Example sentences of "he [modal v] [adv] [vb infin] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the purpose of seeing whether his suspicions are well-founded , he may … stop any person carrying goods which he suspects to have been stolen , he may also examine the person and detain him . |
| 2 | He may also face the prospect of long-term hardship , if he can not return to work at all . |
| 3 | ‘ He may well feel the need to scare me off . |
| 4 | Gooch has been known to carry a long face on his sleeve and he may well appreciate the strength of Gatting . |
| 5 | He may even have the town named after him . |
| 6 | He may even live the kind of life he does not really like simply because he feels that because everyone else is so much wiser than he is they must know best about what is right for him . |
| 7 | Should the wielder attack and fail to score a hit , he may immediately re-roll the attack again , giving him a second chance to hit . |
| 8 | Heseltine may not prove as co-operative as his DTI forebears and , while he may not earn the adulation of predators such as Hanson , he will increasingly enjoy the appreciation of potential targets , such as ICI , Trafalgar House and Vickers . |
| 9 | Garrison Savannah who almost won the National two years ago appears to have returned to his old form if you take his Gold Cup run on board for he was always in touch before blundering and losing his chance late in the race , but he may not stay the trip as happened two years ago when he was beaten by Seagram . |
| 10 | But he may not have the power to overrule the precedents ; in any case , reasons of strategy argue against this . |
| 11 | Someone other than the trustee or his nominee may be elected chairman , but if the trustee is the chairman , he may not adjourn the meeting without the consent of at least half , in value , of those present ( in person or by proxy ) and entitled vote ( r 6.129(3) ) . |
| 12 | Then er even one percent of nuclear weaponry that er could be used is a danger to world congregation and I fear very much er that unless there is some kind of a proper cast iron guarantee er with the successor to the Soviet Union er there 's going to be much er trouble especially if er there is an ethnic violence er erupting on the borders and again er Boris Yeltsin has said that er , er he is going to want to control er the position on the borders , well he may not get the agreement that he seeks , er one hopes that he will , but he , he may not . |
| 13 | He may not take the law into his own hands . |
| 14 | He may never appreciate the VIP treatment he is getting . |
| 15 | This is better for the male , too , and he may actually inform the female in some way that she is a secondary female , but as yet we do not know how . |
| 16 | In the same way he may only despatch the liquor to the customer outwith permitted hours . |
| 17 | The child knows that he may only win the object or activity back by compliance . |
| 18 | The formalities were gone through — including , in this case , the obtaining of a marriage licence ; the bachelor of St Ethelburga 's parish made an allegation that he knew of no lawful impediment why he should not marry the girl from St Dunstan 's in the West , and it was there that they became man and wife on 21 June 1799 . |
| 19 | Therefore , if an employer wants to sue on the basis of a continuing obligation which lasts after determination and requires a remedy other than damages , he should not accept the repudiation but treat the contract as if alive . |
| 20 | But , determined that he should n't have the satisfaction of seeing her vexation , she said drily , ‘ Do n't mention it ; I 'm only glad it was n't rush-hour . ’ |
| 21 | He must not diminish the capital value of the land by the commission of acts called ‘ waste ’ , such as cutting timber or opening mines . |
| 22 | He must not create the impression that recognition will stop the killing . |
| 23 | But while the certificate-holder may take the order outwith permitted hours , he must not complete the sale outwith permitted hours , by accepting payment , or handing the liquor to the customer , or delivering the liquor to the customer 's house . |
| 24 | He must not address the defendant in terms which suggest that the sample must be of one kind rather than the other unless and until the two possibilities have been explained to the defendant and a fair opportunity given to him to say , if he wishes , which he would prefer to give and why . |
| 25 | But he must not deny the statute . |
| 26 | Thus Vaughan is assuming a certain amount of shared knowledge on the part of the reader ; but because we can not , naturally , see things from the perspective of his origo , he must also assist the reader in the assignment of indexical or deictic meanings . |
| 27 | Someone might say : it is a principle of personal morality that if someone shares in the gains of another 's action he must also share the responsibility for wrongs that other person does . |
| 28 | Assuming that a president can overcome these difficulties sufficiently to establish some discipline within the executive branch , he must also obtain the agreement of congress to his legislative proposals . |
| 29 | ‘ A challenge ? ’ she husked painfully , her eyes so wide she thought he must surely read the anguish in them . |
| 30 | Even if A has the power of arrest , he must ordinarily inform the person arrested that he is being arrested and the reason for it , i. e. the act for which arrest is made : Christie v. Leachinsky [ facts ] . |