Example sentences of "might [vb infin] [verb] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you 're trying to dribble the ball past opponents you might want to side-step him without changing direction . |
| 2 | Audiences might like to quiz him about his favourite sporting moment . |
| 3 | Had the batsman not ducked , the ball might have struck him in the solar plexus . |
| 4 | With a shoe clutched in each hand he was unable to make a grab for the rougher stones that might have saved him from disaster . |
| 5 | If , for example , old man Jordan had come into the kitchen at that moment , Wycliffe might have seen him in the mirror ; but what of it ? |
| 6 | He seemed obtuse , as she felt by this time that she had more than cancelled out any slight encouragement she might have given him at first . |
| 7 | Supporters of women priests feared his recent talks in Rome might have swung him into opposition . |
| 8 | The upshot is that Marx never even concerns himself with questions such as the relation between individual perceptions to objects or the texture of feelings , sensations and thoughts , which might have led him towards a theory of where individuality occurs . |
| 9 | In his brown canvas boots , faded blue trousers , checked shirt and frayed cap , one might have mistaken him for a man of no consequence instead of a senior member of local government . |
| 10 | She might then have sought and received public assistance or have pledged her husband 's credit with tradesmen : in which case the National Assistance Board might have summoned him before the magistrates , or the tradesmen might have sued him in the county court . |
| 11 | Although he lacked the control over the southern kingdoms which might have put him on Bede 's famous list of kings holding imperium in the south , he remained a formidable ruler , with the resources to endow the church lavishly and to raise the navy which must have been necessary for his invasion of Ireland . |
| 12 | In 1914 Watson left National Cash Register under a cloud of monopoly and competitive charges that might have put him in jail . |
| 13 | Eventually she might have to face him as a customer , across the counter of the shop . |
| 14 | ( But Gillecrist , who might have advised him about that , was dead . ) |
| 15 | So self-absorbed was she that she never considered for one minute that her words might have hurt him in exchange . |
| 16 | I 'm sure we can get an accountant to come and speak to us , but we might have to pay him for two hours work , you see . |
| 17 | The one skipper who might have forced him into it , Glyn Charles , was out of touch yesterday . |
| 18 | Some might have taken him for a mere apprentice enchanter who had run away from his master out of defiance , boredom , fear and a lingering taste for heterosexuality . |
| 19 | She might then have sought and received public assistance or have pledged her husband 's credit with tradesmen : in which case the National Assistance Board might have summoned him before the magistrates , or the tradesmen might have sued him in the county court . |