Example sentences of "he [modal v] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it fails , he may as a last resort fling his band of ‘ patriotic ’ assassins into general action . |
| 2 | Further , he might by the same instrument grant a present estate , say for life , to A , followed by an estate for life or in tail to B , and , if he wished , as many further particular estates ( for life or in tail ) to other persons successively as he pleased , ending up , if he thought fit , with an estate in fee simple to some person named . |
| 3 | Accept her cold rebuffs without anger or impatience ; be there for her as best he might in the fond hope that this dreary rain must cease , that Spring must come again , and she might wake one day to that glorious span of light across the water-meadows . |
| 4 | He told Nikos and Georgiades as much as he could about the current political log-jam , leaving out the Patros bit . |
| 5 | In 1920 , for example , the notoriously rotund producer G. B. Samuelson made a trip to Universal Studios , where he produced six pictures to learn what he could about the American way of doing things . |
| 6 | Finally , Lear resigned himself to Gould 's impenetrable isolation , and , in a letter written in 1863 , came as close as he could to an objective description of his former employer and erstwhile friend : ‘ A more singularly offensive mannered man than G. hardly can be : but the queer fellow means well , tho 's more of an Egotist than can be described . ’ |
| 7 | A protesting Maltote was roused and ordered to ride as fast as he could to the royal camp outside Bedford . |
| 8 | They would shake their empty hands over a barrel lined with tinfoil , from which he could at a later date draw out benison . |
| 9 | Bossard was sentenced to 21 years ' imprisonment and once again it seems that the Russians were willing to sacrifice an agent , probably because Bossard had given them all the details he could of the American rocket-guidance systems , in order to enhance the credibility of Top Hat so that he could continue peddling disinformation . |
| 10 | He moved as quietly as he could towards the connecting door , grasped the handle and with a single movement flung the door open . |
| 11 | ‘ I will go up to the roof , just remember though to tell them to send a ladder up there ’ said Ralph ‘ Take the child with you and hurry ’ And with that Carter ran as fast as he could through the dark air with the lady and child and before long he was out Ralph 's sight . |
| 12 | So he lay hunched on the floor of the saloon and breathed as best he could through the thick hood . |
| 13 | He had greased himself in oil and he had cooked and broiled and yearned for the magic hours of noon and six when he could down a life-saving tumbler of gin and lime . |
| 14 | He was a good-looking man with his jet-black hair and intimidating jawline , but she had encountered any number far more handsome , yet none had stirred her the way he could with a single glance from those incredible eyes . |
| 15 | Carson stayed close to the walls and trod as delicately as he could on the bare boards . |
| 16 | When she came with the tray he would slip downstairs and steal what he could from the open shelves in the pantry . |
| 17 | He had learnt as much as he could from the silly young woman teacher . |
| 18 | He rolled it between two fingers and tapped it on a thumbnail and generally fondled it as I knew he would for a good five minutes before lighting it . |
| 19 | However , he will always know that his performance on a simulator is being assessed and , except for the business of risks , he may well take more care than he would in a real plant . |
| 20 | If Wilko decides he needs greater width ( as he will in a 5/3/2 formation ) then Kelly could very well be Right midfield . |
| 21 | Walberg , Hose and Raster ( 1978 ) showed the significant relationship between LOR and proficiency in English with Japanese children in the USA , but also point out that the rate of learning slows down very quickly over time , so that in the first two months the child learns as much as he will in the next five months , the next year and so on . |
| 22 | ( b ) As chairman of the cabinet , he can to a large extent determine the nature of discussions within cabinet . |
| 23 | Mikhail Gorbachev has been under increasing pressure at home , especially in the Soviet army , to salvage what he can of the old Soviet-Iraqi friendship . |
| 24 | you have erm and he will also impart as much of his knowledge as he can in the two hours to you . |