Example sentences of "he [modal v] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A theory was evolved by a few influential educationalists that if a child is given a basic training in Laban skills then he will have the essential grounding for any future specialisation he may care to follow in gymnastics , dance or drama . |
| 2 | He may have to settle for second this time . |
| 3 | If these are totally incompatible he may have to resign of course , but then |
| 4 | His father said he must apply to return to college . |
| 5 | If the recovery is faltering he 'll clearly want to be more keen to cut interest rates , and also he 'll want to take into account the effect of any tax increases he may introduce in his budget . |
| 6 | He 'll have to go without pay and I told him there and then . |
| 7 | He 'll have to agree for Mum 's sake . ’ |
| 8 | To build up his pot , because he might have a bad month , or he might want to go on holiday . |
| 9 | He might condescend to attend at half-time if there was n't a party or a bird somewhere . |
| 10 | If Dulac 's version of the interview is to be believed , de Gaulle acknowledged the possibility that he might have to come to power after a military operation against Paris . |
| 11 | If this thing was really on , he might have to pack in smoking . |
| 12 | The Queen 's Bench held that he had offended because in the future he might wish to tender for council house construction . |
| 13 | But Andrew may be so outraged at his wife 's topless antics that he could decide to fight for custody of his children after all . |
| 14 | He 'd love to go to football matches . |
| 15 | However , with Grobbelaar approaching full fitness after his hamstring injury , and James determined to make his mark at Liverpool , Hooper knows he 'd have to impress in order to keep his place in the team . |
| 16 | However , with Grobbelaar approaching full fitness after his hamstring injury , and James determined to make his mark at Liverpool , Hooper knows he 'd have to impress in order to keep his place in the team . |
| 17 | ‘ He 'd have to stand on tiptoe , ’ Felicity said with a rare flash of humour . |
| 18 | That 's why we told Hilary he 'd have to stay for GCE year . |
| 19 | There was no doubt in my mind at the time that Ferrari wanted him and that negotiations had reached a fairly advanced point : perhaps exactly the point Mario wanted , the point where he could go to Chapman and say that he 'd like to stay at Lotus but that Chapman had to be able to match Ferrari 's money . |
| 20 | Mr Young said he has had to sell stock he would prefer to keep in order to take advantage of new opportunities . |
| 21 | He did not feel that he would want to return to university , so he decided to apply for an unclassed ‘ War Honours ’ degree — ‘ probably not worth the paper it 's written on ’ , but perhaps enough to get him started in some profession , such as colonial service or , possibly , journalism ; he rather liked the idea of becoming a parliamentary correspondent for a newspaper . |
| 22 | Athelstan agreed ; the landlord of the Piebald Horse was a one-armed , reformed sea pirate who had confidentially explained to the friar how he would love to go to church but the smell of incense always made him feel ill . |
| 23 | I replied with caution and a slightly playful evasion that I understood that he would decide that , to which he replied that naturally he would like to take into account any hopes of mine . |
| 24 | I had been horrified at his scarecrow appearance when I first saw him at the clinic , and when I met him by chance in Tala-Tala I felt so sorry for him that I asked him if he would like to come for dinner . |
| 25 | Thinking he would like to work in business , he studied industrial economics at Nottingham University , where he gained a 2.1 . |
| 26 | He did not expect that he would have to go to war over the Holy Places , but if he was called upon to do so , he thought that he could produce the men , guns and money he would need for victory . |
| 27 | He knew he would have to go in search of extra newspaper before the pains came again , but first he must rest and regain his strength after his exertions in the bathroom . |
| 28 | For example , if the plaintiff moves from rented accommodation to a house that he has bought , he would have to take into account against any extra cost the saving achieved by no longer paying rent . |
| 29 | It was also stated that he would have to remain in hospital for around a month , and would thus be unable to attend the special session of the Diet which was scheduled to end on Dec. 8 . |
| 30 | If he needed to give the object of his desire the slip , he would have to hide in steerage or the boiler room . |