Example sentences of "he might [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps if My Lady were to wait for him tonight , there in the dark , he might recite some love poetry … a sonnet he has composed ? ’ |
| 2 | Sponsored by Lucas Industries , he plans to become a practising electrical engineer , though he might do casual teaching , perhaps at evening classes . |
| 3 | A void title on the other hand is no title at all and an innocent purchaser who buys from someone with a void title can derive no benefit from section 23 ( although , of course , he might acquire good title by virtue of some other exception to the ‘ nemo dat ’ principle ) . |
| 4 | A cognac paid for here , a box of chocolates for the Party wife there , a hint that he might fix that plot of land for someone … . |
| 5 | Cook , Cook , Cook ! we croaked in deprecatory tones as one by one we crept past him cowed and cold , fearing that he might invent some pretext to detain us … we hurried to bring to his notice the only name which seems to have power in Syria , that famous name of the hydra-headed , the indispensable , the world-wide Cook . |
| 6 | He might want some help aargh what you doing ? |
| 7 | All along Zen had been haunted by the idea that he might make some blunder which would hang over him for the rest of his life , yet here he was behaving like a dope addict . |
| 8 | Otherwise defender Darren Wassall may begin to wonder if he might make more money by doing something else at Wembley tomorrow . |
| 9 | He acknowledged that ‘ having him loose does raise the potential that he might make more mischief , take to the hills and be very hard to find ’ . |
| 10 | The Exercises were ill-received , and Gassendi seems to have decided that he might make more headway against the Aristotelians by systematically presenting an alternative point of view , rather than by direct argument against them . |
| 11 | The notion that he might make any joke , except an obscene one , I dismissed without a second thought . |
| 12 | But now the kind old man had moved abroad , still believing Oliver was a lying thief , and he might hold this belief until the day he died . |
| 13 | Coffin nodded , telling himself he might remember this fact when people talked to him about ‘ neighbourhood ’ crimes . |
| 14 | ‘ And he might have good cause to be grateful . |
| 15 | He might have better awareness etc , but I should bloody hope so at 30 … unless O'Leary has had a set back with his injury ? ? ? ? |
| 16 | His greatest worry was that somehow his presence had compromised her , that he might have another corpse on his hands , another death on his conscience . |
| 17 | However , to get him to the point where he might be weaned from the ventilator , one must allow him to sleep and get stronger , so if it was that kind of day or that kind of period , he might have more sedation than other times . |
| 18 | Republicans are likely to pick up seats in the House , so he might have more leverage there , but this will be counter-balanced by the probable increase in the number of Democratic seats in the Senate . |
| 19 | Althusser does not attempt such an argument but his sole example — a glancing reference to Foucault 's studies of asylums and clinics — suggests that he might have some sympathy with it . |
| 20 | Yeah , oh , well April is Easter , April nineteen , twenty , twenty one , twenty two , and it looks like your father he said he might take some time in n it ? |
| 21 | I listened with great fascination to the hon. Member for Hayes and Harlington ( Mr. Dicks ) , thinking that he might take this opportunity to tell the House about his relationship with Professor Bedi , who is now awaiting trial in Brixton prison . |
| 22 | Only the knowledge that he might provide some clue in the mystery of Suzie 's whereabouts held her prisoner . |
| 23 | And and like the dry store , erm , with all , it 's got like the rice in it , the custard in it , all those sorts of things , I mean , you know , he might order that stuff once a week , rather than having it come in three days a week . |
| 24 | I ventured on one or two occasions to suggest that he might find some way of dispensing with her services . |
| 25 | As for the pattern of voting in the by-election in the hon. Gentleman 's constituency , there may be others besides myself to whom he might address that question . |
| 26 | ‘ He might discuss some business matters with my father , for whom he has a tremendous respect , but apart from the fact that he does n't live at Parkwood any more he never boasts . ’ |
| 27 | Or was it her growing fear that he might wield another kind of power ? |
| 28 | In retrospect , does the Prime Minister agree that he might spend less time talking up false economic dawns and more time taking action for economic recovery ? |
| 29 | ‘ He said that he detected an implied suggestion that he might obtain another credit card from a different company and use it to pay off his card . ’ |
| 30 | I 'm glad you realise that the root of the problem lies with your husband not with you , and I 'm sure you 're right in thinking that he might need outside help . |