Example sentences of "he [modal v] [vb infin] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To force Lawrie Smith to a match-race play-off he must finish in the top six nations . |
| 2 | I know he could walk in the next lesson and things would be perfectly OK . |
| 3 | Robert Hardy says he re-arranged his schedule to make sure he could appear in the final episode of Inspector Morse . |
| 4 | Then , he could soak in the vivid feeling of the song until the sweat stood out in gobbets on his forehead and his veins swelled in his neck like vines and Nunzia and Maria Filippa listening would wring their hands , invoking the protection of all the saints against that winged demon Fate flapping at his back . |
| 5 | ‘ I reckon he could play in the Premier League and I 've no hesitation in saying that . ’ |
| 6 | It was a shed hand actually , he did n't , was n't responsible for cash although he helped the cashier and er , I well remember this erm in those days the conductor used to either run into depot with the bus or he 'd get relief on the Cornhill , he walked down to the depot carrying his cash in his cash bag and then he 'd sit in the paying in room and he 'd laboriously cam carried out his cash , piling the pennies into stacks , the ha'pennies , the tokens , the sixpences , every denomination . |
| 7 | Up sixty per cent this year in Turkey , he 'd read in The Financial Times . |
| 8 | I wonder how long he would last in the emasculated Audit Commission about which the Labour party has talked . |
| 9 | Although Ceauşescu kept open the question of who would succeed him as both Party leader and head of state , by the 1980s there were only two candidates whom he would tolerate in the necessary launching-pad positions around him . |
| 10 | Then he would kiss it where he knew its mistress 's lips had been not long before ( the location of the kiss remains a matter of debate : some say on the muzzle , some say on the top of the head ) ; he would whisper in the shaggy ear of Nero ( or Thabor ) the secrets he longed to whisper in the ear that lay between the muslin dress and the straw hat ; and he would burst into tears . |
| 11 | Annie was hoping he would go in the opposite direction when they got to the end of the path leading from the rose gardens but to her dismay he moved into step beside her . |
| 12 | On Jan. 20 Chalerm , leader of the Muan Chon , announced that he would stand in the forthcoming elections . |
| 13 | He would sit in the drab offices of social workers . |
| 14 | From about this time , or a little later , he was also meditating , according to Du Camp , a novel about the theatre ; he would sit in the green room jotting down the confidences of over-candid actresses . |
| 15 | He did not feel that he needed to apologize , and said that if similar circumstances arose he would act in the same way . |
| 16 | Duke , whose campaign had been opposed personally by both Reagan and Bush , announced on Dec. 4 that he would run in the open primary for election as a state senator even though he failed to be ratified by the Republican party 's state convention . |
| 17 | He scheduled the announcement of his chancellor-candidacy for March 19th on the assumption that he would bask in the reflected glory of a victory by the East German Social Democrats the day before . |
| 18 | Bruce Springsteen began the Eighties with The River , an uneven double album but one which staked out the broad territory over which he would roam in the ensuing years . |
| 19 | He will go in the same as myself . |
| 20 | This was a topical point as Faldo is currently ‘ up in the air ’ on whether he will play in the American Nabisco Grand Prix or the last European event , the Volvo Masters . |
| 21 | He will take in the Cookstown 100 , as he has a very strong supporters club there , and the North West 200 , provided he can fit in the following day 's Donington Park meeting . |