Example sentences of "he [vb mod] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , surely someone like him could get hold of condoms if that 's what he wanted . ’ |
| 2 | In determining whether the defendants ought to be held liable under the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher , the learned judge considered that he ought to pay regard to ( i ) the quantities of combustible materials which the defendants brought onto the land ; ( ii ) the way in which they stored them ; and ( iii ) the character of the neighbourhood . |
| 3 | If the retailer wants to find out about sales figures , for example , he may present information as a bar chart . |
| 4 | The student may seek escape in passivity and make only perfunctory efforts to learn the target language ; or he may express antagonism by making no effort to adopt the correct pronunciation or by a deliberate use of native language patterns in the target language . |
| 5 | In one case Julian discusses a manumission ‘ let Pamphilus be free , so that he may give account to my sons ’ ( Pamphilus liber esto , ita ut filiis meis rationem reddat ) . |
| 6 | Under section 245A , where copies of the annual accounts have been sent out , laid , or delivered to the Registrar and it appears to the Secretary of State that there is or may be a question whether they comply with the Act he may give notice to the directors indicating the respects in which it appears to him that the question may arise and specifying a period of not less than one month for the directors to give him explanations or prepare revised accounts . |
| 7 | The great warrior Arjuna has battlefield doubts whether he may make war on his own kin , and his mentor Krishna tells him victory and defeat are the same , and he must fight without desire . |
| 8 | That at his will he may do danger with . |
| 9 | That as his will he may do danger with . ’ |
| 10 | Crown him that/And then I grant we put a sting in him/That at his will he may do danger with |
| 11 | He may take office during a period of crisis when the American people are willing to suspend their paranoia about leadership . |
| 12 | When the patient restarts driving , he may gain confidence by having lessons through one of the major driving schools , such as the British School of Motoring ( BSM ) , which have specialist instructors for people with physical handicaps who are learning or relearning driving . |
| 13 | If he survived the war and should ever read these words , I hope he may resume contact after nearly fifty years . |
| 14 | In doing so , he may lose sight of the fact that conversational discourse is dynamic , and that his data represents a process . |
| 15 | His son has gone off to London , and he worries that he may lose touch with him . |
| 16 | It is better for the patient to use a shallow cup rather than a deeper mug , partly to prevent an excessive fluid intake , and partly because he may have difficulty in judging the depth of a mug and so may tend to spill his drink . |
| 17 | He may have knowledge of them . |
| 18 | Boswell argues back that ‘ A man , as a machine , may have agreeable sensations ; for instance he may have pleasure in music . ’ |
| 19 | If the user decides to reject the SPR , he may transfer responsibility for the SPR onto another user . |
| 20 | If Campese misses the Wales Test at Cardiff Arms Park on November 22 , he may find consolation in the ad men who drew up the match posters being left with more egg on their faces than those who dreamed up George Bush 's ‘ four more years ’ slogan . |
| 21 | He he may say he may say head of creative creative head of create the creative department or head of erm . |
| 22 | If a painter decorates his own house , nobody would argue that he should pay tax on the non-existent earnings ; but what if he decorates a friend 's house in return for some help with fixing his car ? |
| 23 | For a moment Zen wondered whether he should tell Bartocci about the photocopy of Ruggiero 's letter . |
| 24 | ‘ even if Mr. Shephard had exercised some dominating influence over her , there is no evidence to show that the bank knew that he would or might bring such influence to bear , or that they used Mr. Shephard in order that he should exert pressure on his wife … |
| 25 | As John Major contemplates on the way to Washington whether he should give support to the US plan , he should bear the following in mind . |
| 26 | Ernest Saunders was told that he should leave gaol after serving 10 months of a five-year sentence because he was a victim of senile dementia , yet now he is running his own business . |
| 27 | If the hon. Gentleman is concerned about the position of his party in Scotland , he should have regard to the fact that , at the 1987 general election , the city of Glasgow returned 11 Labour Members of Parliament . |
| 28 | Maybe he should have dinner with Sandy Lyle . ’ |
| 29 | It was decided that before going up to Oxford , which in fact he never did , he should spend time with a German family in Mecklenburg and three months studying at the university in Jena , where he attended lectures on philosophy and political economy and made many close friends among German Jews . |
| 30 | He should foresee harm to himself , although there is no risk of harm to anyone else . |