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Example sentences of "she might [verb] the " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	‘ If I speak to Nerina , ’ said Bernard , whose blood pressure was so low there was talk of admitting him for a day or so , ‘ she might lift the curse .
2	She pulled herself along it thinking she might reach the stairs .
3	She might open the box and find nothing there , she might be unable to remember the features of his face and the habits of a marriage .
4	For a long time she imagined she might open the door and see the body of her mother , stretched out in death on her bed , her arms folded across her chest , her eyes still open and staring at the ceiling .
5	If Mrs Sweet was in the picture , she might continue the pressure on Steen , and that could have unpleasant repercussions for Jacqui .
6	Her tone implied she might think the more of him if he did .
7	Cos if you walk under her ladder she might drop the water all over your head .
8	She thought she might avoid the place for a few days herself , just in case the boy had any ideas of adopting her as a protector .
9	But she knew all the same that no-one had thought she might leave the tent which seemed warm now and dense with the presence of Antoine — Only he 's dead now , is n't he ?
10	Her loathing was partly due to the suspicion that , in a similar situation , she might do the same .
11	He said he instantly dismissed Miss Dixon after she displayed a hostile attitude and claimed she might do the same thing again .
12	She might want the walk .
13	Mary Law had felt she might refuse the money because of this problem :
14	Charity had never felt a true patriot whichever way she might analyse the term , but it seemed to matter that Britain now lay defenceless in the path of a monstrous hybrid composed of two powerful ideologies .
15	She raised a hand to touch the place , as if by such an action she might capture the feeling forever .
16	She might repeat the procedure at another specified bank in Parish and so on until the Credit was fully utilised .
17	‘ Oh , I 'm not saying anything against the room — it 's just that she might prefer the privacy of a chalet — ’
18	Nicola was examining her bruise , her fingertips stroking the place and moving only in one direction , as if she might draw the pain down and away .
19	She might observe the proceedings equally well from there .
20	Harriet hardly dared blink as she watched her through the viewfinder , terrified she might miss the moment she was waiting for .
21	She might wet the seat .
22	She might hold the solution to the MacQuillan mystery . ’
23	He did not even consider that she might hold the contrary viewpoint .
24	There were so many ways in which she could help , and by doing so she might mitigate the fears which crowded upon her when dusk fell .
25	" Et vous , vous n'êtes pas étudiant , " she said , thinking that she might learn the difference between tarts and students sooner than she had imagined .
26	she might take the baby if he 's good .
27	Having ignored her for forty minutes whilst they failed to answer questions about Amy to which she might know the answer , Theodora might perhaps have been forgiven for telling them nothing .
28	appointment the same day as me , but cos the thing is she said well I , I still want the tooth out but then , I 'm supposed to have a a , a , an appointment for the , the , I thought God that 's , I might have a , she might extract the tooth and then I wo n't would n't wan na go with a bloody mouth to the hygienist .
29	At first Miss Outram told them to ask their mothers , but feeling she might lose the girls ' confidence if she blocked their curiosity she took a more direct approach .
30	And then we come to the sixth race which is the eight forty five , well I 'm going to go for Angie Baby here in trap three , she 's erm a little bit of a kidder but she might have the legs of these , as long as something leads her , she 'll come and erm try and do them on the line , so it 's Angie Baby for me there , erm Ruby Blue in trap six is a danger .