Example sentences of "he [modal v] [verb] [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are some who would question his recording of details on site suggesting that in his eagerness to move on to the next find he may neglect to tidy up the details left behind . |
| 2 | There 's speculation that he may have to sell off a collection of Ferraris . |
| 3 | Alternatively he may have sent out a notice of appointment . |
| 4 | Flowers , a surprise call-up a month ago when the squads for the World Cup double in Poland and Norway were announced , so much looked the part as Chris Woods 's stand-in that he may have leapfrogged up the goalkeeping queue . |
| 5 | For many people the saddest aspect was the selectors ' policy of playing Randall at number three ; every fan in the country could have told them that he should have batted down the order and that exposing him so early was almost certain to fail . |
| 6 | I can therefore understand why at that awful moment he should seek to summon up a talisman of words , a secret defence against abomination , or perhaps even an excuse in the form of some kind of precedent that a word expresses and so takes the edge of uniqueness off the contemplated evil . |
| 7 | The water really is n't that hot , usually , but my other one was fiddling with the boiler earlier — he must have turned up the thermostat . |
| 8 | He must have put up a bit of a struggle , but they were a persuasive bunch , those women , and the two nans in alliance were practically irresistible . |
| 9 | Hopefully he 'll have calmed down a bit ! |
| 10 | He might have put up a good show the other day , but that was because he was frightened . |
| 11 | Or in North Africa , having left the 11th Field Regiment , he might have sat out the rest of the war in luxury , gaining rank through time and , come the Peace , have been a live major instead of a dead lieutenant . |
| 12 | Keep him from chasing younger birds — if he could 've summoned up the energy . |
| 13 | Athelstan dosed his eyes , praying from whatever psalm he could remember to fend off the awful terrors which clung to the world of men . |
| 14 | ‘ I doubt if he could have kept up the masquerade for that long . ’ |
| 15 | Here he could have seen out the war , but he , and Reg Wallace , another RAF evader , ‘ escaped ’ into France and joined the Maquis . |
| 16 | He was sure , not only because he could have written out a set of instructions there and then , if he had had any paper , but because he could imagine all the minute details of doing those things . |
| 17 | Heather Bailey said her husband told her how he 'd cut cut down a parachute in hangar 8 at RAF Hullavington and lit it with a match . |
| 18 | Now he 'd have to pick out a tie . |
| 19 | No , I 'd have thought he 'd have put up a better show than that . |
| 20 | ‘ I saw him as fleeing the violent campus situation in America for the peaceful English countryside on a conscious level , while on an unconscious level he would begin to set up the conflict in the small town he went to . |
| 21 | At that moment he would have given up every moment of his past and future freedom to have her at his side . |
| 22 | Had it not been for Pam 's voice cajoling him onward and upward , he would have given up the struggle . |
| 23 | He believed that he would have to give up a career to which he was deeply committed and which had promised to be highly successful . |
| 24 | Once his identity was known , he would have to give up the singing . |
| 25 | ‘ Pray , sir , may I ask you , do you think that if St. Paul happened to be travelling with us and had passed the place where he was born , that he would have pointed out the fact to us ? ’ |
| 26 | He would have to dredge up an interest in his least favourite pupils and submit himself to a barrage of child-obsessed monologues from people he barely remembered from the year before . |
| 27 | It did n't stop him from wanting to ask questions but from now on he would have to find out the answers himself . |
| 28 | On Aug. 17 Lewandowski had said that he would recommend shutting down the entire copper complex , which included the Lubin mines , if the strike continued . |
| 29 | On Aug. 17 Lewandowski had said that he would recommend shutting down the entire copper complex , which included the Lubin mines , if the strike continued . |
| 30 | To do so , he will need to rest up a little , for an old body is a less willing one . |