Example sentences of "he [modal v] [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | " He envisages any show as a complete theatrical entity-staging , set design , choreography ; he 'll map out the whole show , then monitor it bar by bar — police it . |
| 32 | Chapman predicts : ‘ He 'll pick up a little prize before the end of the year . |
| 33 | If , for instance , a doctor prescribes sleeping tablets for occasional use only , he might strike out the NP and put ‘ sleeping tablets ’ in the NP box . |
| 34 | He swept his hat from the dresser and crushed it on his head and went outside as if he might break down the doors in his way . |
| 35 | He could exhibit such a stolidity in this regard that the Captain more than once suggested that he might drop down the order , ‘ to add ballast to the middle ’ . |
| 36 | He never developed a major following there — even , as far as can be seen , in the early 1470s when there was still a possibility that he might take on a political role . |
| 37 | He never developed a major following there — even , as far as can be seen , in the early 1470s when there was still a possibility that he might take on a political role . |
| 38 | He might pick up a truth or two perhaps from servants or villagers of the Old Baron 's generation . ’ |
| 39 | He might cut out the middle man you see . |
| 40 | We were approaching the Rover works at Cowley when Michael declared that he felt as if he could pull back the steering column and take off . |
| 41 | ‘ Anyway , ’ said Amiss , ‘ from what you say , it 's not as if he could bring in the police and have the club cleansed of sin . |
| 42 | Moreover , the President believed that the time had come to use the great power of the USA not only to end the war but to ensure , through a place at the Peace Conference , that he could bring about a " just peace " . |
| 43 | Like animals , they are great levellers — not remotely impressed by a string of titles — and he always found he could build up a good rapport with them . |
| 44 | He could build up a knowledge of who he was , piece by piece . |
| 45 | He could overrule , as it were , by sending " public " preachers , for example to preach a crusade and , most important , he could build up the power of the monasteries by granting or confirming exemption from the diocesan . |
| 46 | One of the things he had not envisaged was how long it would take before he could send out the first invoice . |
| 47 | Unlikely as it was that Richard Branson would ever have quite the impact on teenage sensibilities of Duran Duran , the days he could walk down a busy London street totally unrecognised were surely numbered . |
| 48 | Square on his feet , Jos looked as though he could hold off a steamroller . |
| 49 | And he could hold out no hope of any financial assistance . |
| 50 | He still feels he could eke out a result without him . |
| 51 | Or he could rent out the property … |
| 52 | Call J. J. Gerrard direct and see if he could set up a spot on Briant for tonight 's edition ? |
| 53 | As early as 1879 , the union secretary was reporting in consternation : " so highly are they prized that one master who employs 20 girls vauntingly said that with his girls and the … foreman , he could carry on the work of his establishment , dispensing with journeymen ! " |
| 54 | Truman 's new secretary of state , James F. Byrnes , was at first serenely confident that he could carry on the Roosevelt approach to Stalin with the American nuclear monopoly in reserve in his " hip pocket " , and with no automatic supporting role for the British . |
| 55 | When begged to return , he relented only on condition he could carry out a remarkable experiment : the so-called oprichnina , Ivan designated something like one-third of the country , carved out of scattered towns and provinces , as his personal domain , and set up a new administration to subject it to his personal will . |
| 56 | Maybe he could settle down a bit now , quit high school , travel — and write . |
| 57 | The Duke did all he could to track down the miscreants , using his great wealth to bribe informers . |
| 58 | Charles had done all he could to slow down the retreat , issuing orders that ‘ not so much as a cannonball ’ was to be left behind — an instruction literally , and profitably , followed by the Glengarry clan who , when the carts transporting ammunition up Shap Fell , between Kendal and Penrith , broke down , carried it up in their plaids , at sixpence [ 2. 5p ] per cannonball . |
| 59 | But as his eyes grew accustomed to it he could make out a hand protruding from the open lounge doorway . |
| 60 | The Doctor followed the narrow road down through a small valley , before climbing back up towards a bare hilltop where he could make out a number of tiny wooden crosses , like a forest of lifeless bonsai trees . |