Example sentences of "[conj] he [modal v] [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Doctor followed the narrow road down through a small valley , before climbing back up towards a bare hilltop where he could make out a number of tiny wooden crosses , like a forest of lifeless bonsai trees . |
| 2 | Or he could rent out the property … |
| 3 | But Ramsay , concerned at this display of Dunbar 's attitude , decided that he ought to stay on a little longer at Berwick , in Seton 's support . |
| 4 | He could exhibit such a stolidity in this regard that the Captain more than once suggested that he might drop down the order , ‘ to add ballast to the middle ’ . |
| 5 | He never developed a major following there — even , as far as can be seen , in the early 1470s when there was still a possibility that he might take on a political role . |
| 6 | He never developed a major following there — even , as far as can be seen , in the early 1470s when there was still a possibility that he might take on a political role . |
| 7 | The warning by a deranged Muslim guerrilla that he would blow up the Visegrad hydroelectric dam unless Serb militiamen ceased their artillery attacks on Visegrad and Foca was not the only liquid that threatened to flood Bosnia-Hercegovina this week . |
| 8 | On March 2 Pedro Mendes Jurado became the new Attorney General ; he stated that he would step up the battle against terrorism and drug trafficking . |
| 9 | Alec had been an F in first year , an F in second year and he was worried — no , perhaps terrified is a better word — that he would end up an F even in his third year . |
| 10 | Another faction was led by the conservative former NSF secretary Velicu Redina , who declared that he would set up a new social democratic NSF . |
| 11 | José informed us in perfect English that he would pick up the sail in the morning and deliver it , completely repaired , by that afternoon . |
| 12 | STEVE COPPELL last night tried to stamp out speculation that he may quit Crystal Palace by vowing that he would see out the remaining 18 months of his contract . |
| 13 | He also said that he was settled in Leeds and intimated that he would see out the remaining 2 years of his contract . |
| 14 | That evening at supper Dunbar came to them and abruptly , without preamble , announced that he would take over the keepership of Berwick Castle forthwith . |
| 15 | Similarly , the motorist who discovers that he should pull out the choke button a particular amount so as to get the car to start on a cold morning is also an empiricist . |
| 16 | And so I was extremely surprised when no more than weeks later Émile telephoned Jean-Claude and proposed to him the idea that he should take up an appointment as composer-in-residence at an American university . |
| 17 | The eldest son of a prosperous producer of soya oil and saki , in Nagoya , the parents of Morita expected that he should take over the control of the family business . |
| 18 | It is a mark of Hilton 's clarity of thought and practical spirituality that he should pick up the episcopal ideal of a composite life-style and set it up as the modus vivendi for a spiritually — minded temporal lord . |
| 19 | Nor would he accept that he should work out the sum due by looking at the cost of providing a type of car which Mr Shove ‘ might reasonably be expected to acquire in his present circumstances ’ . |
| 20 | I quickly talked him out of that , telling him that he must find out the truth before passing judgment , and reminding him that he had had a good marriage . |
| 21 | Moreover , the President believed that the time had come to use the great power of the USA not only to end the war but to ensure , through a place at the Peace Conference , that he could bring about a " just peace " . |
| 22 | Truman 's new secretary of state , James F. Byrnes , was at first serenely confident that he could carry on the Roosevelt approach to Stalin with the American nuclear monopoly in reserve in his " hip pocket " , and with no automatic supporting role for the British . |
| 23 | I had watched Quintin under pressure during the Suez crisis where he had shown admirable calm at the Admiralty in testing circumstances ; and while I had some misgivings about his famous ‘ judgement ’ I felt that he could take on the leadership and the job of Prime Minister , and make a success of it . |
| 24 | She knew where she had got the notion that he could buy up the whole of her street with the petty cash . |
| 25 | After a week or two 's good behaviour Nigel began to feel the need to prove to himself that he could pick up a genuine , bona-fide amateur about the same age as Caroline — someone young enough to be his daughter , in other words . |
| 26 | The general had in turn given him a picture of their problems with the Yugoslavs in Venezia Giulia : " General Harding was convinced that he could force out the Jugoslavs in their present numbers but it would of course entail an operation of Importance . |
| 27 | But what I did say , and he said he could do it , was to divide up , to compare us , that he could divide up the profitability and I 'm not sure that , you know i in terms of |
| 28 | He used to sleep in the church during air raids so that he could put out the fire bombs . |
| 29 | So then he sank onto the floor , to make himself as small as possible so that he could wait out the agony . |
| 30 | Then we got Brian back — ’ Brian ! — ‘ because I could n't stand your father worrying that he 'd fall down a rock face . ’ |