Example sentences of "[adj] he [modal v] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This he might find in the service of a bishop ; for many bishops in the late eleventh and twelfth centuries were coming to have large staffs of young clerks , who learned the business of ecclesiastical administration and rose to be canons or archdeacons , or were seconded or translated to the royal service . |
| 2 | Thank God , that was the last time he would have to do it ; after this he would go as an executive , by aircraft and helicopter only . |
| 3 | This he could recite without the book , a poem of Wilfred Owen 's which he had impressed into the minds of every one of his pupils in Battle Creek . |
| 4 | Cool customer This he will do from the scrum-half position in the now customary French fashion while the nominal scrum-half , Berbizier , froze the ball in from touch . |
| 5 | If a man had been repeatedly unsuccessful he would go to the river , dive to the bottom and bring up a lump of clay with which he would mark his forehead , taking care to be unobserved , otherwise the spell lost its efficacy . |
| 6 | He would n't need much he could sleep in the car-but he 'd still have to eat and buy fuel . |
| 7 | The usual system is for the client to say how much he will spend as a working budget during a certain period of time . |
| 8 | Much has already been said in the preceding pages about the subsequent progress through the learned hierarchy of the student who chose to become a muderris : with ability , luck , good connections or a combination of the three he would teach through a number of grades of medreses , eventually to turn to the mevleviyet kadiliks through which he might hope to rise ultimately to what had become by the end of the sixteenth century the principal office in the hierarchy , the Muftilik of Istanbul . |
| 9 | He might be seen returning , and it was needful he should come by the way he would have taken to Longner . |
| 10 | Dalgliesh thought that however ferocious he might appear to the outside world his children had no fear of him . |
| 11 | These he would produce with a flourish during our Wednesday- and Sunday-evening sessions . |
| 12 | ‘ Do n't worry , Shae , I 'm sure he 'll return to the fold too . |
| 13 | If you were to talk to him , I 'm sure he would listen to a fine man like yourself . |
| 14 | Robert Hardy says he re-arranged his schedule to make sure he could appear in the final episode of Inspector Morse . |
| 15 | I 'm sure he 'd agree to a later date if — ’ |
| 16 | All he could do for the moment was to stand in the doorway and look about him . |
| 17 | I felt the pathos of this remark , as all he could do on the banjo was strum ‘ plunk plunk plunk ’ over and over again . |
| 18 | All he could see of the lifeboat was her searchlight beam , and with that as his only reference he guided her to the scene . |
| 19 | Piggott said all he could remember about the fall was the horse ‘ stumbled for about 20 yards before his legs gave way ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ Because my husband was confident he could deal with the matter on his own , ’ Ursula replied . |
| 21 | But he warned that if pensioners on income support and others in real need were not compensated in full he would vote against the VAT imposition at the committee stage of the Finance Bill or when Peter Lilley , the Social Security Secretary , makes his announcement uprating benefits in the autumn . |
| 22 | But he warned that if pensioners on income support and others in real need were not compensated in full he would vote against the VAT imposition at a later stage . |
| 23 | Ca n't bear angry voices , first he used to go underneath the rocking chair |
| 24 | First he should go to the hotel to see what was happening . |
| 25 | These purposeful wanderings in nearby London commons were the nearest he could come to the idealized world he had found in The Amateur Poacher . |
| 26 | ‘ There was very little he could do about the horrendous injuries Cooper suffered in his two fights against Ali , but he saved him on countless other occasions with his quick , methodical work . ’ |
| 27 | There was little he could do about the image . |
| 28 | Although the strong-minded Negrín was never the Communist catspaw his many critics accused him of being , there was little he could do in the circumstances to prevent the Communists from exercising an increasingly independent and even dominant role within Republican Spain . |
| 29 | She would have to have some money to support it , and it was only right he should pay for the pleasure he 'd had . |
| 30 | I said that the best thing he could do for the whites was to demonstrate to the blacks that they fully supported the widest possible franchise , and that if he did that he would emerge as a statesman , with a statesman 's view of his responsibilities . |