Example sentences of "he [modal v] [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was so struck with the place that when I came back to Le Court I told John that he ought to go there for a visit . |
| 2 | ‘ I seem to remember , ’ said the Succentor , feeling he ought to figure somewhere in the conversation , ‘ some very grand tombs in St Benet . |
| 3 | Parliament may make it a crime for a Frenchman to smoke on the streets of Paris but he may puff away on the Montparnasse with impunity ( until , that is , he arrives at Dover ) . |
| 4 | On top of that , Wright has his England future to worry about because much as he may look forward to an avalanche of goals against San Marino in February , first he must ensure his presence in the team , then be in control of himself when the chances come . |
| 5 | If the patient has been referred to a hospital or has sought emergency treatment at a hospital , then he may proceed either against the negligent individual , the relevant Health Authority , or both . |
| 6 | ( 8 ) If any party to an appeal to the sheriff under any provision of this Act ( other than Part VII ) is dissatisfied in point of law with a decision of the sheriff , he may appeal therefrom to the Court of Session within 28 days from the date of that decision . |
| 7 | He should legislate now for a referendum to be held once the negotiations at Maastricht are complete . |
| 8 | It somehow did n't surprise her that he should go straight to the heart of things . |
| 9 | When , in November , Coleridge was persuaded by his Bristol friends that he should return permanently to the city , he expressed sadness at leaving Clevedon , but probably felt relatively little , even though the only home available to him and Sara was in cramped quarters in Mrs Fricker 's house . |
| 10 | Provided a tribe member can recognise an intention that he should respond appropriately to a signal in the simple system , we are happy to regard the signal as linguistically meaningful to him , rather than simply causing or triggering certain behaviour — as was the case with the bees . |
| 11 | If the seller does agree to convey them , he must do so within a reasonable length of time , section 29(3) . |
| 12 | His eyes were wired open so that he must stare unblinkingly at a giant Sagramoso head , and his own body had been reduced to roughly the same contours . |
| 13 | He must sit upright at a table to eat his meals : he can not eat off a tray sitting in bed or an easy chair . |
| 14 | He must listen attentively to the tales of how the amateur would have broken sixty-five in a competition last Saturday if he had not had such disgusting luck on the greens . |
| 15 | When you send out tell them not to put on a road block because the guy driving the truck is a real ‘ Harvey Wallbanger ’ and he 'll go straight through a patrol car . ’ |
| 16 | He 'll go anywhere at the ring of a phone , and he spends much time on the road . |
| 17 | He 'll sit there on the floor with them and play with the magnets . |
| 18 | He 'll sit there by the fire for a long time , with scotch bottle , with alerted chemistry . |
| 19 | Oh , and tell him that Moila 's too small for the ferry to dock , so he 'll come ashore in a boat . |
| 20 | He 'll get there in the end but we ca n't wait . |
| 21 | He 'll steer clear of the lengthy and costly three-month programmes , preferring the therapy of a short three-day course where his people can receive some stimulus on how to improve their business performance . |
| 22 | He felt that the forces that had brought him to this narrow corner of a Neapolitan street — the wish , on the one hand , to track down Elsie and now the fear , on the other , that this search would lead him to harm — these forces might hold him there , his foot on the edge of the pavement overhanging the choked and filthy gutter , in a kind of uneasy equilibrium and he might stay there for a long , long time . |
| 23 | Afterwards I wondered where he might go best in the current formation : the 3 midfielders are all attack-oriented , which Batty is n't , and Fairclough is doing okay in front of the defence . |
| 24 | By doing homage a vassal accepted that his lord had certain rights over him : he might require service and , occasionally , he might intervene directly in the government of the fief . |
| 25 | He could link both with a talent for seeing the future and the past from a sideways , yet very humanly understandable , perspective in short , bringing out the magic of travelling in the fourth dimension to the audience sitting at home . |
| 26 | I think that 's what turned him off club management — he knew what his interests were and decided he could walk away from the hassle . |
| 27 | He could walk now with a crutch , but the going would be slow , and they would spend the night in Lorpa . |
| 28 | Although studying and admiring Tchaikovsky 's methods of composition , Stravinsky felt he could break away from the stereotyped dance forms demanded by nineteenth-century balletmasters , His music was far more economical in melody and orchestral sound but his rhythmic phrasings and marked attention to newer dance forms inspired Ashton to break away from traditional class-room practices . |
| 29 | Ellin says that he could tell even as a sixteen-year-old that " here was a writer who reduced stories to their absolute essence " and , he adds , the ending of each de Maupassant story is , when you think about it , " as inevitable as doom " . |
| 30 | However , he left the next day , calling later to ask Lorna to meet him nearby with £500 cash so he could go away for a few days . |