Example sentences of "he might [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thought occurred once again to Henry that someone who was n't him might have a sexual interest in his wife . |
| 2 | Unix System Laboratories Inc president Roel Pieper said in a talk with a bunch of software developers that he might license the tag ‘ Desktop Unix ’ to his COSE partners but never the unadorned word Unix . |
| 3 | Unix System Labs president , Roel Pieper , said in a talk with a bunch of software developers that he might license the tag ‘ Desktop Unix ’ to his COSE partners but never the unadorned word Unix . |
| 4 | Yet when he made to take a line of stones he had surrounded from the board , the boy placed his hand over Tuan 's , stopping him , lifting his hand so that he might study the position , his face creased into a frown , as if trying to take in what he had done wrong . |
| 5 | ‘ He might hire a private detective to tail you . |
| 6 | He might grow an orange tree out of his ear . |
| 7 | President Gorbachev 's special envoy Yevgeny Primakov visited Iraq twice in October , but suggestions that he might elicit a change in the Iraqi stance proved unfounded . |
| 8 | It might look like nosiness , he might open the wrong door , embarrass people . |
| 9 | ‘ So it 's only Mr Stonebird we 're considering — as a clergyman 's son and an anthropologist he might drink a great deal . ’ |
| 10 | As many audiences and record collectors already know , he took lessons in conducting so that he might perform the work himself , and since his first concert in New York 's Lincoln Center , he has been invited to perform it with 20 orchestras around the world ( he will be conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall , London in November ) . |
| 11 | He might forfeit the respect of the fastidious few : that would not matter if he could win the votes of the many . |
| 12 | Hallin also represented producer , Chris Allison , and thought he might form a partnership with the band . |
| 13 | Hussey went on to suggest to Lisle that he might pay the King I , 000 marks to exchange his present post for the captaincy of Guisnes . |
| 14 | For Law , the issue was that many Unionists would in any case feel compelled to support Lloyd George and that he might command a large personal following in the constituencies ; it would be useful to capture him as Joseph Chamberlain had been captured in 1886 . |
| 15 | If he was lucky he might start a wine bar when he left . |
| 16 | Emerging from his reverie , Jaq wondered whether he would be able to watch her changing back , whether he might witness the melting of the monster and the re-emergence of a perfect female human body . |
| 17 | MOREOVER , individual examples of bias , such as the one I detected when Paddy Ashdown was allowed to get away with the ridiculous notion that he might do a deal with John Major just as easily as with Neil Kinnock , need to be balanced against the election coverage as a whole . |
| 18 | Maybe he might do the same on political reform . |
| 19 | I dropped some change to a lone mandolin player doing a slow-tempo ‘ Sweet Georgia Brown ’ , partly because he was good and partly because he might do the same for me someday . |
| 20 | At his first formal meeting with the chairmen after all had been appointed , he outlined how he might achieve the generalisation and standardisation of ‘ better practice ’ : |
| 21 | He was concerned that he might miss the turning , but fresh granite chippings gleamed white in his headlights and he turned off , ruefully aware of the wear and tear on his tyres , to say nothing of the suspension . |
| 22 | This means that instead of a Lions ' debut being guaranteed for the 10-times-capped Garryowen player against Canterbury in Christchurch on Wednesday week , he might miss the match . |
| 23 | A slight difficulty arose about whether he might type the extracts . |
| 24 | Sometimes , another dealer tipped off a director as to the identities of miscreants , so as to curry favour for which he might reap a tangible reward like extra leads . |
| 25 | Then she was giving him her mouth again so that he might swallow the choked cries of pleasure rising from her throat as the frenzy claimed her once more , and a little later she was thrashing against him , pleading hoarsely for his possession , until Luke held her down and sank into her with a harsh groan . |
| 26 | Copernicus , on the left , raises the possibility of the earth 's motion , Galileo produces his telescope , and Kepler expresses a desire for wings that he might visit the new world — as indeed he had dreamed of doing in his unpublished Copernican text Somnium . |
| 27 | Matey had gone out , not to return until late at night , leaving Dr Neil 's tea in the larder on a plate carefully positioned under a fine gauze hood to protect it from the ubiquitous flies ; he had said not to leave him supper , for he might visit the local evening market where prepared food of all kinds was on sale , from oysters to whelks ; he was partial to shellfish , he said . |
| 28 | A SHERIFF said yesterday that he might visit the quarry at St Nicholas Golf Club , Prestwick , where the schoolboys Allan McKay , 13 , and Iain Allan , 12 , died last September . |
| 29 | After three months of this slow starvation , one of the boys told the others he was so hungry that one night he might eat the boy who slept next to him . |
| 30 | For more bullish clients he might suggest a maximum of 25 p.c. of the monthly saving could go into a Pep . |