Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] he [modal v] [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For himself he will take a handful of the pencils they always leave out for you … |
| 2 | Sometimes , another dealer tipped off a director as to the identities of miscreants , so as to curry favour for which he might reap a tangible reward like extra leads . |
| 3 | A week later , Warren Beatty grabbed him for the role of Clyde 's brother Buck in Bonnie and Clyde , for which he would gain an Oscar nomination . |
| 4 | Certainly the picture of him during this period is of a man haunted by guilt and remorse ; it seems that he felt he had no right to happiness , and the death of his wife had only served to convince him that he had done some irreparable harm to another human being , for which he must undergo a period of punishment . |
| 5 | Recent press reports disclose that Wall Street investment banker Dennis Levine , recently convicted and gaoled for insider trading , has written a book entitled Inside Out : An Insider 's Account of Wall Street for which he will receive an undisclosed , but presumably large amount of money . |
| 6 | The best solution might thus be for the centre bollard to be held in place with a padlock , for which he will have a key . |
| 7 | He was in a fix — he had bought two papers and merged them together , and I was n't around , I was in New York , and I did the logo for him in a hurry , but I did n't have time to design a newspaper , nor was it the kind of thing for which he could pay a big design fee , so he described it on the phone and then he faxed me some pages of the existing papers , and I said well what you have to do is look at the old London Times and do that . |
| 8 | Edwin Garland felt uneasy , a vague shapeless unease for which he could find no immediate cause . |
| 9 | N. K. Sanders 's summary of the plot of the epic sets the scene : When the story begins he is in mature manhood , and superior to all other men in beauty and strength and the unsatisfied cravings of his half-divine nature , for which he can find no worthy match in love or in war ; while his daemonic energy is wearing his subjects out . |
| 10 | He looked at me as though he was trying to work out which part of me he would take a bit out of . |
| 11 | A Chairman shall be appointed for each meeting , at the close of which he shall name the Chairman for the one following , and the Member so named shall act in that capacity , unless the Meeting by a majority agree to some other . |
| 12 | Expansion , give him a little straw out of which he can make the bricks , have a couple of good stories and so on . |
| 13 | He gestured around at the conglomeration of abandoned implements , hardly any of which he could put a name on . |
| 14 | Below him he could hear the passing wail of sirens , a familiar sound after dark had fallen over the city . |
| 15 | Straight ahead of him he could see the dome of the Texas State Capitol , second-largest in the nation after the Capitol in Washington , gleaming in the late-morning sun . |
| 16 | Now , from what I know of him he can get a good sound out of anything , but the amps he 's been using recently ( until he had them nicked from his car ) were Marshall Valvestate 80s . |
| 17 | Just a desperate imitation of what he must think the real thing 's like . |
| 18 | He says that if he 's going to overshoot he 'll use a sea anchor or drop a stern anchor and if he stops short of us he 'll send a crew with a rope . |
| 19 | With them he can reprogram the Conscience to overcome the Voord 's immunisation , and re-establish peace on Marinus . |
| 20 | Eighth Army with whom he should have a direct point to point wireless link . |
| 21 | Eliot was a lonely man , and Hayward was the only single person he knew with whom he could share a flat . |
| 22 | As his wife , as his Louise , had slipped , there was no friend with whom he could share the sorrow he felt over his son . |
| 23 | Left with no one with whom he could discuss the farm-work and stock when the day 's toil was over , Jonadab became more and more morose , spending most evenings staring into the fire or wandering from building to building , checking his animals . |
| 24 | From morning to dusk on all days except the Sabbath , he was out in the marketplace among the other merchants trading in any commodity with which he could make a profit , including money itself . |
| 25 | He made for himself a special balance with which he could measure the exact proportions of two metals in a mixture or alloy . |
| 26 | with which he could banish the world . |
| 27 | If a coach believes that the black sportsman he is helping to prepare is naturally endowed with the physical equipment to produce fast sprints or hard jabs , or mazy runs through defences , it will affect his judgment as to the areas of speciality into which he should channel the efforts of that sportsman . |
| 28 | It felt rather like swimming under water in a glass tank : on all sides and above him he could see the world , the outer air , but he was not part of it . |
| 29 | With it he could express the body , the mass and density of things . |
| 30 | The councillor should become acquainted with the principal officers from whom he can gain a considerable amount of information and help . |