Example sentences of "he [modal v] [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aethelred 's parents had been married in 762 , so he will only have been about 11 when he became king on Alhred 's expulsion and those around him must have exercised real power . |
| 2 | The spectacle of the principal apologist for Official Nationality biting the hand that fed him must have convinced many doubters that the regime which Alexander II had inherited was intolerable . |
| 3 | We considered that he ought to have taken these points during the hearing itself and , in so far as they were of a technical procedural nature , he had waived his right to advance them because he was content to allow the full two-day hearing to take place without complaining at the outset that he had been prejudiced by short notice of the hearing or by any procedural irregularity in the way the preliminary issue had been brought before the court . |
| 4 | ‘ He ought to have had good teeth . ’ |
| 5 | In The Prelude we can easily detect a similar pattern imposed upon experience , though Wordsworth is describing a poetic rather than a Christian vocation ; and though he may appear to use religious vocabulary ( see again the discussion on pages 89–91 ) , he is expounding a secular philosophy . |
| 6 | He may deserve to have such authority . |
| 7 | Now with regard to auditors in particular , er he will know because he 's had some correspondence with me er on this particular subject , it is the view of the government that the er recognised professional body , the Institute of Chartered Accounts in England and Wales , is best placed as a professional body , to supervise er this sector er an argument can be mounted and no doubt he may seek to use this debate to do just that , to say that er this should be the subject of some direct er rule from Whitehall . |
| 8 | Gundobad fled to Avignon , where he may have received Visigothic support . |
| 9 | This apart , a judge may always consider or vary any decision before " the Order has been perfected " , meaning before it has been sealed and sent out ; he may have to give further opportunity to be heard , if he is going to make a change , see Note to Ord 5 , r 5 . |
| 10 | Pearce has been told he may have to sell top players such as David Leworthy , the league 's leading scorer , or Dean Coney in a bid to balance the books . |
| 11 | He may have created some drama , but the only thing the scenario proved was that Bowe does n't want to fight Lennox . |
| 12 | Accordingly , it is not clear what rights are accepted by the transferee ; he may have accepted non-existing rights relying upon fraudulent information in a receipt message transmitted to him by someone pretending to be the carrier . |
| 13 | ‘ That 's the best thing about Mark ; he may have scored 28 goals himself , but he 's probably created about half of our goals entirely , ’ says his Ibrox team-mate John Brown . |
| 14 | ‘ He may have sold some cars on the side . ’ |
| 15 | Given the complexities of Merovingian family politics , Chlothar 's denial of paternity is not conclusive : he may have had good reason to disassociate himself from Gundovald 's mother . |
| 16 | ‘ Perhaps not , and he may have had sentimental reasons for going to the little hut , but I want to be sure . |
| 17 | Nowhere so far in my limited knowledge of the pair has evidence of shorthand materialised — ; although at law he may have had some awareness of the skill . |
| 18 | Essentially viceroy of the newly conquered lands , his position suggests the confidence which Edward placed in him ; and he may have had some influence , as his Savoyard friends and kinsmen certainly did , on the design of the castles by which Wales was to be held down . |
| 19 | He may have had more experience outside court than I have because I 've had none . |
| 20 | Like most men he felt that he was hard done by , but he may have had more reason than most … |
| 21 | For instance , he may have found it impossible to meet his parents ' aspirations for him and never attained a secure relationship with them , or he may have repeatedly been told he was unlovable and incompetent , or he may have experienced actual loss of a parent . |
| 22 | He may have died 27 December 1936 , his twenty-first birthday . |
| 23 | Often the programmer rounds these to single-length values , but in order to retain precision he may wish to manipulate double-length operands ( particularly if the word-length is short ) . |
| 24 | As for the unlikely event that the hon. Gentleman sketched , he may wish to test that policy with members of the SNP to find out precisely how such a system would work . |
| 25 | He should 've brought better chairs . |
| 26 | Presenter Esther Rantzen , commenting yesterday , said : ‘ One has to ask whether he should continue to try such cases . ’ |
| 27 | He should have played more comedy . ’ |
| 28 | The prime minister 's critics say all this is happening too late ; that he should have regrouped last autumn , and that the Canadian Titanic may founder even while the ministers switch deckchairs . |
| 29 | According to the opinion polls , 60% of the electorate thinks he should have gone last August . |
| 30 | I , you see I think that instead of , instead of Lawson putting interest rates up to squeeze inflation out of the economy he should have stopped all credit . |