Example sentences of "[subord] he [modal v] [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the kitchen was clean and the children put to bed , Beth and David would go to the sitting room , where he would sit at the circular table , head bent over documents and rent books . |
| 2 | today where he can stay at our mum 's . |
| 3 | So how could he not be far more upset than he would admit at the thought of the gap it would leave in his life and the prospect of probably never seeing his father again ? |
| 4 | ‘ This is a move which gives Eric a better chance of first-team football than he would have at Leeds . |
| 5 | They dived into the sand did n't they , so he would survive at the back of the |
| 6 | John Reid has splashed out more than £1 million to buy a new home so he can look at the famous sign . |
| 7 | In Israel , they have built an exact replica of the Rebbe 's house so he will feel at home when he is proclaimed as Messiah and brought to the Holy Land . |
| 8 | He leaned over and opened the passenger door so he could yell at me . |
| 9 | He kept a set of bags packed inside the door of Downing Street , so he could escape at the earliest opportunity to the grouse moors or trout streams . |
| 10 | Lawrence Woodward , director of Elm Farm Research Centre , a small newly formed charity set up to research and develop organic agriculture , wrote to Prince Charles asking if he would speak at the first organic food conference to be held in Cirencester in January 1983 . |
| 11 | FOR most of this year , Lee Sharpe has wondered if he would play at the top again . |
| 12 | I wondered if he would see at once that something had happened to make my need of him as great as his had been of me when he last saw me . |
| 13 | ( b ) That there is no satisfactory address for serving the summons either because he will not give an address , or it is doubtful if he will remain at the address long enough to accept service of the summons or is unable to furnish the name of anyone who would accept service on his behalf , e.g. social worker . |
| 14 | Dustin asked if he could sleep at Beck 's apartment , and if he would come and pick him up at the hall . |
| 15 | Apparently a hooded stranger with a bag of gold had asked if he could stay at her house one night . |
| 16 | It would be convenient if he could come at once . |
| 17 | To quote Kurt Vonnegut in Bluebeard : ‘ In the movies back then , just about any big-nosed person whose ancestors came from the shores of the Mediterranean or the Near East , if he could act at little , could play a rampaging Sioux or whatever . |
| 18 | No , he was n't on drugs before cos he used to live at Valley . |
| 19 | Now Henry lives near Henley , and while he would sneer at the Hooray Henries crowding that town 's regatta ( in true , no-frills , Aussie style ) , he 's become quite a showman himself . |
| 20 | Ever since he could think at all he had realised that the class which exploited the worker in every country would fight to the last ditch for the sake of keeping the worker where he was and where he had been all his life . |
| 21 | As the hon. Gentleman obviously takes econometric models to bed with him , I wonder whether he would look at the implications of Liberal Democrat policy on one of the small industries to which his party is committed — the armed forces . |
| 22 | While the patient is suffering the frustrations and discomforts of being ill , you are likely to be worried about the long-term prospects of his recovery , how long it might take , or indeed whether he will recover at all . |
| 23 | But first he has to set the number co-ordinates on his Scope before he can fire at any object . |
| 24 | He marched out of the barracks to make his way to the station — he wondered how long it would be before he could walk at a normal pace . |
| 25 | ‘ Ah — ’ David began , but , before he could look at them , Sister had come in and picked them up . |
| 26 | He had even suppressed , as he could do at will , the brightness of his amber eyes . |
| 27 | Would Sir Alexander Ramsay , of his goodness and in his leal duty to the King 's Grace and his Regent , come to Lochmaben Castle in Annandale at his earliest convenience , bringing with him such armed and horsed supporters as he could raise at short notice ? |
| 28 | Though he might jibe at the London Group , his own work was sufficiently acceptable to this conservative exhibiting society for him to be elected a member in 1949 , the same year that he was represented in ‘ The Art of the Book Jacket ’ which , after being shown at the Victoria and Albert Museum , went on tour at home and abroad . |