Example sentences of "he [modal v] [adv] [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also deduction of the Fund 's initial charge ( where applicable ) means that if an investor withdraws from his investment in the short term he may not get back the amount he originally invested . |
| 2 | They say he may not live out the summer . ’ |
| 3 | Apart from dealing with the matter of the will if one was made , it may be agreed , if your parent wishes , that he should also take on the responsibility for contacting various persons and organisations : the bank , to arrange for money to be available to her pending the settlement of her husband 's affairs ; her husband 's employer and Trade Union branch secretary , or the secretary of any professional association to which he belonged ; his insurance company ; the Department of Health and Social Security , to obtain forms for claiming the death grant and the widow 's pension ; the Inland Revenue , if her husband was still paying income tax ; the Building Society , the mortgagor ( or landlord if she and her husband lived in rented property ) and any other person or organisation concerned . |
| 4 | Coleman knew them already — they had been to see him at the University of Alabama while planning the trip — and so it was natural enough that he should now take on the chore of shepherding them around the island during their stay . |
| 5 | If he had any energy left over he might well indulge in a bit more naughty meddling . |
| 6 | He would see it through , he would find the Way Out , And he might not even stop at simply escaping ; he might just smash up the whole foul contraption of their testing and imprisonment apparatus — this " life " — while he was about It . |
| 7 | He could even pick out the dots of furze bushes and stunted yew trees on the steep slopes . |
| 8 | He heard two men arguing , but with water lapping in his ears he could n't make out the words . |
| 9 | On another low table by the wall there was an inexpensive stereo unit and some uneven stacks of records ; he could n't make out the details on the posters on the wall above the unit , but they might have been Escher prints . |
| 10 | ‘ He could n't go out the front door to play without being mugged . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ He did n't like none of it , so he sort of copped out , gave up eating one fine day , till he could n't stand up no more , could n't do what he was told on the airfield . |
| 12 | He tried to hit me , kept pummelling me with his podgy fists , but he could n't summon up the necessary enthusiasm . |
| 13 | If he could n't keep up the whacked — out , languid image , you feel he 'd be ripping himself apart with guilt and recriminations . |
| 14 | The cubicle was thick with fragranced fog but he could just make out a dark hunched shape on the floor near the door . |
| 15 | As he ran through the list , he could just make out the wording of the certificate over the mantelpiece : ‘ Ancient Guild of Foresters ’ . |
| 16 | Looking towards the middle of the room he could just make out the hulk of the engine , even more dense than the surrounding dark . |
| 17 | If he squinted his eyes , he could just make out the greyness of the roof between the trees and here and there the stony finger of a chimney-stack . |
| 18 | Through the middle kitchen window he could just make out the open gate , the wooden ramp covering the steps and the first huge saddle-back sow ambling down into the yard . |
| 19 | The dirty chipped name plate was difficult to read but he could just make out the word Nettles on it . |
| 20 | He could just make out the chicken . |
| 21 | He could just make out the name in spite of the peeling paint . |
| 22 | As he gazed out , down the enormous length of the ship , he could just make out the dark outline against the lighter sea , and the rectangular shapes of the deck-covered containers . |
| 23 | He could just make out the sand dunes now , a blond strip on the far side of the lake , a good ten miles away . |
| 24 | He could just make out the great empty arch of the east window and beyond it the shimmer of the North Sea while above , seeming to move through and over it like a censer , swung the smudged yellow disc of the moon . |
| 25 | He could just make out the two rows of cottages and the fields beyond them . |
| 26 | Straining his eyes , he could just make out the two boxes which were stacked in the far corner of the room and a picture frame which was propped up against them . |
| 27 | Between the ranks of bared heads ( one or another of which would occasionally turn to take a quick glance of inspection at his own face ) he could just make out the graceful figure of Mrs Wright herself , kneeling on a hassock in front of the table . |
| 28 | He could just make out the railway embankment from here , but not the station or the building that used to be the Turk 's Head . |
| 29 | A large spider 's web occupied one corner of the room near the ceiling and he could just make out the spider lurking there , quite motionless ; emulating Mr Micawber , waiting for something to turn up . |
| 30 | He could just make out the bottom of the iron saucepan in which the mussels were still boiling for his guests . |