Example sentences of "he [modal v] [verb] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He may hand over the means of control of the goods , e.g. the key to the premises where they are housed . |
| 2 | When John Nobles , a kersey clothier in the West Riding parish of Kirkburton , made his will in 1715 he directed his supervisors to ‘ chuse such a master for my son where he may learn both the clothier trade and husbandry ’ when he reached the age of 14 . |
| 3 | Consequently , he will not advise on the merits of a settlement offer , although with a view to increasing the likelihood of a deal , he may point out the strengths and weaknesses of each side 's arguments . |
| 4 | He asked the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff if he should pull out the Ariadne which they knew , of course , was sitting over the crashed plane . |
| 5 | Similarly , the motorist who discovers that he should pull out the choke button a particular amount so as to get the car to start on a cold morning is also an empiricist . |
| 6 | Labour MP Frank Field , who chairs the Social Security Select Committee , said last night : ‘ When he is back in work , and can sell the house , he should pay back the DSS . ’ |
| 7 | When he was approached to run British Aerospace the government insisted he should give up the directorship of W$G , but Pearce , displaying his usual resolve , would n't hear of it . |
| 8 | I have given instructions to Brian Lewis that if members of staff are found trying to abuse this facility he should switch off the lift system entirety . |
| 9 | He convinced himself that speaking Italian to Franco presented a good opportunity to learn and therefore he should take up the challenge . |
| 10 | The eldest son of a prosperous producer of soya oil and saki , in Nagoya , the parents of Morita expected that he should take over the control of the family business . |
| 11 | It was his decision as to when he should take out the target . |
| 12 | Nor would he accept that he should work out the sum due by looking at the cost of providing a type of car which Mr Shove ‘ might reasonably be expected to acquire in his present circumstances ’ . |
| 13 | Most important of all , the cultural prohibitions on his genital urge are now fully enforced and he must give up the freedom of infantile sexual gratification for the responsibilities of adult life ; in short , he must obey the taboos against incest embodied in the elaborate kinship systems of the Australian aborigines and observe those against parricide enshrined in the totemic religion . |
| 14 | If a member of a committee receives a letter asking him to carry out some job for the committee between meetings , he must feed back the information that he will do this and , when he has done it , the information that he has done it . |
| 15 | As an executive his functions must be exercised impartially and he must carry out the policy as decided by the council free from any political bias . |
| 16 | But the critic who undertakes such a task becomes a scientist , and he must shut out the ornaments of speech and persuasive language of the impressionist as dangerous guests in the laboratory of literary dissection . |
| 17 | I quickly talked him out of that , telling him that he must find out the truth before passing judgment , and reminding him that he had had a good marriage . |
| 18 | He must find out the reason for it . |
| 19 | He must know where the money 's hidden . |
| 20 | He 'll go down the shutes alright . |
| 21 | ‘ When he puts a bad cross in , he 'll go down the line again a few minutes later and try once more . |
| 22 | He paused a moment to let his words sink in , and then added : " Perhaps he 'll explain away the case , reported officially to the Royal College of Physicians , of a dispenser who accidentally swallowed some of the so-called " rice-water " matter voided by a patient in a state of collapse from cholera … but who suffered no ill-effects whatsoever ! " |
| 23 | Christie raced and conducted himself afterwards in a way of which we can all be proud — and , I do n't really believe he 'll drag down the relay team . |
| 24 | ‘ But if Medoc does summon Crom Croich , ’ said another soldier , ‘ he 'll send out the Conablaiche to tear people 's hearts from their bodies , and that 's just as bad as the Erl-King . ’ |
| 25 | He 'll follow up the contact , phone Steven , drop by and see him . |
| 26 | Most women do n't really have a very high opinion of themselves , so if you start treating them as something special they think , ‘ Oh God , sooner or later he 'll find out the truth , and then he 'll despise me . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ He 'll hang out the laundry right across the valley , ’ Harvey said . |
| 28 | The record card for such a client was scribbled over with the comment of dealers : " He 's about to buy a house ; has no funds ; he 'll see how the shares he already has do ; he 's going in for Rolls Royce , so has no money ; he 's still waiting for share certificates — once these have arrived he will think about further investment . " |
| 29 | If , for instance , a doctor prescribes sleeping tablets for occasional use only , he might strike out the NP and put ‘ sleeping tablets ’ in the NP box . |
| 30 | He swept his hat from the dresser and crushed it on his head and went outside as if he might break down the doors in his way . |