Example sentences of "what he might [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gandhi claims that it can not be used in an unjust cause but what he might mean is that it should not be used in an unjust cause . |
| 2 | At the same time , he was entering with a new singleness of purpose the creative landscape of his own mind , and sensed already that what he might achieve in the months ahead would surpass anything which had resulted from two very public years in Bristol . |
| 3 | He never knew , from one meeting to the next , what he might discover in her and it astonished him . |
| 4 | The terrorist is normally a person who , as such , risks death either by his own weapons or in the commission of his act , and is at least as likely to court what he might regard as a martyr 's or patriot 's death as to be deterred by it . |
| 5 | Martinho , too , sensing what the rules of disengagement from the deathbed were going to be , allowed them to have their fun , or the priestly hypocrite he 'd been in the jungle — got his kicks out of the spectacle , what he might regard as my just deserts for my equivocal behaviour toward him in those nightmare days . |
| 6 | ‘ We have been given no indication by Gavin about what he might decide , ’ added McDermott . |
| 7 | She wanted to know , and yet was terrified of what he might tell her . |
| 8 | It was then getting near the time that I could turn him out , again I put it off , frightened of what he might do . |
| 9 | She did not consider what he might do to rescue her . |
| 10 | Her imagination jagged with tumbling violent images of what he might do to her . |
| 11 | I try even harder not to think about what he might do to me if he ever got the chance . |
| 12 | Culley felt the anger , but had little idea what he might do about it . |
| 13 | But now she feared what he might do . |
| 14 | Who knows what he might do if he felt threatened . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ She was afraid of what he might do when she told him she was n't going to keep up the pretence any longer and everything she did in future was to be sold as her own work . ’ |
| 16 | You were right to break with him if you decided that you had made a mistake in accepting him , but oh , my dear , your uncle Orrin tells me that he dare not inform your father of the dreadful things Havvie is hinting about you for fear of what he might do to Havvie . |
| 17 | And I am more worried about what he thinks of me than of what he might do to Havvie . ’ |
| 18 | Until then they had treated him with a mixture of sympathy as a man caught up , by line of duty , in a political imbroglio , and suspicion at what he might do to make things worse . |
| 19 | ‘ Have you thought what he might do , your father ? ’ |
| 20 | He comforted himself with the saying of Uncle Jan — ‘ the devil is never so black as he is painted ’ — and dreamed of what he might accomplish in the company of such a woman , in collaboration with her soft femaleness . |
| 21 | Dreading what he might see , Rincewind let his gaze slide upwards . |
| 22 | He could not have borne a mirror in the room with him now , for fear of what he might see ; in his heart he knew that it would be unrecognisable , as he failed to recognise the turmoil of his own feelings as having anything to do with the self he had always known . |
| 23 | Karelius , though dreading what he might hear , confronted him at once . |
| 24 | Sir : Shabbir Akhtar ( 10 October ) himself makes what he might call a pardonable error in thinking that to liberals — genuine ones , not the compromisers so regretfully limned in John Torode 's article ( 3 October ) - freedom of speech is an absolute value . |
| 25 | I think he realized that what he might call the party of reason , that 's to say the party of those who do n't see things in terms of ideological shibboleths , but in terms of the long-run interests of humanity , ca n't become a party of action . |
| 26 | I ask them what he might like eating ; some suggest eating car tyres and drinking oil . |
| 27 | It was the social security man , and recognizing his voice I braced myself for what he might say . |
| 28 | Or what he might say to her … |
| 29 | It was obvious that this small incursion into her life had seriously over-excited Johnny , and Cassie wondered uneasily what he might take into his head to do next . |
| 30 | Afraid of the occupant of that room , afraid of what he might find , yet , simultaneously , knowing exactly what he would find . |