Example sentences of "he [vb mod] [verb] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he feels very unsafe , because the traffic is moving fast , he may prefer to ask a passer-by to help him across the road . |
| 2 | But meanwhile clearance for the dam continues and the likely new environment minister , Barry Jones , says he may attempt to get a court injunction to halt work . |
| 3 | He captured three quick wickets before Richards and Lloyd ( who passed 7,000 Test runs ) steadied the ship , but then had Richards lbw , although umpire Meyer later admitted that he may have made a mistake and had considered recalling the batsman . |
| 4 | Mike Phelan looked like he may have discovered a passage into the second round with a fierce drive which spun off a defender with the goalkeeper stranded . |
| 5 | He may have created a settlement overseas which in turn owns an underlying company , which underlying company receives UK dividends . |
| 6 | It is eminently practical , and he thinks he may have started a trend . |
| 7 | And he may have taken a drink or two to steady his nerves . |
| 8 | No , no he was n't well , I went to see her er I think he may have had a stroke and he ca n't get about very well at all |
| 9 | Most of the printed newsbooks now attributed to Mabbott 's editorship were probably not written by him , although there is some evidence that he may have had a hand in The Perfect Diurnall ( 1642–55 ) , edited by Samuel Pecke . |
| 10 | ‘ He 's circling again but if the undercarriage fails it looks as if he may have to make a crash landing . |
| 11 | He may have admitted a friend or relative , although that 's even more doubtful . |
| 12 | It was thought he may have set a match to it himself . |
| 13 | If the general practitioner pronounces the patient fit enough , he may be able to start driving a car again , although he may need to retake a driving test if he has not been able to drive for several months . |
| 14 | He may need to do a bit of work on the accent , but McIntosh is beginning to sound like a natural Scottish no.8 . |
| 15 | and you know , tonight , tonight , tonight I wanted to , I wanted to have a knock about with my old sparring partner but he 's ill , he 's very ill from what I 've heard tonight and he should go see a doctor . |
| 16 | I was sad and angry that he should want to place a bolt and go so radically against the grain ; sympathetic with Dave 's strong conviction ; peeved that my own route — Centrefold — had been usurped . |
| 17 | ‘ He should have done a bit of minding years ago . ’ |
| 18 | They claim he should have faced a Crown Court judge for causing death by reckless driving . |
| 19 | He should have raced a lot more , beaten a lot more people ; he was certainly capable of it . |
| 20 | He missed a few chances ; reckoned he should have scored a hat-trick . |
| 21 | It is astonishing that he should have made a riposte about housing benefit being available to the poor for housing costs and to have given the impression that he was in favour of housing benefit . |
| 22 | He should have made a point of looking at the evening coverage before doing his own piece ; but he 'd seen the people they 'd sent to the press conference at the hospital , dismissed them as unlikely to do a decent job on it , and promptly forgotten them . |
| 23 | It is surely one of the most cruel twists of fate that a man who has demonstrated such commitment , as well as compassion to overcome so many other problems during his life — and indeed to have helped so many others to have done the same — that he should have become a victim of medical science . |
| 24 | Although Pond praised him as a ‘ middle-class Englishman … the personification of all their sterling traits and sturdy characteristics ’ , there were problems over whether or not he should have taken a fee for giving a eulogy on his friend , Henry Ward Beecher , at Beecher 's Brooklyn church . |
| 25 | I thought Collimore had good break three against two and I thought the the ball he should have played he should have measured a ball into er Kingsley Black 's stride . |
| 26 | I was amused by J. Lipton 's letter in the November issue , in which he says that having driven a nail in the wood , if it splits , he knows he should have used a screw . |
| 27 | Many believe he should have had a career in professional soccer but in those days , as now , top scouts were unaccountably remiss in visiting ‘ The Tip ’ . |
| 28 | No one will explain why he should have had a turtle-shell to lie in instead of some more orthodox cradle , but during the anti-monarchical excesses of the French Revolution this venerable carapace is said to have been saved from destruction by a naturalist of Pau , who was able to switch it for one without any such incriminatory associations from his own collection . |
| 29 | ( He should have won a Nobel Prize for general relativity , but the idea that space and time were curved was still regarded as too speculative and controversial , so they gave him a prize for the photoelectric effect instead — ; not that it was not worth the prize on its own account . ) |
| 30 | FATHER 'S LOVE Lucy 's disability helped convince Mr Stringer that he should strive to provide a home for the mentally handi-capped which he would be happy to see his own daughter live in . |