana that would be difficult to bridge and advised against it . |
| 19 | She even thought up ways in which — had he been at home — he might have managed the rescue more easily and with far greater certainty . |
| 20 | But Moubarak argued that he might have misjudged the colt 's preparation in not giving him sufficient work since he was found to be suffering from a minor skin infection on his legs after his previous race . |
| 21 | If Cullam had been in a fit state to observe behaviour he might have thought the chief inspector bored or preoccupied . |
| 22 | It was said as a joke , but if the man had seen the evil look on Fagin 's face , he might have thought the warning was a necessary one . |
| 23 | ‘ I told him about the tramp , and he thinks he might have started the fire by knocking his pipe out on the dry grass . ’ |
| 24 | I think he might have resisted the pressure her father was putting on him and taken whatever consequences there might have been , but for the prospect of fatherhood . |
| 25 | And it could be argued that had he fought during that time , he might have honed the ring sharpness to capitalise on the moment he rocked Tyson in the opening round . |
| 26 | That way , at least , he might have discouraged the impression that the Government 's abiding concern in this sorrowful matter has been to defend the actions of the state at their most indefensible . |
| 27 | Under ordinary circumstances he might have got the second but they responded to his aggression with speed and efficiency , bottling him up again with a hail of bullets — bullets fired from very close range . |
| 28 | He 's been arrested 32 times for shoplifting , but each time magistrates ruled the offences were n't serious enough for him to be detained , where he might have got the treatment he needs . |
| 29 | Gould might have been disorientated — his record of dates , distances and directions are sometimes unreliable ; he might have exaggerated the achievements of his expedition — he would not have been the first explorer to do so ; or he might have been misquoted by an over-enthusiastic press . |
| 30 | He might have known the Great Enchanter personally , and will almost certainly covet some of Drachenfels ' magical possessions . |