Example sentences of "he might [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or he might aim for a minority government dependent on the votes of six Arab members of the Knesset . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But then came a row with the aged President Tito over the sort of reception he might expect on a visit to Belgrade . |
| 4 | Corden said he might pay through the turnstiles and watch from the Tin Shed . |
| 5 | First he would have to learn about this place , learn about how things worked here before he might start with a few tentative enquiries . |
| 6 | He had never been in a wood in his life ; but he was sharp enough to know that he might hide in a bush , or swarm up a tree … ‘ . ) |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Regardless of what Nick Popplewell and he might achieve in the months ahead with the Lions last Saturday will never leave him . |
| 9 | The terrorist is normally a person who , as such , risks death either by his own weapons or in the commission of his act , and is at least as likely to court what he might regard as a martyr 's or patriot 's death as to be deterred by it . |
| 10 | Dalgliesh thought that however ferocious he might appear to the outside world his children had no fear of him . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | For a start the old problem of slow play reared its ugly head once more , causing one member of the field to suggest that he might switch to a more active sport like angling . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | When the Ottoman empire declared war on a foreign state its unfortunate representative in Constantinople was very often immediately thrown into the Seven Towers prison there , where he might stay for a considerable time . |
| 17 | ( 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 ’ . ) |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Just as they appeared to be succeeding , former Mayor Dudley Aldridge has hinted he might stand as an indepedent Tory against Mr Taylor . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It was not the harm he might do himself but the slips he might make along the way which alerted Emlyn . |
| 22 | He knew that he was in the presence of one of the few men he might recognize as an equal , a kindred spirit . |
| 23 | I paid her for the call , and stayed chatting for a while , answering her queries about the cottage and then telling her of my brother 's expected arrival , and the possibility that he might telephone with a message . |
| 24 | Only when Harry warned her that he might collide with a passing vehicle if she continued to do that , did she finally desist . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He might go to the bathroom , or come downstairs even . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | At any moment he might trample into the road , lower his head , run at someone . |