Example sentences of "he [vb mod] [prep] [art] " 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 | The house surgeon should be constantly resident in the infirmary and he should on no account be allowed to practise outside ; his was the only salaried medical post . |
| 3 | Now that I 'd definitely decided to welcome the baby , I 'd have to start planning with a bit more efficiency than in the past , when , so far as one could see , I had been working vaguely on the basis that God would provide ; and why the hell He should in a case like this was probably more than even the most devout believer could have told me . |
| 4 | Julia wondered if he would gallop her : surely he must for a hunter class . |
| 5 | He must on no account be seen by the neighbours . |
| 6 | He must worth a fortune then , Marg ? |
| 7 | He must in the end get his man , and do it in a way the reader will find credible . |
| 8 | On 10 May 1794 , Huntingford wrote to the Speaker of the House of Commons ( who had himself been elected a vice-president of the College ) as follows : ‘ Honble Sir , I should not have taken the liberty of troubling you on the subject of the Veterinary College did not the recent business of Wm Stone who stands charged with High Treason prove the cause of his exerting himself to my prejudice in favor of M Vial the late Professor , to be that he might establish a French Connection in that Institution in order that he might through the channel carry on his correspondence with the enemy . |
| 9 | My friend is not simply explaining why , for good or bad reasons , he did decide to go to the Park ( as he might after the event , in which case it would be no objection to his explanation that when he got there the zoo turned out to be closed ) ; he is defending his decision to go to the Park rather than meet me at his house , and I can still try to change his mind . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He did n't seem as elated as he might by the idea . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Theda took Hector to the kitchen and left him with Mrs Elswick to do what he might in the way of cajolery , for she had several morsels of interest to his ever ready stomach , and Theda was obviously not going to take him outside . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He told Nikos and Georgiades as much as he could about the current political log-jam , leaving out the Patros bit . |
| 16 | they asked him to remember all the things he could about the trip from earth . |
| 17 | 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 . ’ |
| 18 | He escaped as soon as he could to the company of her brothers . |
| 19 | He would have to wait , and until then he would keep as close as he could to the Russian . |
| 20 | A protesting Maltote was roused and ordered to ride as fast as he could to the royal camp outside Bedford . |
| 21 | Among the gentry residing there was to be found Mr Benedict Beckenham , riding as hard as he could to the devil . |
| 22 | Those who talked to Harold Macmillan at this time were sure that this cold politicking did not enter his head ; that he was sincere and only wanted to do the best that he could for the Church . |
| 23 | His energy revived , Richard was now intent on keeping Victoria 's company as much to himself as he could for the rest of the day . |
| 24 | He had groomed himself as best as he could for the interview . |
| 25 | He failed to do all he could for the Jews and socialised with the Nazis too easily for the Poles ' liking . |
| 26 | Using highly mobile soldiers to avoid battle , Bruce used the physical geography of Scotland to make conditions as difficult as he could for the English who , risking starvation and ambush , had to be very careful not to overstretch themselves and to keep open their lines of communication as best they could through the control of castles , in particular the vital one at Stirling , which dominated the lowest point at which the river Forth could be crossed by bridge . |
| 27 | He thought he had got all he could for the time being . |
| 28 | He made as swiftly as he could for the foyer . |
| 29 | He says in the autobiography erm my view was that every president was a and this was a famous phrase every president was a steward of the people , a steward of the people , bound actively and affirmatively to do all he could for the people and not to content himself with the negative merit of keeping his talents undamaged in a napkin curious turn of phrase I decline he says to adopt the view that what is imperatively necessary for the nation can not be done unless the president can find some specific authorization to do it in the constitution . |
| 30 | They would shake their empty hands over a barrel lined with tinfoil , from which he could at a later date draw out benison . |