Example sentences of "[Wh det] he [vb mod] [vb infin] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes , another dealer tipped off a director as to the identities of miscreants , so as to curry favour for which he might reap a tangible reward like extra leads . |
| 2 | They had come , they said , to take Klein to lunch and to have a friendly discussion about a matter in which he might have a mutual interest . |
| 3 | Terry B says it 's great to be back and he 's heard there 's a race for the over fifties which he may have a go at … he 's getting itchy feet and will soon be back riding for trainers … he 's also got his old job back as a steward at Worcester races and his public still love him |
| 4 | Thus the composition was blocked in on a warm basis , over which he would lay a series of glazes . |
| 5 | Moreover , he did not envisage any circumstances in which he would exercise a right to intervene . |
| 6 | Scrutton L.J. , at p. 67 , said that the payment was demanded by the Shipping Controller colore officii , as one of the only terms on which he would grant a licence for the transfer , and he quoted Abbott C.J. and Littledale J. in Morgan v. Palmer , 2 B. & C. 729 . |
| 7 | Back in the studio , he would cover his canvas with a white ground , over which he would make a precise underdrawing in sepia . |
| 8 | His first round at St Andrews , on which he would score an honourable 83 , was nearly over . |
| 9 | Dworkin himself suggests that no one has an individual right to have enforced all the laws of the nation , only those which he would have a right to have enacted if they were not already law . |
| 10 | A week later , Warren Beatty grabbed him for the role of Clyde 's brother Buck in Bonnie and Clyde , for which he would gain an Oscar nomination . |
| 11 | Certainly the picture of him during this period is of a man haunted by guilt and remorse ; it seems that he felt he had no right to happiness , and the death of his wife had only served to convince him that he had done some irreparable harm to another human being , for which he must undergo a period of punishment . |
| 12 | Very broadly stated , it is a duty to treat the trespasser with ordinary humanity … the occupier is not at fault if he has done as much as is required of him , if he has taken reasonable steps to deter the trespasser from entering or remaining on the premises , or part of the premises , in which he will encounter a dangerous situation . |
| 13 | Recent press reports disclose that Wall Street investment banker Dennis Levine , recently convicted and gaoled for insider trading , has written a book entitled Inside Out : An Insider 's Account of Wall Street for which he will receive an undisclosed , but presumably large amount of money . |
| 14 | The best solution might thus be for the centre bollard to be held in place with a padlock , for which he will have a key . |
| 15 | For , hard on the heels of being asked to play in Jack Nicklaus 's Memorial Tournament in June , he has also been invited to play in the Benson & Hedges International at St Mellion , prior to which he will play a practice round with Jose Maria Olazabal , himself a former British Amateur champion . |
| 16 | The subjunctive in French allows the speaker to adopt this purely imaginary position from which he can give a verdict on whether a happening should have occurred or not . |
| 17 | From morning to dusk on all days except the Sabbath , he was out in the marketplace among the other merchants trading in any commodity with which he could make a profit , including money itself . |
| 18 | The king never turned up and the laird was left with paths on which he could hold a formula one race . |
| 19 | He was in a fix — he had bought two papers and merged them together , and I was n't around , I was in New York , and I did the logo for him in a hurry , but I did n't have time to design a newspaper , nor was it the kind of thing for which he could pay a big design fee , so he described it on the phone and then he faxed me some pages of the existing papers , and I said well what you have to do is look at the old London Times and do that . |
| 20 | He always required an underlying form from which he could then depart , just as he tended to use a literary " model " from which he could derive a manner and a tone . |
| 21 | There was no way in which he could turn a young man 's allegiance completely against his motherland in just three weeks . |
| 22 | It had become quite acceptable for such a man , in his early sixties , to shift his money to safer investments , hand over the family home next to the workplace to his son , and move into a house in the suburbs from which he could maintain a benevolent but less taxing interest in family concerns . |
| 23 | Many commentators interpreted his decision to run for the council as a means of preserving his extensive political machine while also providing a platform within the city government from which he could launch a future mayoral bid . |
| 24 | He gestured around at the conglomeration of abandoned implements , hardly any of which he could put a name on . |
| 25 | Johnson , however , fully aware of the likely number of biographers he might attract before and after his death , found here a biography in which he could have a say , thus not only securing his immortality , but controlling it . |
| 26 | Sir : Shabbir Akhtar ( 10 October ) himself makes what he might call a pardonable error in thinking that to liberals — genuine ones , not the compromisers so regretfully limned in John Torode 's article ( 3 October ) - freedom of speech is an absolute value . |
| 27 | They earn in a year what he 'd pay a French worker in a month . |
| 28 | Indeed , modesty forbade him to contemplate too long what he could count a personal success . |