Example sentences of "[subord] he may [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I compared myself to a dog who has got hold of a large piece of meat , and runs away with it to a corner , where he may devour it in peace , without any fear of others taking it from him . ’ |
| 2 | When John Nobles , a kersey clothier in the West Riding parish of Kirkburton , made his will in 1715 he directed his supervisors to ‘ chuse such a master for my son where he may learn both the clothier trade and husbandry ’ when he reached the age of 14 . |
| 3 | Commissioned in the 4th Regiment of Foot , he fought at the battle of the Boyne in 1690 and then served in the Netherlands , where he may have gained experience of hydraulic engineering . |
| 4 | Among the property Margaret inherited was ‘ the house with the ways , walks , etc. ’ in the parish of St Andrew 's , Holborn , which Berthelet had reserved to his own use , and where he may have lived during his retirement . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , although he may evade these basic criticisms of classical liberalism , Hayek , by rooting his liberal theory in an evolutionary framework , encounters a different problem . |
| 6 | At paragraph 1497 , it is stated that in larceny the owner of the thing stolen has no intention to part with his property therein to the person taking it , although he may intend to part with the possession ; in false pretences the owner does intend to part with his property in the money or chattel , but it is obtained from him by fraud . |
| 7 | But as he proved at Knowsley Road on Sunday , although he may have descended into relative obscurity he still possesses exceptional powers of motivation , with his Dewsbury side producing the most impressive performance of the Regal Trophy so far . |
| 8 | Although he may have underestimated the depth of the changes , his confidence reflected a widespread fundamental optimism among social scientists with respect to the reform of working-class youth . |
| 9 | When he came to the College , Coleman was presumably almost totally ignorant of veterinary matters ( although he may have been studying the subject during the ‘ interregnum ’ ) . |
| 10 | Although he may have the option of ignoring them , possibly at some cost to himself , he can not manipulate these rules and conditions in the same way that he can those within his own sphere of competence . |
| 11 | He and his men had killed three Germans in this house when he burst into a back room and was probably killed by a fourth German hiding there , although he may have been hit from across the street . |
| 12 | ‘ being the driver ’ Driver means the person who takes the motor vehicle on the road and he continues to be the driver until the journey is finished , although he may have stopped and switched the engine off some minutes before : Jones v Prothero [ 1952 ] 1 All ER 434 . |
| 13 | Mr. Gardiner argued that Walton J. erred in a number of respects although he may have reached the right answer by the wrong route . |
| 14 | Again , new users should ask the LIFESPAN Manager in the first instance about the charge codes , although he may have allocated responsibility for groups of codes to project leaders . |
| 15 | His prohibition of the sale of Christians to the heathen , for example , was drawn from an English source , although he may have known of Henry II 's identical measure in Germany in 1006 . |
| 16 | Drawn into the complex political world of the 490s he showed an interest in the arianism of his fellow monarchs , as well as in the catholicism of Chlothild , and some members of his court were actually baptized as arians ; he himself , although he may have already been converted to Christianity , did not commit himself firmly either to catholicism or arianism , although he certainly showed an interest in the views of the heretics . |
| 17 | A Royal Ulster Constabulary spokesman said : ‘ Although he may have been coming to the end of his racing career , he was potentially valuable for stud purposes . ’ |
| 18 | There is nothing a five-year-old likes better than being read to , although he may spend considerable time looking at books himself and may even pretend to read . |
| 19 | well , well thank Mr very much , if you , if you could , I can accommodate Mr at any reasonable time tomorrow , erm , but although he may say he 's only got , he only wants to rest for a quarter of an hour d'your , as you gather from the interchange from the bench , that 's er , that will be the very minimum and I may well have questions to ask him , although I hope I 'd asked most of them to Mr , so , erm , but I 'm , I 'm I think for everybody 's convenience it , erm , unless he 's got a specific time he could deal with , we either start say at eleven thirty , when Mr can be here or at two , erm , but if he 's got some other clever idea I 'm perfectly prepared to entertain him , but er we ca n't leave this hanging around , I 've got ta write this and whichever way it goes we 've got ta look at it again , er and although I suppose I 'm not entirely unheard of and I disappear to the court of appeal next term it 's gon na make things extremely awkward to try and arrange anything else next term , cos I 've got two other judges to bear in mind as well as myself |
| 20 | ‘ But although he may seem quite well he 's still to be handled with care . |
| 21 | Although he may receive more help in the first few months than the widow usually does , he may find that his sudden change in life-style is a considerable shock . |
| 22 | Nor is it suggested that the smallholder should revert to primitive subsistence living , although he may need to give up some of the consumer society 's more expensive luxuries . |
| 23 | If the general practitioner pronounces the patient fit enough , he may be able to start driving a car again , although he may need to retake a driving test if he has not been able to drive for several months . |
| 24 | Mm , apparently the guy that was driving it had overalls on , so he may have been a mechanic delivering it to somewhere or test driving it over there |
| 25 | He 's he 's shot himself in the foot in one sense , because he does n't know what we 've said already , so he may come and say exactly the same thing that we 've been saying , in which case we will cheer and you will boo . |
| 26 | Erm , members who are also members of the Business Grants Panel will recall that at the December meeting we agreed to grant to a company so he may relocate into the area creating twenty seven jobs , and Friday we learnt that relocation 's to go ahead to Telford . |
| 27 | He may need to do all this , and to ventilate his fears of a future without her ; but he has probably been told since he was three years old that ‘ boys do n't cry ’ , and that men must always show courage and maintain the stiff upper lip , so he may deny himself the relief of lowering his defences and ‘ letting go ’ which society expects the widow to do quite naturally . |
| 28 | Even in a centrally heated home , the patient may still feel the cold , so he may need to be dressed warmly , and wear thermal socks . |
| 29 | You may find the patient has little interest in food , so he may need encouraging to eat a little at a time . |
| 30 | Mike Phelan looked like he may have discovered a passage into the second round with a fierce drive which spun off a defender with the goalkeeper stranded . |