Example sentences of "he [modal v] [verb] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Co-operating with him might lead to a sell-out before they had even started . |
| 2 | Held , allowing the appeal ( Lord Lowry dissenting ) , that an act expressly or impliedly authorised by the owner of goods or consented to by him could amount to an appropriation of the goods within section 1(1) of the Theft Act 1968 where such authority or consent had been obtained by deception ; and that , accordingly , the defendant had been rightly convicted of theft ( post , pp. 1073F , 1076G–H , 1080C–F , 1081C–D , 1109F , 1111E ) . |
| 3 | He 's so good at bottling things up , he ought to work in a ketchup factory . ’ |
| 4 | He may fail as a result of natural disasters but no one can blame him for that . |
| 5 | He says he feels sorry for his brother , he fears he may return to a life of crime if he gets desperate for cash . |
| 6 | When the glider is desperately low the pilot 's handling often goes to pieces , and he may over-rudder in an effort to get round a final turn without touching a wing-tip or turning any steeper . |
| 7 | He may sit at a table , which has to be big enough to spread the garment out on it . |
| 8 | On the other hand a diary entry such as ‘ ring X ’ is effective and if the entry is some way in the future it may be necessary to amplify with a trigger of the form ‘ ring X re Y ’ and to have easily accessible some factual data such as the X telephone number and some data re Y. In a different context a car driver will develop a strategy to ensure that he does not run out of petrol , he may rely on a light which appears when the tank is nearly empty or he may calculate from his expected travelling that he need not concern himself about the issue until at least the next weekend , or he may programme himself to react to the fact that he is approaching a particular garage . |
| 9 | A typical formula provides that the parent company will indemnify an expatriate against any loss or expense he may suffer as a result of a breach of contract by the subsidiary , for instance if the employment is terminated before the expiry of a specified fixed term . |
| 10 | He may revert to an attendance allowance by further written notice . |
| 11 | He may enter into a contract of service or may agree to give his exclusive services to another : then during the period of the contract he is not entitled to engage in other business activities . |
| 12 | As pope he may judge in a matter of broken oaths , an imperfectly observed treaty and a breach of the peace . |
| 13 | It 's something that gives his performance in Glory a genuinely affecting complexity , something which suggests he may develop into an actor with some depth . |
| 14 | Warrants , addressed to the High Court tipstaff or the county court registrar and bailiff , can be issued to arrest a bankrupt where there are reasonable grounds for believing that he may abscond with a view to avoiding or delaying payment of his debts or his appearance to a petition or to avoiding , delaying or disrupting any proceedings against him or any examination of his affairs ( s 364(1) and r 7.21 ) . |
| 15 | Further ( i ) he may apply for an order for the costs incurred by him before the receipt of the notice of payment into court where the defendant has legal aid or where Ord 11 , r 4(2) ( see below ) applies , or ( ii ) in any other case provided he abandons all other claims , he may lodge a bill of costs for taxation , or have costs assessed and if the costs allowed are not paid within 14 days , he may have judgment entered for them ( Ord 11 , r 3(5) ) . |
| 16 | Try to persuade him to make a real effort to give up smoking — he may put on a bit of weight but he can tackle that later — and to eat frequent snacks throughout the day instead of two or three heavy meals . |
| 17 | Alternatively , he may provide for a change in the method of rent review , and if this is done it is usual to revert to the more traditional method of periodic reviews to market rent . |
| 18 | He may begin as a standard-bearer and allow himself to be persuaded to go forward as a contender . ’ |
| 19 | My advice is that he should pull into a lay-by , turf the others out and then hand the wheel over to firmer and safer hands . |
| 20 | He arranged bridging-loans and a mortgage to make up the price of the tall house with the basement into which she had decided he should move as a lodger , abandoning his awful little bed-sit in Chepstow Road . |
| 21 | ‘ to provide the laws under which the object of his charity was to be governed and to be sole judge of the interpretation and application of those laws either by himself or by such person as he should appoint as a visitor … ’ |
| 22 | Someone unkindly suggested he should audition for a part in Jaws as a fish . |
| 23 | He should think for a moment what that means . |
| 24 | Maybe he should go for a contract killing . |
| 25 | She was determined he should qualify as a doctor and just as determined that he should practise here . |
| 26 | Law was thus besieged with demands that he should retreat to a compromise position as Balfour had done in 1910 , and again these demands came from tariff reformers as well as free-traders . |
| 27 | The principle that no man can be a judge in his own cause may also be infringed if a person has so actively identified himself with the temperance cause , by his actions in campaigning against the granting of certificates , that it would be contrary to elementary justice that he should act as a member of a licensing board . |
| 28 | And he said if Rocastle felt he had no future at Leeds he should ask for a transfer . |
| 29 | David and I did have conversations about it and I told David that I thought he should get an accountant , or that he should ask for an account from Tony if he had questions about where money was going . |
| 30 | In 1901 , he accepted the post of Missioner to the Deaf and Dumb in Oxford ; it was here that an undergraduate suggested he should try for a University degree at Oxford , but permission was refused . |