Example sentences of "he [modal v] [vb infin] a [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Lawrie said the recommendation that he should pay a sum to the council to be fixed by the Scottish Secretary is unreasonable . |
| 2 | Recommended remedy : He should see a counsellor to ‘ talk through how he 's feeling ’ , or try to contact Relate . |
| 3 | If he makes such a report , he must send a copy to the Audit Commission . |
| 4 | Tethlis insisted that they push on but first , drawn by some irresistible influence , he must make a pilgrimage to the Altar of Khaine . |
| 5 | If I know him , he 'll make a detour to Bill 's to talk snooker . |
| 6 | Jackie goes upstairs to phone her husband at work , so that he might make a trip to the shops before visiting hour . |
| 7 | And then he 'd buy a bit so that he could send a bit to the London market — not in a very big way but enough to utilize all the money he had to do what he was doing . |
| 8 | He found that he could pay a compliment to Charles Raven , from whom he was so sadly sundered in spirit , for his book on Religion and Science . |
| 9 | Coffin was already beginning to wonder if he could fit a face to the type of killer he had imagined . |
| 10 | They said of Dr Barnard that from fragments so minuscule as almost to deceive a magnifying glass he could reconstitute a bomb to the point of identifying the factory that made its components and the man who assembled it . |
| 11 | Of course , this group at Ephesus must have heard something about the Holy Spirit if they listened at all attentively to John the Baptist , but they did not realise that the promised Spirit was available for them ; that he could make a difference to their lives . |
| 12 | A Dublin theatre manager called Daly made a bet back in 1791 that he could add a word to the language in one night . |
| 13 | The wide chest , the neck like a tree-trunk , the surprisingly small head under its wild thatch of black hair looking like a tomato on a coffin … he could put a name to the creeping figure , and that name was Hrun the Barbarian . |
| 14 | He had not seen her face , which she kept covered with a scarf , but he thought he could put a name to her . |
| 15 | ‘ If he 'd give a free-kick to us the Blackburn crowd would n't have complained . |
| 16 | That the killer knew he 'd find a razor to hand ? ’ |
| 17 | Once Paul realised what was going on he 'd put a stop to it . |
| 18 | but they 'd got some people coming and were very relieved when he said he 'd get a minicab to Reading . |
| 19 | Rosenthal is a national hero in Israel and at 29 may be tempted by the thought of a permanent return home even though he would prefer a move to France or Spain . |
| 20 | The Interior Minister , Gen. Victor Malca Villanueva announced on July 12 that he would present a proposal to the Congress on July 15 for the " total restructuring of the national police force " owing to " enormous corruption within its ranks " . |
| 21 | He gave out that he would hold a great meeting and that at that meeting he would give a present to every animal and bird , to make each one different from the rest And all the creatures set out to go to the meeting-place . |
| 22 | Lloyd George made a stand on the issue of a plebiscite for Upper Silesia , saying that he would no more give the place to the Poles than he would give a clock to a monkey . |
| 23 | I asked if he would swear a statement to this effect if it were necessary . |
| 24 | Crosby tried to land Porter on loan earlier in the season and the 26-year-old — transfer-listed this week — said he would welcome a return to his home-town club . |
| 25 | In 1917 , after the bombing of Funchal by the Germans , a large procession of people from all over the island walked to Monte to pray for peace , and the local priest promised in his prayers that , if peace came , he would erect a monument to Our Lady of Monte . |
| 26 | Miyazawa had earlier tried to appease right-wing nationalist sentiment by announcing on Aug. 9 that , in a reversal of his previously stated position , he would make a visit to the Yasukuni shrine , Japan 's most venerated memorial to Japan 's war dead , particularly those killed in the Pacific War . |
| 27 | Ideally , said Mr Edwards , he would like a consultant to be on duty full-time in the labour ward but because of financial constraints that was impossible . |
| 28 | So Mr Burgreen , doing all that he could , said he would add a civilian to his internal review board . |
| 29 | Stubbornness was an early characteristic , as was the way he would call a halt to any admonishment laid down by Mud . |
| 30 | ‘ He would have a key to the school , would he ? ’ |