Example sentences of "he [modal v] [verb] [vb pp] his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He may have owed his entry into royal service to Robert de Tibetot ( or Tiptoft ) [ q.v. ] , whom he represented when Robert went on crusade with the future Edward I in 1270 . |
| 2 | He may have made his name with a story from British history , but that was simply calculated opportunism as he showed by following with similar , though less amusing and successful , treatments of the lives of Catherine the Great ( 1934 ) and Rembrandt ( 1936 ) . |
| 3 | One of the engineers has fallen , and it sounds as if he may have broken his leg . |
| 4 | He knew that he was accused of indecisiveness and vacillation ( that is what Hamlet means to Italians ) and seems to have felt he may have broken his lance on windmills ( that is what Don Quixote means ) . |
| 5 | He may have constructed his Cabinet a little amiss , but he had constructed his power-base superbly . |
| 6 | He may have lost his life but he saved somebody else . |
| 7 | He may have frittered his time away in constructing etymologies and writing kindly letters to strangers . |
| 8 | From France he went to the Alps and Italy , and in 1870–1 he made his first visit to America , where he may have encountered his father , as well as many unfamiliar trees and shrubs . |
| 9 | But he may have taken his reference from an even earlier source . |
| 10 | ‘ He may have taken his life after hearing about the death of the family . ’ |
| 11 | He may have had his tongue firmly planted in his cheek , but there is something rather wonderful about American place names . |
| 12 | A great looker , and he may have shown his admiration because she had ducked her dark head in mock embarrassment and given him the slowest smile as she had moved away . |
| 13 | Collins ' form has been as stable as his club 's progress has been erratic this season and the player feels he should have represented his country more often than he has done . |
| 14 | ‘ He should have called his paper ‘ Why I am a great critic ’ , a disciple sadly remarked on leaving one of his seminars . |
| 15 | If Tebbit wished to attack bias as such he should have directed his criticism at the press rather than television . |
| 16 | Perhaps he should have directed his appeal directly to honest John sitting opposite me on the Treasury Bench , who may well be able to persuade his fellow member of Cabinet that he should |
| 17 | Norman 's seven-birdie course record gave him a one-shot lead playing the 18th , but he should have known his chance had gone with Faldo having won two Augusta titles in extra time . |
| 18 | He 's there , still curled up and still secured by the tape , but he must have wriggled his way through to here while you were down in the cellar ; he 's knocked over a table with the phone on it and he 's just turning the phone the right way up as you enter the lounge and see him . |
| 19 | Then he must have seen his father and the cart because the next thing anyone knew , he was through that gate and across — and that 's when he went right under the 5.29 . ’ |
| 20 | He must have hit his head for it killed him . |
| 21 | Murray 's apparently effortless escape has caused fury in Australia where there have been claims he must have bribed his way to a low security catagorization |
| 22 | He must have bought his house off her remotely . |
| 23 | ‘ He must have read his name in the German papers , unless he 's crackers . |
| 24 | His voice became slightly fainter and more echoey ; he must have taken his mouth away from the handset . |
| 25 | I arrived back in time to pipe out the Brigadier , and judging by his jovial manner he must have enjoyed his meal . |
| 26 | We believe that no one should be found guilty of a crime unless the statute or other piece of legislation establishing that crime is so clear that he must have known his act was criminal , or would have known if he had made any serious attempt to discover whether it was . |
| 27 | Then he must have changed his mind . |
| 28 | and he 'll have changed his mind , and he 'll say |
| 29 | William Berkeley , William Ovedale and Roger Kelsale were made responsible for victualling the ships , and were also authorized to receive all those prepared to make their peace with the new regime except Woodville himself , Dorset ( the only indication that he might have joined his uncle ) and Robert Ratcliffe , a former associate of Rivers at Calais . |
| 30 | William Berkeley , William Ovedale and Roger Kelsale were made responsible for victualling the ships , and were also authorized to receive all those prepared to make their peace with the new regime except Woodville himself , Dorset ( the only indication that he might have joined his uncle ) and Robert Ratcliffe , a former associate of Rivers at Calais . |