Example sentences of "what she might [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could see in Mary 's eyes a gleam that meant she was calculating , not what she might owe to Alice , but what she was accumulating , of course at the moment only in imagination , for the purchase of their flat , or house . |
| 2 | She suggests that children who score low on both comprehension and production may be immature or mentally retarded , although no explanation is provided as to what she might mean by these terms . |
| 3 | I felt she had n't been thinking about Charlie at all — except as an inspiration — but that , like me , she 'd been dwelling on what she might do in the world . |
| 4 | Still Anabelle thought and thought what she might do . |
| 5 | I felt very nervous about what she might do during the ceremony ! |
| 6 | The main problem remains Hillary Clinton , and what she might do to clobber the prices charged by drug companies in the USA , the world 's largest market . |
| 7 | Doubtless the other girls had told her what she might expect . |
| 8 | He wanted to tell her the whole story then , but he was afraid of what she might think . |
| 9 | Fran forced herself to sound cool and friendly , to betray no hint of the fear twisting her heart at the thought of what she might discover . |
| 10 | She wanted to turn tail and run and keep on running away from him , away from what she might discover , away from what could only break her heart , yet she knew that was impossible . |
| 11 | Quite frankly , she was terrified of what she might see . |
| 12 | A few times she was aware that he was watching her , but managed every time to resist the temptation to look up , unsure of just what she might see in his eyes . |
| 13 | She made between 70 and 90 blouses a week which , despite the low rate of pay , compares well with what she might have got as a part-time worker in a sweat shop , the most likely alternative . |
| 14 | These penalties , to be sure , fell far short of what she might have expected for speaking out in Stalin 's Russia , which she had continued to admire for far longer than many people . |
| 15 | Biting in what she might have said , she stood , and strode over to the door . |
| 16 | Jasper had several times mentioned Muriel , and this could have given Alice a clue , if her dislike of Muriel did not always rise promptly in her , preventing her from hearing what she might have done . |
| 17 | Leo could n't bear to think what she meant , what she might have been through . |
| 18 | While waiting I tried to imagine what she might have been thinking . |
| 19 | It was what she might have expected . |
| 20 | Well , I do n't know what she might have told you , but I racked my memory and I came up with a name . |
| 21 | What she might need is a good fright . |
| 22 | The sweat that had begun in anticipation of what she might encounter in the street now ran in fear of her mother 's rage ; Nunzia 's eyes had gone hard and wrinkled like black olive pips when Rosa had produced the plover , and she had clucked impatiently with her tongue when Rosa lied and said her grandfather had shot it and presented it to her . |
| 23 | And then he became even more worried about what she might get up to with a lover . |
| 24 | She always has been , and me and Lily get worried about what she might get up to . |
| 25 | ‘ Perhaps Mistress Hopkins was murdered simply because of what she might know . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ That poor old woman was murdered , ’ Benjamin declared , ‘ not because she had said or done anything wrong but simply because of what she might know . |
| 27 | Picking Benny up gently he cradled his head in his lap , conscious of his-mother standing in the garden , her hand over her mouth as if terrified of what she might find . |
| 28 | But still , for week after week , she never dared see if she was right , because she was afraid of what she might find within . |
| 29 | She pounded into the frost-rimed chamber , breath freezing in front of her face , checking each possible place of concealment for a figure , dreading what she might find . |
| 30 | She was asked what she had done to merit promotion and what she might like to do : |