Example sentences of "he [modal v] [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now he knows I am here he may be more careful , or he may act more quickly than he had planned . ’ |
| 2 | In so doing he may come as near as he can ever hope to an understanding of war as people of the late Middle Ages knew it , no easy task even in the most favourable conditions , but one which can not be attempted with any hope of success without a proper appreciation of the many threads which make up history . |
| 3 | Second , he should leave as quickly as is courteously possible . |
| 4 | She had said he must marry only so as not to disappoint his mother ; but should he come to her one day and say he was about to marry someone , that would assuredly beat her into the ground . |
| 5 | ‘ My husband and I love Tobermory — well , we did before this afternoon — but now , of course , he must die as soon as possible . ’ |
| 6 | Once he is there he must find out exactly where ‘ there ’ is . |
| 7 | And he 's a sensible lad , with good prospects , he 'll do well enough when he 's finished studying at that university . |
| 8 | I 'm sure he 'll turn out better than the other one . |
| 9 | Channelling all the pain of her loss into arguments to support her theory , she leapt on to the promise of provision for her and the baby , and to the sentence , ‘ I 'm sure he 'll turn out better than the other one . ’ |
| 10 | If Norman Lamont keeps the job of Chancellor ( and he might do so only because of the shortlist of alternative candidates is embarrassingly short ) he may decide to delay the next cut in interest rates for long enough to convince the markets that he is serious about wanting to move sterling into narrow bands in the European exchange rate mechanism at its middle rate of Dm2.95 . |
| 11 | He joked to Philippa that he might react as badly as the sting victim on the TV show two weeks earlier . |
| 12 | He might behave more impulsively though I could be mistaken . |
| 13 | Tom looked as though he might stick around longer than all the girl graduates put together . |
| 14 | Even in wellingtons , he could move as lightly as a squirrel . |
| 15 | She would n't have believed that he could move so fast as , with a rushing like that of fluid from a punctured sac , the rotten body comes slithering out in a wave of its own juices . |
| 16 | For a powerful man , he could move very quietly when he had to . |
| 17 | She tried not to wish he could go away even though the room was cramping them . |
| 18 | Before he could go out so as to wait until he could have the place to himself , the figure levered himself up , bowed to the altar , and turned and saw him . |
| 19 | If he is interested in what is happening in the European Community , he could do no better than cast his eyes across to France where a socialist Government have just announced that country 's highest-ever unemployment level . |
| 20 | So he could do no worse than consider Tony Cottee , unwanted by Everton , Tranmere 's John Aldridge or Clive Allen of West Ham . |
| 21 | All right for Jazz , cap or not , for his dark body had a natural grace and he could swim far better than anyone had suspected . |
| 22 | From the king 's standpoint , the vital consequence was that in each county he had a loyal cadre of men whose services and renders he could call on directly when he chose . |
| 23 | He was well aware of how long Marie stayed here and he could calculate just exactly when she would be passing . |
| 24 | He could see quite clearly as he climbed the hill out of the village . |
| 25 | He knew he could get away safely because he had a reading back in London that evening , and it could n't lead to further meetings because he was going away soon . |
| 26 | Only in the last ten years or so had he been able to give up going to the country towns and villages for uncomfortable , if lucrative , one- or two-day visits ; only then had he found it possible to move from Jewtown to commodious rooms in Patrick Street , Cork 's main thoroughfare , where he could live as well as have his surgery . |
| 27 | In a panic I phoned tom to ask if he could come home early as I wanted to discuss Peter with him before the boy got home . |
| 28 | She wanted to say that he 'd feel all right when a little time had passed , just like you did at school when you were homesick at the beginning of term . |
| 29 | He 'd run away repeatedly as he 'd got older , never with anywhere to go but just anxious to be free of the confining walls and restrictive atmosphere . |
| 30 | When he realised that arriving at The Bar meant he was still only just at the start of his wanderings or journey , he ached some nights to be told that he need go no farther than this . |