Example sentences of "he might [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It might look like nosiness , he might open the wrong door , embarrass people . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | He might forfeit the respect of the fastidious few : that would not matter if he could win the votes of the many . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Maybe he might do the same on political reform . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ’ : |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | A slight difficulty arose about whether he might type the extracts . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | John Coffin , she felt sure , would not ; he might think the same things , but would not say them in that way . |
| 21 | ‘ Beauty depends on the multitude of its land owners ; for were Grasmere the property of one person , he might exterminate the wood in a spring ; but fifty men are seldom in one humour . |
| 22 | Alternatively , he might spread the front of the shirt across his body to stop it from slipping down his arm . |
| 23 | It becomes easy to picture himself and Boswell here , their servant outside holding the horse 's head , while Johnson 's taxi , his post-chaise , waited : ‘ The arch of one of the gates is entire , and another only so far dilapidated as to diversify the appearance , ; Sam himself with his famous stick prodding in the weeds , gauging the cut of the stone as he might examine the shoulders of a friend 's new frock-coat , measuring distances , tracing nave , crossing , choir , transept — inhaling meaning and implication , and converting it into judgment and knowledge . |
| 24 | Without thinking about how he might interpret the gesture , Belinda put a warning hand heavily on Tom 's knee . |
| 25 | His younger sister remembered that suddenly he might leave the table with a wild mad look on his face and rush round the garden . |
| 26 | If he had no children , an emperor might adopt a son from another gens , or he might leave the throne to his sister 's son , who would of course bear the name of another family . |
| 27 | He might not be able to stop murder at Godstowe , but at least he might trap the assassin who stalked the priory . |
| 28 | The boy was present on that path , by his own statement and actions , he had , however he might regret the act afterwards , cause to be rid of a man who could accuse him . |
| 29 | A Turkish national living in Monaco on a Canadian passport , Haser had somehow attracted the attention of the Monte Carlo police and the CIA was nervous that if the arms operation had been blown , he might expose the agency 's role in it . |
| 30 | Before they left , they heard the Regent declaring that if Edward Plantagenet sat tight and did not attempt any attack across Tweed , then he might lead the Scots force raiding deep into Northumberland , even as far as Bamborough where Edward 's young Queen was known to be installed . |