Example sentences of "[adv] he [modal v] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Normally a knight expected to serve for about forty days a year at his own expense ; the terms of his service might also be restricted — when and where he served , and for how long he would stay after the forty days if the king paid him . |
| 2 | I wonder how long he would last in the emasculated Audit Commission about which the Labour party has talked . |
| 3 | He is wondering how long he must sit in the chair . |
| 4 | The more difficult question is how long he can continue as a one-man movement . |
| 5 | If he stays there too long he will slip into the dirty wind like C , so he must tack off quickly . |
| 6 | If only he could come across a barn in which he could seek refuge from the full force of the gale … but visibility was limited to a few strides . |
| 7 | Perhaps he would move into the apartment . |
| 8 | Perhaps he would settle for the Magic Flute ? |
| 9 | I do n't know what he can do , but perhaps he 'll go to the police . |
| 10 | Perhaps he 'll come into the room when Nick 's fast asleep and bend over me and say , ‘ Well , girl , how 's my sister ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Yes , we 'll have an overhead-scrolling runaway bit , perhaps he can change into a car later , kill lots of people , ( cough ) and perhaps along the way the game could convey a general lack of atmosphere , just like the film . ’ |
| 12 | Perhaps he will sit in a class with students five years older than he is . |
| 13 | Perhaps he will settle for a life on the back benches , cushioned by his massive majority , but it can not be the most exciting prospect in the world . |
| 14 | But perhaps he could think of no words bad enough because he began to cry instead , loud , gasping sobs , eyes wide and streaming . |
| 15 | Perhaps he could get off the hook by saying he would go in the morning ? |
| 16 | Fr Cunningham has been told that whenever he feels he has had enough he can retire to the house he 's living in . |
| 17 | Yeah so he can play on the floor |
| 18 | I thought well he 's got a couple of kids so he could do with a little girl . |
| 19 | And then last year Branson sold the music business to Thorn E M I for five hundred and sixty million pounds so he could focus on the airline , which was losing money . |
| 20 | She knew that very soon he would break into a flamenco , that the local girls in their frills and flounces would mask him with their castanets and their swinging hips . |
| 21 | In 324 on arriving in the East he felt sure that soon he would go to the Holy Land to see the sacred sites and to be baptized in Jordan . |
| 22 | But then , as he had said , if he did n't see her tonight he would come to the shop tomorrow . |
| 23 | He got to his feet , staring up at the ceiling , wondering whether or not he should shout to the owner to turn the volume down . |
| 24 | As always he must wait for the dust to settle after the Scottish Rally and the Donegal International , too , before being certain which drivers and what cars will be in his starting line-up . |
| 25 | GLAFCOS Clerides , elected president of Cyprus with hardline backing , said yesterday he would ask for a postponement in UN-sponsored peace talks . |
| 26 | Mr Mark Gale , who was fined £50 after completing his poll tax registration form in Arabic , said yesterday he will appeal against the penalty . |
| 27 | There was nothing more he could say in the way of argument , so he decided to plague her other address with mail . |
| 28 | Sooner or later he would emerge from the woodwork and proceed to make a bearable situation unbearable . |
| 29 | Rambo is a tup lamb … when he grows up he 'll run with the flock as a ram . |
| 30 | Now he could see to the lane that led to the pavillon . |