Example sentences of "he [modal v] [verb] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 At the church , me poor sister was near to swoonin' , our mum 'ad to give 'er smellin'-salts , with 'is reverend the vicar sayin' 'e 'd 'ave to cancel the ceremony .
2 Also , do not allow a player to make the ball dead behind his own goal-line unless he is being tackled ; a player making the ball dead when there is no player within 10 years of him should have to take a drop-out from under the posts .
3 Palmerston then interrupted , saying that he ought to have consulted the House first .
4 Had the hoaxer or murderer shown him a pattern which he ought to study to find the sender 's intention and ultimately his identity ?
5 He may choose to have the book bound , but this is by no means an automatic decision .
6 He may long to skip an afternoon 's school and play on the swings instead , but the thought of disapproving parents weighs more heavily than the thought of a couple of hours ' fun .
7 If he feels very unsafe , because the traffic is moving fast , he may prefer to ask a passer-by to help him across the road .
8 Mystical experience never arrives out of the blue ; it is always influenced by the religious milieu of the mystic , even though he may want to transcend the beliefs and attitudes that he found there .
9 But meanwhile clearance for the dam continues and the likely new environment minister , Barry Jones , says he may attempt to get a court injunction to halt work .
10 He captured three quick wickets before Richards and Lloyd ( who passed 7,000 Test runs ) steadied the ship , but then had Richards lbw , although umpire Meyer later admitted that he may have made a mistake and had considered recalling the batsman .
11 Mike Phelan looked like he may have discovered a passage into the second round with a fierce drive which spun off a defender with the goalkeeper stranded .
12 His parents believe he may have wanted the money to buy a house .
13 Not only do they hold good against the trustee himself , and against his creditors during his life-time and his representatives after his death , but also against all to whom he may have transferred the property , and who can not show that they acquired it for value and without notice of the trust .
14 No record exists of his education : he may have attended the grammar school at Bury St Edmunds or a charity school in nearby Hawstead maintained by a kinsman , Sir Dudley Cullum , who became his brother-in-law in 1710 .
15 He may have heard the cow moaning as she gave birth , his ears sensitized to noises the rest of us would not have heard , as we sat talking and laughing around the fire .
16 He may have contravened the rules you devised , for your admittedly entertaining method of execution by single combat .
17 He may have created a settlement overseas which in turn owns an underlying company , which underlying company receives UK dividends .
18 It seems unlikely that Minkowski would have come across Smith 's earlier work directly , but he may have seen the reference to them in a paper of Ferdinand Frobenius , which appeared in the main German mathematical journal shortly before the competition was announced .
19 Dante would appear to have seen a striking clock at least fifteen years before the Visconti clock of 1335 was installed ; he may have seen the iron clock placed in the campanile of the church of Sant' Eustorgio in Milan in 1309 — the first Italian public clock of which we have knowledge .
20 It is eminently practical , and he thinks he may have started a trend .
21 Here he may have got the idea from a later , but heavily revised and largely independent , version of the duet , included in an appendix to the volume ( pp 439–41 ) .
22 And he may have taken a drink or two to steady his nerves .
23 No , no he was n't well , I went to see her er I think he may have had a stroke and he ca n't get about very well at all
24 Most of the printed newsbooks now attributed to Mabbott 's editorship were probably not written by him , although there is some evidence that he may have had a hand in The Perfect Diurnall ( 1642–55 ) , edited by Samuel Pecke .
25 So how he came to be carrying a cannister of CS gas is being invistigated … he may have had an accomplice .
26 Thomas Garvine ( possibly an early version of the surnames Garven and Girvan common in Ayrshire at present ) is thought to have been born about 1685 , in or near Kilmarnock , although the Earl of Loudoun 's intervention on his behalf suggests that he may have had an Irvine valley connection .
27 In association with his technically minded relative , Thomas ( the exact relationship is not known ) , he may have had an iron furnace and hammer-pond at Hamsell Farm , and possibly a smelter and perhaps a coining press in Isleworth at the end of the century .
28 Jim may have known the assailant or he may have entered the house either quietly or under a pretence
29 He once returned to his old school and told staff : ‘ By the time I 've paid my analyst as much as my father paid you , he may have undone the damage you did . ’
30 ‘ He 's circling again but if the undercarriage fails it looks as if he may have to make a crash landing .
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