Example sentences of "he [modal v] go " in BNC.
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| 1 | After pleading guilty to stealing $1m from his clients he may go to jail . |
| 2 | Perhaps , too , someone may lack the power to defend his rights , or he may go too far in his own defence . |
| 3 | He may go too far for his capabilities and get too tired to walk back safely . |
| 4 | If the retailer does n't make a profit , he may go out of business . |
| 5 | He is embarrassed as well as frustrated when he hears people say he may go mad again when the hot weather comes , when he has maintained his sanity for many summers . |
| 6 | Would the Chancellor reconsider that decision because , when he next goes to the Duchy of Lancaster he may go to confession and admit to the untruths that are being told by his party in party-political broadcasts ? |
| 7 | Pound 's forbearance towards Williams remains astonishing , the more when we realize that Williams 's challenge to him came when he was remarkably uncertain and at sea about his own talents and the direction in which he should go . |
| 8 | He was advised by his teacher to choose the latter and it was suggested that he should go to Oxford and read chemistry . |
| 9 | He stood uncertainly , listening , wondering if he should go any further or retreat before someone came along . |
| 10 | Maybe he should go back down through the wood . |
| 11 | Maybe he should go back , but inside him was still the lump of anger against them . |
| 12 | As the ground had dried out it was also a surprise that he should go so quickly on it and he just tired at Valentine 's second-time . |
| 13 | Mr Lewis came to a halt and for a moment seemed at a loss as to how he should go on . |
| 14 | Maybe he should go for a contract killing . |
| 15 | He was never any trouble but we used to think perhaps he should go out a bit more , ’ say Brian Gedge . |
| 16 | Conversely , a man 's wish to care for an elderly relative might conflict with the expectation that he should go out to work . |
| 17 | Then his mother had married again , to a PT Instructor who beat Luke up so badly that a court ruled he should go and live with Bart full time . |
| 18 | As for Oz , perhaps he should go back to doing the voice for Fozzy Bear . |
| 19 | Brigadier Smithson , who was apparently due to go on leave the next day , rang Southern Command and managed to arrange that he should go straight to London by train after the conference . |
| 20 | If he had to go , he should go quietly and give continued moral support to the paper . |
| 21 | He said , ‘ I expect you 've got a busy day tomorrow , ( as a hint to the guest that he should go to bed ) . |
| 22 | More likely in case he should go along the road to ease him self on Alice Mulcahy . |
| 23 | Joe began to wonder if he should go to the police . |
| 24 | When one has told a friend about a stage performance or some media utterance that one feels he should go to see , one has performed that work to the friend and partly negated his need to see the work for himself . |
| 25 | He should go back to Buttermere , go to Mary , tell her as much of the truth as she could bear and marry her . |
| 26 | He knew that it did not , and yet she continued writing to him ; continued sending her love ; continued her demands , repeated in every letter , that he should go back to see her . |
| 27 | He told himself that he should go right now and plant the explosives to bring the tunnel down , but the Doctor 's curiosity was one of his strongest features . |
| 28 | Li Yuan smiled , recognising that Tsu Ma was hinting he should go after his wife . |
| 29 | Once I waited so long and stayed so late that I gave myself away to Syl , who had called in the usual way at the front door , to be told by my mother that I was in the summer-house and he should go and bring me out and back to the drawing-room where , like normal people , we should converse . |
| 30 | I could not bear it that he should go free . |