Example sentences of "he [modal v] [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But unemployed Ray , 29 , fears he may miss the next Games in 1996 . |
| 2 | In short , he must do the little jobs about the place which a reasonable tenant would do . |
| 3 | And Larder , who was Goulding 's mentor on the 1990 tour to New Zealand , warns that he must control the wild instincts which keep getting him into hot water . |
| 4 | Niki 's statement is cut-throat in its clarity : ‘ If he [ Daniele ] is to give the orders , he must make the right decisions : right for me , for the team , for success . ’ |
| 5 | Epstein then insists that Brahe should ‘ tell ’ him about his work , but that he must use the right words , the words that he would use with his scientific colleagues . |
| 6 | He must receive the above certificates the day before the cremation is due to take place . |
| 7 | the French mayor gains more from a more efficient system , but to do so he must accept the technocratic values of the policy elite . |
| 8 | Tonight , he 'll explain the desperate measures to Governors . |
| 9 | Then she was giving him her mouth again so that he might swallow the choked cries of pleasure rising from her throat as the frenzy claimed her once more , and a little later she was thrashing against him , pleading hoarsely for his possession , until Luke held her down and sank into her with a harsh groan . |
| 10 | John Coffin , she felt sure , would not ; he might think the same things , but would not say them in that way . |
| 11 | He might have the likely lads behind him : Pringle from Kenya , Foster from Colchester , Waugh from Sydney and various waifs and strays that Essex Man has housed ; or he may be ready to bat . |
| 12 | He might have the likely lads behind him : Pringle from Kenya , Foster from Colchester , Waugh from Sydney and various waifs and strays that Essex Man has housed ; or he may be ready to bat . |
| 13 | He was crowned European indoor champion in Genoa early in the year and went to Barcelona believing he could reach the 100 metres final and challenge for a medal . |
| 14 | A SERBIAN warlord stormed out of the London peace conference on Yugoslavia yesterday — claiming he could wreck the vital talks . |
| 15 | He made for himself a special balance with which he could measure the exact proportions of two metals in a mixture or alloy . |
| 16 | Graham picked up his holdalls and walked away to the cafeteria , where he changed a couple of Swiss francs into loose change then made a call on one of the public telephones , positioning himself in such a way so he could study the two men as he described them to Philpott . |
| 17 | But Creggan could not escape , for he remembered Minch 's command to try ant help her , and anyway he could feel the same longings she felt . |
| 18 | Probably he could dodge the twenty coppers in ten cars that would be there in five minutes , and get clear away . |
| 19 | Moreover , he could recover the known formulas for four , six and eight squares although his method was quite different . |
| 20 | And he could attack the filled-in holes they 'd done in Upper Street earlier this morning . |
| 21 | Wistfully , Minton thought of marrying her for he could envisage the beautiful children that her looks and Ricky 's sperm would produce . |
| 22 | Her flesh was so creamy-white and fine that he could trace the blue veins under it . |
| 23 | He could approach the cataclysmic events of the forthcoming August with an adequate authority ; and he could in the future look back on 1931 with a certain complacency , as ‘ the year my party tried to get rid of me ’ . |
| 24 | He could see the upturned hulls of a few boats drawn up onto the shore , mostly of fibreglass but some of varnished timber , all of them de-rigged and tied down against the weather . |
| 25 | At the edge of his flashlight beam he could see the dampened flowers , flattened now by the steady fall of rain . |
| 26 | From the meadow edge , he could see the rear windows of the cabin . |
| 27 | As she leaned forward to twitch another grape from the bunch and almost toss it into her mouth he could see the faint freckles which smudged the dark forehead , the glisten of hairs above a carved upper lip . |
| 28 | Through the mist he could see the vague outlines of the priory church and followed its outline round to the ruined oak stump where Lady Eleanor had received her mysterious messages . |
| 29 | Through the heavy fretwork of its top windows he could see the towering minarets of the Bab es Zuweyla , and from the box window of the storey below , where he was standing when Sesostris approached , he had a good view along the street in both directions . |
| 30 | He could see the separate strands of spray thrown aside by the bows and make out the shadow of the helmsman in the wheelhouse . |