Example sentences of "[pron] he must [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He changes slowly from messing Lennie around and playing stupid jokes on him , to treating Lennie as a friend , a companion , but someone he must protect from his own strength and stupidity . |
| 2 | He drew in deep , deep breaths of air ; then , almost quietly now , he told himself he must find Martin . |
| 3 | It adds that a tender and documents given by LCH to a buying member are deemed to comply with the contract terms unless the buyer notifies LCH to the contrary by 10 am the next day , in default of which he must pay for them . |
| 4 | His full support for the anti-Saddam coalition has not been universally popular : hence his latest diplomatic effort , which he must hope will still redound to his credit and give the Soviet Union a useful base on which to build a role in the post-war Middle East . |
| 5 | Its teaching supplies the data which he must gather and interpret scientifically by tracing the general principles running through it and underlying the particular propositions it contains . |
| 6 | To his right a shorter flight of steps gave access to an equally dark corridor along which he must walk to reach his bedroom . |
| 7 | It was that through which he must pass next . |
| 8 | The prosecutor may direct policemen to carry out inquiries and interview witnesses , but he can not deputise them to interrogate the suspect , a task which he must perform himself . |
| 9 | As a moral imperative , far from being incommensurable with his previous considerations , it merely adds others similar in kind ; he now has to see things from his parents ' viewpoint as well as his own , consider their health and resources , ask himself how much they have done to arouse his gratitude or his rancour , whether his staying would really do them any good , whether he can get on with them without quarrelling , and add all this to the information which he must assimilate before he lets the needle of his internal compass finally settle in the direction of Bali or of home . |
| 10 | For the prose artist the world is full of other people 's words , among which he must orient himself , and whose speech characteristics he must be able to perceive with a very keen ear . |
| 11 | He had expected to have to batter his way laboriously through the months that had separated them , as through the stockade of a castle into which he must break by force of arms . |
| 12 | The Ibrox side are resigned to being without the Englishman for the European Cup showdown with Marseille on 7 April because of the automatic one-match ban which he must serve after his sending off against Brugge on Wednesday night . |
| 13 | The urchin simply said he had a message which he must give only to you . ’ |
| 14 | But he 's still furious at the conditions laid down by the Department of Environment which he must agree to before the gypsies can stay . |
| 15 | Man must learn to distinguish between those things which are given and which he must accept as part of his creatureliness , and those conditions which , exercising his responsibility towards creation , he must seek to change . |
| 16 | Every human being has duties to others which he must accept . |
| 17 | After eating the piece of chicken dipped in cumin and saffron which he must have liked , he asked me where I came from . |
| 18 | Later , confronted with the ambiguously dominating Attwater who kings it over the natives on his atoll , one of them ‘ broke into a piece of the chorus of a comic song which he must have heard twenty years before in London : meaningless gibberish that , in that hour and place ’ , seemed hateful as a blasphemy : ‘ Hikey , pikey , crikey , fikey , chillinga — wallaba dory . ’ |
| 19 | Lionel Luyt told me that it was only when he reached Europe a few years later that he realized how far ahead of his South African contemporaries John had been , doing things which he must have invented for himself because he had not had the chance to see them put into practice by others . |
| 20 | He wrote a poem about his friend Francis Thompson , and in it there are many echoes of his own sad youth in which he must have wondered often if his mind would flower too late for good . |
| 21 | On top of the dashboard was a poem called Martin Fierro and a Spanish dictionary lying with its spine up , to which he must have been referring as he waited . |
| 22 | The physical contact which He must have had with them when reclining at table ( compare John 13:25 ) and which He obviously never dreamed of disallowing ( Luke 7:38 , 39 ) must have made them feel clean and acceptable ’ ( Nolan 1976:39 ) . |
| 23 | Like the politics of the miners which seamed through the talk of his brothers , never as vivid as the ‘ stories ’ but always there , those early films provided him with examples of acting which he must have absorbed willy-nilly . |
| 24 | There is a sundial over the door , dated 1751 , and inscribed with the reminder ‘ Time Passeth ’ — a concept which surely impressed the young Tennyson and which he must have mused upon a length as a boy . |
| 25 | However , in the House of Lords Lord Kilbrandon expressed grave doubts about the wisdom of the ‘ mere witness ’ rule : ‘ Why should A be bound to disclose to B the information which he must have before he can sue C if , and only if , B could , if he wishes , also have sued A , although he has no intention of so doing ? |
| 26 | Although there is no direct evidence on the subject of Richard 's upbringing and education — we do not even know the names of his tutors as we do in his father 's case — it is none the less possible , by using romances and treatises , to reconstruct the type of education which he must have undergone . |
| 27 | Henry rejected these terms and made a counter-proposal , that Alice should marry John , which he must have known would be unacceptable . |
| 28 | He , too , suffered from an occasional enlightening vision which came to him from the dim past and which he must have suppressed at the time … |
| 29 | In some handwritten notes , which he must have used as the basis for a talk , he urges : ‘ It is all here in London — a wonderful city . |
| 30 | There remained the peculiar business of the poetry book , which he must have had ready to puzzle me . |