Example sentences of "he [modal v] [adv] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the shaman is exposed to the insidious effects of the fungus for too long he may eventually turn into a giant shaman mushroom . |
| 2 | He may longer sting like a bee but Ali 's still as light on his feet as a butterfly … and the memories are going strong . |
| 3 | Any actuarial calculation must therefore be discounted to allow for the chance that he may only live for a shorter period . |
| 4 | MODERATE : Treasury spokesman Alan Beith has had a high profile , though he must occasionally feel like a comma in the economy debate between Mr Lamont and Mr Smith . |
| 5 | That is the kind of exploit he might well claim after a drink or two , expecting his audience first to gasp , then to roar with laughter . |
| 6 | Fossils fascinate him too , and he says that he might even look to a career in palaeontology . |
| 7 | Writing from his prison cell in the Republic where he is serving 10 years for armed robbery , McGlinchey claimed he could easily tap into a central databank of RUC files . |
| 8 | The materials manager does not purchase all the material he could possibly need in a given period . |
| 9 | the materials manager does not purchase all the material he could possibly need in a given period . |
| 10 | His mother agreed that he could always play with a particular set of toys immediately after getting dressed , provided he threw no tantrums . |
| 11 | He was tall and strong and beautiful but he could never think like a man or a king . |
| 12 | Martin Cruz Smith has an intriguing hero to play with ; if he could only Strive For a Decisive Upswing in Plot Design , his mastery of the chilly thriller would be complete . |
| 13 | Despite the fact that Bill was in his mid-fifties and had a chronic heart condition , which meant he could only play for a maximum of five minutes a match , it was a good move on Fred 's part as the pub owned the cricket pitch at the rear and naturally , as captain , Bill felt obliged to hand it over to the club , and so ‘ The Tip ’ was born . |
| 14 | Here he was , a friar , a priest , a man sworn to chastity , feeling twinges of jealousy about someone he could only claim as a friend . |
| 15 | At the same time great emphasis was placed on rewarding Gary for pro-social behaviour obedience , co-operation — with tokens which he could then exchange for a privilege ( such as staying up late ) or a treat ( such as a favourite play activity with his parents ) . |
| 16 | He despised the ease with which he could now engage in a life beyond the mightiest exertions of the man he had been born to be . |
| 17 | He 'd even sit at a machine in the factory sewing patchwork cushions with all the remnants . |
| 18 | He 's not a proper father : he 'd rather talk to a foreigner than come and find his own son . |
| 19 | Denmark 's a prison and he 'd rather live in a nutshell ; some shadow-play about the nature of ambition , which never got down to cases , and finally one direct question which might have led somewhere , and led in fact to his illuminating claim to tell a hawk from a handsaw . |
| 20 | He vowed there and then he 'd never return to a tournament like that ; he felt that a man of his stature should n't be playing in what was , after all , a second-rate event while the Masters was on . |
| 21 | He 'd never run as a youngster ; cycling was his sport , then a bit of motorcycling after his service in the RAF . |
| 22 | He 'd only go for a couple of hours to his London office . |
| 23 | Kenny had a ‘ horses-for-courses ’ policy and he 'd sometimes switch to a five-man defence and leave out me or Peter Beardsley . |
| 24 | So seriously analytical was Chapman 's mind that he would rarely comment on a match until several days later , after he had studied every move . |
| 25 | His neat , Astaire-like side-step to the road where he would rather die under a shining new Merc than to have to go too close to a cripple . |
| 26 | God willing , he would soon go on a final long journey to another home , his real home , in Eretz . |
| 27 | He would soon argue for a Whitmanesque , democratic art , drawn from the people and distributed to them in popular editions , accessible to all and finding its way into ‘ workmen 's houses and farms ’ . |
| 28 | He would also learn about a series of problems , the main one of which is the unfair subsidies to ship building companies in the European Community which are handicapping the British ship building industry in terms of merchant shipping orders . |
| 29 | But he would also say as a race it was nothing special : as a race it was ‘ out of all proportion to the fame and fortune ’ and needed ‘ no more ability than any other place ’ . |
| 30 | We thought he would just get like a , a community service |