Example sentences of "he might [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Regardless of what Nick Popplewell and he might achieve in the months ahead with the Lions last Saturday will never leave him . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | If Ken had only put his mind to it he might have in the end come up with something even better . |
| 6 | He comforted himself with the saying of Uncle Jan — ‘ the devil is never so black as he is painted ’ — and dreamed of what he might accomplish in the company of such a woman , in collaboration with her soft femaleness . |
| 7 | This he might find in the service of a bishop ; for many bishops in the late eleventh and twelfth centuries were coming to have large staffs of young clerks , who learned the business of ecclesiastical administration and rose to be canons or archdeacons , or were seconded or translated to the royal service . |
| 8 | He used a tiff with France as an excuse for military preparations he might need in the east . |