Example sentences of "[num] [noun sg] he [modal v] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before she had finished one job he would call through the open doorway , ‘ Merrill , come and take a look at this , will you ? ’ |
| 2 | " He used to travel in prahus as a young man , then a guru told him that one day he would die by water . |
| 3 | And Ruth felt she had n't understood till now what it meant , to be Jake 's daughter ; she 'd never guessed that one day he would turn to her like this , calling her to understand all the past and set her own strength beside his . |
| 4 | One day he would fly to it , and beyond , over the sea . |
| 5 | In these past two years and more , since Matthew had been employed with David , distancing himself from the old man and returning to the family fold , Beth had never stopped hoping that one day he might turn to her with affection . |
| 6 | Don has made the trip from Hereford to Romania 4 times now and he 'll continue his visits in the hope that one day he can leave behind a modern farming system which will bring Moldavia into the twentieth century . |
| 7 | He believes that one day he will prove to be the stronger , and for that reason , if for no other , he will never resist when I call to him . |
| 8 | Perhaps one day he will turn to a woman who can see , live the life he wants , share things . |
| 9 | On the one hand he must cope with routines where the demand is for precise obedience to established instructions and on the other hand he might suddenly be faced with a need to respond in a creative manner totally outside any instructions . |
| 10 | ‘ The cv stuff he could get from Crockford . |