Example sentences of "[noun pl] he [modal v] [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his poetry , Wordsworth uses the language of faith years before his ‘ prose mind ’ can accept Christian doctrine ; this is why his ‘ conversion ’ is impossible to date , and why there is so much divergence between the poetic and prose statements he may make at any stage in his progress . |
| 2 | Her father feared for her reason , and left the boat telling to his fellow fishermen he would remain at home that day . |
| 3 | In the event , Chapman did , having also , Mario reports , made sure that Mario understood the kinds of problems he might encounter at Ferrari . |
| 4 | He had an open mind and said there were pluses and minuses and for it , I think if it was pointed out in future years , that an extra mil one point four million pounds could be available for school budgets he would look at it perhaps a little differently . |
| 5 | Each night when we 'd finished our various tasks he would look at our hands by the light of a candle and probe with a needle for splinters . |
| 6 | With all these madmen he 'll feel at home . ’ |
| 7 | As an advocate of the STV has observed , if an MP is " forced by the system to spend his working hours worrying about the number of first-preference votes he will get at the next election , and many of his sleeping hours dreaming about them , he or she will work harder than ever for constituents ' " |